The Ozark School District is on the fast track to begin indoctrination of its students with the United Nation's radical arm known as UNESCO's International Baccalaureate (IB). The IB promotes Marxist ideas like the redistribution of wealth, radical environmentalism, denouncing Constitutional rights and Christianity, while pushing for global government by teaching students to become good "globalists." Master Sgt. Ronnie White (ret) who now teaches JROTC at Ozark High Schools contacted Billy Long's office earlier today in hopes Congressman Long would live up to his promises of promoting Southwest Missouri conservative values constitutional ideas in hopes he would show some leadership to help expose the IB agenda.
White wrote the following letter to Congressman Long:
Congressman Billy Long April 3, 2011
I understand being a new person in Congress is a very busy time but this is my second email on this subject. I hope to receive a response.
I want to bring to your attention a program that is spreading across Missouri and the Nation. It is known as the International Baccalaureate Program or IB. Please become informed about this program, it is not what administrators and supporters of the program say it is. This program will show up unannounced at a board meeting.
Let me introduce myself and tell you about my experience. My Name is Ronnie L White, Master Sergeant, Retired, United States Army (21 years Active Duty Service). I am currently a Junior ROTC Instructor at Ozark High School, Ozark, MO
On September 16th 2010 at the monthly school board meeting, our high school principal Dr. Sam Taylor presented a short briefing to the school board about the IB program. He stated he thought it would be a great program for the top tier students at the high school to better prepare these students for college and it would cost considerable money.
At this same meeting under new business the board made a motion to apply for the program, it was seconded and the board voted 7/0 to apply for the program. No discussion, no input from the public, and very little input from the teachers. This vote came after the district had cut teachers pay ($5000.00 in most cases) at the end of the 2009-10 school year and placed a hiring freeze for this school year.
All activity funds were returned to the district and all of this due to the cut in State funding. I found it odd that we would want to spend money on an International curriculum. So I asked about the program. The Superintendent referred me to Dr. Taylor who told me it was a program to help our top students to be better prepared for college. I asked how much it would cost and he had no estimate at that time.
So I started my research. I went to IBO.org and found that it was going to cost $9,500 just to pay the first part of the application (Application A.) Then if approved (which no school has ever been turned down) $4000 for an IB consultant. Then another $9,500 for Application B. We also have to hire a full time IB coordinator at $40,000 a year and we must pay $10,000 annually to be a member of the IBO. This angered me. I also found out that IBO required a feasibility study before the application was submitted. That did not happen and when the school board was asked about this issue they knew nothing of it. The school board even admits that it formed no formal committee to investigate this program. They want it, they will get it! Even though it will cost the taxpayers upwards of six figures annually for approximately 10 to 15 students!
A little history about IB. The IBO officially formed in 1968 to serve the children of United Nations diplomats who traveled around the globe and were in need of a recognizable standard for admission into Universities. According to former IBO Director General George Walker, the intellectual process which would culminate in the IB Diploma Program was begun by Marie-Therese Maurette in 1948 when she wrote a paper for UNESCO (United Nations Education Science and Cultural Organization) called "Ways for educating for peace: do they exist?" Maurette had outlined a program and pedagogy, which included the following elements:
* Geography should be taught starting not with the student's country or origin but with the whole world.
• History should not be taught before the age of 12 to avoid it becoming a catalogue of national heroes and patriotic celebrations. When introduced it must be world history.
• Each week there should be an hour's lesson of "national culture" taught to classes divided into small national groups, but this will be deliberately subordinated to international geography and history.
• Promotion of bilinguals.
• Regular debates should encourage students to think about world affairs.
• Students should be required to take part in sports, community service and in the life of the school.
According to Ian Hill, Deputy Director General of IBO, "The primary goal of IBO is the promotion of world citizenship"
Time and space will not allow me to tell everything I have learned about this International takeover of our public school system, but I do want to share with you a very important link for you to start your research, If you find this to be important. Please visit www.truthaboutib.com
Lisa McLoughlin established this web site through her dealings with IB within her school district. She also has links to pro IB information. I ask you as my Representative to research this subject. If you feel as I do that this is an un-American curriculum and an attempt by progressives to indoctrinate our children to the; United Nations Human Rights Agenda, the Earth Charter, Agenda 21, and Secular Humanism. Then I would ask you to put a stop to the promotion and funding of IB at the National level and speak out against it in the 7th District. Let school boards in the 7th District know that you do not support such internationally controlled programs in Missouri!
