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Fundamentalist Christians have found a new way to make our children stupider. They are attacking the International Baccalaureate program for High School students.
Why?
"Critics... have argued that IB's multicultural themes promote values that conflict with traditional Judeo-Christian values. Some opponents have called it Marxist because the International Baccalaureate Organization is a signatory to the Earth Charter, a collection of global principles created in France in 2000.
Last year, two school board members in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka unsuccessfully pushed to get rid of IB because they said it was anti-American and anti-Christian."
Why?
"Critics... have argued that IB's multicultural themes promote values that conflict with traditional Judeo-Christian values. Some opponents have called it Marxist because the International Baccalaureate Organization is a signatory to the Earth Charter, a collection of global principles created in France in 2000.
Last year, two school board members in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka unsuccessfully pushed to get rid of IB because they said it was anti-American and anti-Christian."
posted by Will at 1:05 PM
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Holy moly! Can these people get any weirder? Next they'll accusing the Advanced Placement program of being irreligious because there's no AP Christianity syllabus or ID included in the AP Bio syllabus.
No, wait, they could do that ... Oh, crap.
Seriously, these folks just seem to be the very exemplars of anti-intellectualism. The IB program is one of best, most rigourous secondary programs in the world. Graduating with an IB diploma virtually guarantees entrance into tertiary education worldwide. Not only does IB expect students to learn content, it also expects them synthesize and analyze that content.
Exactly what dogmatists hate to see.
I delved into the whole anti-IB thing today, and published a long post about it on my site. Check it out.
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