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Legislators to probe schools' IB program
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I have no doubt that Margaret Dayton would be happy as a clam if we were to replace the IB program with a certain type of religious indoctrination. This woman is in the same sad group that includes Sen. Buttars and Gayle Ruzicka - a group not unlike the Taliban.
I guess we should all just learn to "baaaaaa" and be complacent with an educational system where sports are everything (not that sports are bad, they just shouldn't be the only option) and students who find interest in more intellectual activities are stifled and stuffed in the corner to be forgotten about.
Stupid legislators like Dayton and Buttars and their Puppet Master Gayle Ruzika should be ashamed of the Nazi conformism propoganda they spread under the guise of morality and religion.
VOTE THEM OUT!!!!!!
This tops all of the lame things our legislature has done to public education in the last 50 years.
1. School Vouchers
2. Reducing the requirements for splitting of school districts without outlyning how said splits were to occur
3. 3.5 million allocated for Pre-school computer software program
4. Rejection of seismic study for all public school buildings because if they found the schools were unsafe they'd actually have to pay to get them made safe. (considering the tragedy of all those schools collapsing in China, more Utahns should be outraged by this indisgression).
5. Appointing people such as Howard Stephenson and Margret Dayton over the education committee for the state.
Don't you have anything else better to fret about?
This Ms. Dayton needs to get out of Provo (BYU) and see the world.
It is comments from American's like this that make me wonder what is going to happened in the USA and I am glad to know all the American students we know who have excelled in the IB program and know they will be "our" American leaders.
You hit it on the head. Dayton and Stephenson do not want future leaders or educated people who may take their jobs. The IB program is a threat to their livlihood.
All the diminutive statements related to Dayton seem like the talk of a village mob with torches. Anyone who is against investigating the proper legal role of a curriculum should ask why they are willing to suspend the rule of law. Anyone who thinks that they have already found the best thing, and no further search is necessary, should also be questioned.
A lot of money is spent on the IB curriculum. It is not at all inappropriate for a state legislator to ask if the money is spent effectively and legally.
It was Stephenson and Dayton who killed IB in committee along with a third (who I can't remember). Stephenson's reasoning was to get hi Preschool software. I don't know what Dayton had to gain but she isn't representing those who voted for her either.
Overall, I have been disappointed in the lack of intelligent comment here at the Deseret News on all levels. I have studied the philosophical foundations of the IB, its history, its founders' politics and speeches of its current leaders and their political views. In addition the research that does not justify the extraordinary cost.
I encourage all who have commented here to do a little primary source research. There have been several comments that show absolute ignorance of the topic. These arguments are based solely on emotion and have no standing.
I am equally concerned that the journalistic reporting of this subject in this newspaper has been so superficial and at times fictitious.
It appears that Senator Dayton and Senator Stephenson are among the few that have investigated this curriculum. I would hope that others will follow suit.
Cherilyn Bacon Eagar
World Class Education Research
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These articles repeatedly fail to point out that these kids are not just being 'exposed to a world view' but they are being taught that American exceptionalism is bad... by way of implications of the curriculum.
They have had kids marching in the streets with anti-war signs, and doing whole projects based on the false premise that global warming is caused by our breathing. (I suppose this is right in line with the fact that the UN's population control goals are to get rid of 3/4 of us!)
It's one thing to learn about other cultures, but do we want to be governed by a world body that fancies itself a supra-national authority over our Constitution and Bill of Rights?
I KNOW I DON'T.
This program seeks to use our children for political pawns and make little leftist activists out of them. The mission statement is pretty clear about that.
The parents who are pushing for this do not have a brain in their heads I guess.