If you would like to be added to my email list "Doubt IB" to keep track of the events here in Ozark please let me know via email. We need to stop this United Nations Take over of our public school system.
V/R
Ronnie L White
MSG (Ret), USA
I understand being a new person in Congress is a very busy time but this is my second email on this subject. I hope to receive a response.
I want to bring to your attention a program that is spreading across Missouri and the Nation. It is known as the International Baccalaureate Program or IB. Please become informed about this program, it is not what administrators and supporters of the program say it is. This program will show up unannounced at a board meeting.
Let me introduce myself and tell you about my experience. My Name is Ronnie L White, Master Sergeant, Retired, United States Army (21 years Active Duty Service). I am currently a Junior ROTC Instructor at Ozark High School, Ozark, MO
On September 16th 2010 at the monthly school board meeting, our high school principal Dr. Sam Taylor presented a short briefing to the school board about the IB program. He stated he thought it would be a great program for the top tier students at the high school to better prepare these students for college and it would cost considerable money.
At this same meeting under new business the board made a motion to apply for the program, it was seconded and the board voted 7/0 to apply for the program. No discussion, no input from the public, and very little input from the teachers. This vote came after the district had cut teachers pay ($5000.00 in most cases) at the end of the 2009-10 school year and placed a hiring freeze for this school year.
All activity funds were returned to the district and all of this due to the cut in State funding. I found it odd that we would want to spend money on an International curriculum. So I asked about the program. The Superintendent referred me to Dr. Taylor who told me it was a program to help our top students to be better prepared for college. I asked how much it would cost and he had no estimate at that time.
So I started my research. I went to IBO.org and found that it was going to cost $9,500 just to pay the first part of the application (Application A.) Then if approved (which no school has ever been turned down) $4000 for an IB consultant. Then another $9,500 for Application B. We also have to hire a full time IB coordinator at $40,000 a year and we must pay $10,000 annually to be a member of the IBO. This angered me. I also found out that IBO required a feasibility study before the application was submitted. That did not happen and when the school board was asked about this issue they knew nothing of it. The school board even admits that it formed no formal committee to investigate this program. They want it, they will get it! Even though it will cost the taxpayers upwards of six figures annually for approximately 10 to 15 students!
A little history about IB. The IBO officially formed in 1968 to serve the children of United Nations diplomats who traveled around the globe and were in need of a recognizable standard for admission into Universities. According to former IBO Director General George Walker, the intellectual process which would culminate in the IB Diploma Program was begun by Marie-Therese Maurette in 1948 when she wrote a paper for UNESCO (United Nations Education Science and Cultural Organization) called "Ways for educating for peace: do they exist?" Maurette had outlined a program and pedagogy, which included the following elements:
* Geography should be taught starting not with the student's country or origin but with the whole world.
• History should not be taught before the age of 12 to avoid it becoming a catalogue of national heroes and patriotic celebrations. When introduced it must be world history.
• Each week there should be an hour's lesson of "national culture" taught to classes divided into small national groups, but this will be deliberately subordinated to international geography and history.
• Promotion of bilinguals.
• Regular debates should encourage students to think about world affairs.
• Students should be required to take part in sports, community service and in the life of the school.
According to Ian Hill, Deputy Director General of IBO, "The primary goal of IBO is the promotion of world citizenship"
Time and space will not allow me to tell everything I have learned about this International takeover of our public school system, but I do want to share with you a very important link for you to start your research, If you find this to be important. Please visit www.truthaboutib.com
Lisa McLoughlin established this web site through her dealings with IB within her school district. She also has links to pro IB information. I ask you as my Representative to research this subject. If you feel as I do that this is an un-American curriculum and an attempt by progressives to indoctrinate our children to the; United Nations Human Rights Agenda, the Earth Charter, Agenda 21, and Secular Humanism. Then I would ask you to put a stop to the promotion and funding of IB at the National level and speak out against it in the 7th District. Let school boards in the 7th District know that you do not support such internationally controlled programs in Missouri!
