Please help remove IB from public schools across the country by signing
this petition. IB, short for the International Baccalaureate, is a
non governmental organization of UNESCO with headquarters located in
Geneva, Switzerland. IBO not only teaches its own worldview, it simultaneously
undermines the beliefs and values of the United States (also called the
"American creed"). The IB organization has 3 programs for children
age 3-19 which are primarily funded in the United States by taxpayer
dollars. IB is proprietary, outrageously expensive, promotes "global
citizenship" and "internationalmindedness" while attempting to
undermine national sovereignty. Please help restore quality education
by removing the IB programs from our public schools. IB has a political
agenda for global "social justice" and radical environmentalism, in
other words, "redistribution of wealth".
The biggest difference between the American Creed and that of
IB-UNESCO, however, is this: Our Declaration of Independence states
that government exists to protect the God-given, inalienable rights of
all persons. The Tenth Amendment to our Constitution restates the same
doctrine as follows: "The powers not delegated to the United States by
the Constitution are reserved to the states respectively, or to the
people." That is, human rights belong to the people, and government has
only those rights given it by the people. Our rights have higher
standing than government.
The UN and IBO, in contrast, subscribe to the exact opposite view of human rights. The UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights [UDHR]
says: "These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary
to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."[UDHR, Paragraph
29, Article 3]
This means that under the UDHR, people have only those rights
the UN says they have. But under the U.S. Bill of Rights, government
has only those rights the people say it has. UN-IBO turn human rights
on its head, and it takes the same view of human rights as, for
example, the constitution of Cuba, which says that Cubans have freedom
of speechâas long as their speech conforms to the wishes of the
government of Cuba.
We, the undersigned, request Federal legislation to prohibit the expenditure of U.S. taxdollars (income and/or property taxes)on UNESCO and any of its affiliates, in particular, the International Baccalaureate Organization (IB) and IB's programs as they pertain to U.S. public schools.
We believe that IB programs are unduly expensive, foster anti-American sentiment and seek to indoctrinate American youth in order to devalue their American citizenship and undermine our sovereignty as a nation in favor of global citizenry. Public schools should be apolitical.