Indoctrinating Our Youth

Every Student of International Baccalaureate Program Received an A-level Equivalent Grade with New Diploma System

July 8, 2010

Grimsby - Every single student who received their International Baccalaureate results at Tollbar Business and Enterprise College this week gained at least the equivalent of a D and E at A-level.

Seventy four students received their results this week – the first cohort to do so after the IB replaced traditional A-levels in September 2008. They take six individual subjects and complete a core curriculum consisting of a 4,000 word extended essay, 150 hours of creativity, action and service and a qualification in theory of knowledge.

Sixty one per cent gained the full diploma, which compares with the 60 per cent who gained the top A and B grades in their A-levels at the school last year.

As reported, some parents were disappointed their children had not gained enough points overall to achieve the full IB diploma, although they will still receive certificates for any of the six individual subjects they have passed.

A total of 31 per cent missed out on the full qualification, but they all achieved the equivalent of at least a D and E at A-level and certificates in the subjects they did pass.

They had to gain at least 24 points out of a possible 45 and meet other criteria to pass overall ...

Philip Bond, chair of governors at the school, said:

"I wish to applaud the students who received their IB results this week.

"This is a new qualification to this region and a completely different system to A-levels. Every single student who took the IB received certificates for each subject. And, although some will have to wait for final confirmation of university places, we are certain the IB will stand them in good stead for the future."

Below is an open letter from pincipal David Hampson.

As we assess the results ( just published) achieved by our first tranche of students, let me explain the IB Diploma grading system as it compares with A-Level assessment. I hope this will give a clear picture of how successful our students have been.

The table shows the number of students achieving selected points on the IB scale. The maximum number of points a student can achieve is 45 – but this is very rare across the education world.

Two of our students achieved 36 points which is the equivalent to more than four A-levels at grade A – an outstanding achievement. 100 per cent of our students (all 74) achieved the equivalent of passes at A-level and will be awarded certificates for each of their subjects. In addition to this, 61 per cent of students have been awarded the full diploma. To achieve the full diploma students must acquire a minimum of 24 points – the equivalent of three A-levels (one grade B and two C grades).

Many of our students apply to university and already a third of students have secured their first or second choice university place and the remaining students are awaiting confirmation.

The IB is a gold standard qualification which requires commitment and hard work. Students who take the IB study six subjects over two years (as opposed to the traditional three A-levels) and they also study a core curriculum which includes a 4,000 word essay, a qualification in Theory Of Knowledge and 150 hours creativity action and service, resulting in a highly regarded qualification.

The majority of our students have stated that not only have they developed academically over the course of the IB but they have also grown significantly personally as a result of studying the IB.

We are very proud of the achievements of our students.

David Hampson OBE, Principal Tollbar

Has the Time Finally Come to Stop Funding Our Own Insurrection?

May 13, 2010

sonorannews.com - MEChA clubs have infiltrated college and high school campuses from coast to coast since the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, promoting anti-white racism in favor of a “bronze continent,” while teaching Latino, Chicano or Hispanic students that assimilation into American culture, language and customs is tantamount to becoming white.

We’ve piled “Raza (Race) Studies” on top of this anti-American, anti-white agenda in our public schools, which promotes overthrow of the U.S. government and resentment against American citizens of European descent as oppressors of people of color.

In March, a group from Mesa formed the East Valley Education Action Committee (EVEAC). Only two weeks into their research, they discovered “a lot of information regarding the indoctrination of our school children through the taxpayer funded International Baccalaureate (IB) school program and the New Global Citizens (NGC) after school program.”

The EVEAC notes that the IB program promotes world citizenship; views state education standards as being subservient to the worldview of IB.

The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) endorses the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which, through that endorsement, promotes the United Nations along with actions and treaties of the United Nations, including treaties not ratified by the United States, including: Biodiversity Treaty, Treaty on the Rights of the Child, Agenda 21, Kyoto Treaty and the Treaty establishing the United Nations International Criminal Court.

According to the EVEAC, by endorsing the UDHR, IBO promotes the United Nations as being the highest court of appeals on human rights and undermines the foundation principles of the United States.

The IBO endorses the Earth Charter, also not ratified by the United States.

The Earth Charter is identified by the World Pantheist Association as a Pantheistic (worship of nature instead of God) document. Besides Pantheism, the Earth Charter advocates the redistribution of wealth between nations and within nations, same-sex marriage, spiritual education in Pantheism, military disarmament and creation of an international agency to make the Earth Charter binding on all nations.

The New Global Citizen after-school program, which has at least 12 chapters in the Phoenix Metro Area, seeks to create global leaders, change agents and Saul Alinsky styled “locally led solutions to impact change on a global scale.”

The EVEAC says the program promotes Marxism under the banner of “economic and social justice;” transformation of students via “brainwashing;” sustainable solutions for “environmental justice;” and creation of global entitlements.

Quoting from the New Global Citizen’s pitch to the Mesa Rotary Club, EVEAC wrote:

“Last Year, New Global Citizens supported 76 teams on high school campuses in over 20 states across the U.S.A. this means that through our program over 1,000 young people took action to raise $37,000 to send to grassroots organizations around the world, educate 100,000 community members about global challenges, and launch 35 advocacy initiatives to support 33 grassroots organizations in 25 countries that are on the front lines of rectifying issues related to global poverty.”

As the Arizona legislature boldly passed SB 1070 to make it a state crime to be in the country illegally, it also passed HB 2281, prohibiting public schools from including courses or classes, which promote overthrowing the U.S. government, resentment towards a race or class of people, are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic race, and advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.

The law requires districts to be in compliance within 60 days of receiving a notice of violation and allows the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) to withhold up to 10 percent of the monthly apportionment of the district’s state aide and requires the ADE to adjust the apportionment accordingly.

It allows the Superintendent of Public Instruction to withhold monies from the date of determination of noncompliance until ADE determines the school district is in compliance.
The bill also contains a declaration of policy stating public schools should teach pupils to value each other as individuals and not foster hate toward other races and classes of people.

HB 2281 was passed with a delayed effective date of Dec. 31, 2010.

Section 4 of the 14th Amendment states:

“The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.”

However, American taxpayers have been funding their own insurrection for over four decades through indoctrination disguised as education, utilizing social engineering to promote “social justice” and excluding American history and civics from the process.

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