If you would like to be added to my email list "Doubt IB" to keep track of the events here in Ozark please let me know via email. We need to stop this United Nations Take over of our public school system.
V/R
Ronnie L White
MSG (Ret), USA
Long replied to MSG White's letter failing to take a stand despite making all sorts of promises including the promise to stand up for Southwest Missouri values. Clearly redistribution of wealth, radical left-wing environmentalism, and attacks on the Second Amendment in the backyard of Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World is not the values we share in Southwest Missouri. By the way, it should be noted other opponents of IB who sent Congressman Long a letter expressing their IB concerns were sent the same form letter that MSG White received.
Dear MSG White,
Thank you for contacting me regarding education and the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). I appreciate the benefit of your views.
The IBO was founded in 1968 to offer educational opportunities across international borders. The program encourages international-mindedness through the promotion of secondary language development, positive attitudes toward learning, and stresses the need for children to develop research, critical thinking, and reflection skills. IBO reaches around 930,000 students in 141 nations.
America's education system does not currently meet the standards that we demand and expect for our children. Our schools should be developing young minds in foundational disciplines such as mathematics, science, English, and history. These areas of learning are important for a child's future happiness by allowing them to successfully integrate as a productive member of society. Our schools should promote our unique American culture which unites us all on the basis of a shared ideology of personal liberty, economic freedom, and equality before the law. America's children should be able to stand firmly on the traditions and knowledge of our past as they shape a bright future for our nation.
However, I also believe that control over our children's education should be in the hands of local parents and teachers. A one-size fits all education program handed down by federal bureaucrats or Congressional decree will never succeed in providing the kind of education that our children need. The educational needs of a child in the Missouri's Seventh District are not the same as the needs of a child in New York or California. Whether IBO's curriculum is taught in our local schools is an issue that should be left up to the local School Board and individual parents, not Members of Congress.
Again, thank you for contacting me on this issue. Hearing the views of all Missourians gives me the opportunity to better understand how important issues could impact the people of our state and the future interests of the nation. I will closely monitor this issue if it comes before the U.S. House of Representative and in that context your views are very helpful.
For additional information regarding current legislation and my representation of the Seventh District, I invite you to visit my website at http://www.long.house.gov.
Sincerely,
Billy Long
Member of Congress
MSG White, who gave over 20 years of service to this country in the United States Army was less than impressed with Long's response. So he replied to the Congressman Long's response.
April 24, 2011
Representative Billy Long,
This letter is addressed to Representative Long. It is my hope that his staff places it in his hands to read. I can not I appreciate your response to my contacting you about the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). Why you ask? Because your response was a form letter or automatic response on the subject that you also sent to another 7th District Constituent, Mr. Rod Hunt. I would prefer that you address my concerns personally, as my Representative. If you can not do so, then simply inform me that you have no time for my concern or me. At least that would be honest, instead of trying to play both sides of the fence. Let me explain what I mean by playing both sides of the fence.
In the first paragraph you try to inform me as to what the IBO is all about! A little presumptuous on your part, seeing how I have been researching IB for sometime now and you and your staff probably had never heard of the program until I contacted you. The first paragraph is right out of the IBO playbook for supporters of the program. So from this paragraph I ascertain that you believe IB is a fine program for American Schools if that is what parents and teachers want no matter the cost or the ideology.
