It Could Only Be America...

I bring you the single best reason yet not to study TOK:

In response to the teaching of epistemology -
"As such, IB is hostile to the foundational principles of the United States. Our Declaration of Independences [sic] says, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident'. One of the foundational pillars of the United States is recognition of objective truth, real truth. IB undermines this principle and aggressively teaches the contrary view."


Oh Alec Peterson, how could you!

The full articles are here:
http://www.edwatch.org/updates07/021907-terror.htm
and
http://www.edwatch.org/updates06/040706-IBaq.htm

Charmingly entitled "Terrorism as Taught by International Baccalaureate" and "Why International Baccalaureate (IB) is Un-American" respectively, they make a very compelling case against offering the IB. For example, the program must be discontinued because "the IBO promotes the worldview of New Age-Pantheism Guru William Butler Yeats", and therefore "the IBO--UN view is the foundation of tyranny." Q.E.D.

I've heard him called many things, but I think that really takes the cake (and the metaphorical candles, the table, and perhaps the little plastic bride figurine too!)

I don't know which is worse: that the articles are written by 2 college professors of Political Science, or that some high schools actually agreed and it took an ACLU lawsuit for them to reinstate the program (http://www.aclupa.org/legal/legaldocket/bendavupperstclairschooldi.html)

Yes, the ACLU. If nothing else, our pantheistic gods must have a sense of humour, and of irony.

- Aristoitle



(Come to think of it, if any of this were true, my TOK essay might just make me a paragon of traditional American values. Green card here I come!)