In the second paragraph you state that “America’s education system does not currently meet the standards that we demand and expect of our children.” First of all who is “we?” I must assume you mean Congress. Which standards are not being met Federal, State, Local? Ozark High School’s Annual Yearly Performance evaluation (State Standards) for School Year ending 2010 accomplished the following:
* 94.5 % attendance
* 92 % graduation rate, State average 85.7 %
* 0.7 % drop out rate
* 39.7 % of graduating seniors entered a 4 year college
* 31.1 % of graduating seniors entered a 2 year college
* 87.7 % placement of career-technical education students
* 23.9 was the composite ACT score, with 50.4 % of graduates taking the ACT
The Annual Proficiency Target in Communication Arts was set by the State at 67.4; Ozark High School exceeded that with their proficiency rating of 80.8, with the State average being 53.6
The Annual Proficiency Target for Mathematics was set by the State at 63.3; Ozark High School exceeded that with their proficiency rating of 73.6, with the State average being 52.7
So your blanket statement doesn’t fit Ozark High School. All State standards were met or exceeded.
You also state that “Our schools should promote our unique American culture which unites us all on the basis of a shared ideology of personal liberty, economic freedom, and equality before the law. America’s children should be able to stand firmly on the traditions and knowledge of our past as they shape a bright future for our nation.” These two sentences are the evidence that you or your aids conducted no researched on IBO. Just a short preview of the IBO web site or the truthaboutib.com web site would have shown you that IBO’s intentions are all global! IBO wants to develop International mindedness and global citizens not Americanism! When you say equality before the law, which law are you referring to? Those espoused by the United Nations through IB or the U.S. Constitution? What should Americans look forward to, their rights guaranteed in the Constitution or the United Nations Human Rights Agenda? In September 2005 at the Biennial Conference of IB Nordic Schools held in Stockholm, Sweden, IBO’s George Walker presented Marie-Therese Maurette (Director of the International School of Geneva 1948) ideas on International education. Mr. Walker stressed “Maurette …urges teachers to play down the whole concept of nationality, either as a source of pride or of pity. Let’s avoid all sentimentality, she says. She then argues the case for a new kind of geography which puts students into contact with the whole world before they ever see a map of their own country.” She had equally radical ideas about history which, she insisted, should not be taught before age 12 if it was to avoid becoming a gallery of dubious national heroes. I don’t believe our history to be full of dubious national heroes, do you? All I can say is if you support this program at any level, this is what you will be supporting.
In your third paragraph you state “ I also believe that control over our children’s education should be in the hands of local parents and teachers. A one-size fits all education program handed down by federal bureaucrats or congressional decree will never succeed in providing the kind of education that our children need.” But yet you think it is all right if an International education program that supports the United Nations Human Rights Agenda, the Earth Charter, Secular Humanism as a religion and UN Agenda 21 is all right at the local level. Even if it is forced on district patrons at the behest of a school board with patrons in disagreement with that choice!
You have not appeased me, nor will I allow you to sweep me under the carpet! I will continue to take the Ozark School Board to task on this issue and you as well, seeing how it is fast becoming a national issue. The Department of Education supports IB and has allocated millions of dollars for implementation. One of your platform agendas was to do away with this department and return education to local control. Local control is handed over to International bodies with the IBO. This is an opportunity to take the Department of Education to task! This would be substantial legislation unlike NASCAR, Auctioneers and Golf. You would do well to have your staff research the IBO, it’s cost to local school districts, states and the nation, as well as it’s real mission! It is outrageous that our National Representatives are not informed on this issue!
“A politician can afford to lose if he/she deserves to win, better than a politician can afford to win if he/she deserve to loose.” Harry Atwood
Respectfully,
Ronnie L White
MSG (Ret), USA
Obviously, when you read MSG White's well though out letters to Congressman Long, you see why every America loving parent in Ozark and Southwest Missouri should be concerned about the United Nations getting a foothold in our public schools, yet Congressman Long seems the least little bit concerned despite promising Southwest Missouri he would fight to return local control to schools at an Ozark Chamber of Commerce forum, and the fact Long claims to oppose the Obama agenda. In case you are unaware, this push for the IB comes from Obama's roots as a community organizer that was taken to a much larger scale through Obama stimulus funds.
Despite the promise that Billy Long will stand up for our values...
That's right, Billy Long said he was fed up of the liberals attacks on our values, but given the chance to fight this attack on our values, Congressman Billy Long sends a forum letter to multiple members of the community who are worried the UN's liberal values will soon indoctrinate our students in Ozark.
To this day, MSG White has not heard anything else from Billy Long.
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