The International Baccalaureate Organization aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the IBO works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
[end mission statement]
I draw your attention to the last line: " ...other people, with their differences, can also be right."
It seems some have a need, a calling, to grind down these excellent programs and turn them into a fine powder to be blown away by a scorching wind from starboard.
God, it gets tiring.
My daughter is in the IB program at Anwatin. She will remain in the program as long as she wishes and as long as she does the work.
I like it. So does her mother, the special ed teacher. So does her uncle, the professor. And her aunt, the university admissions counselor. And her other aunt, the stock broker, who has raised my nephew to be an excellent student, too. Together, a political potpourri, united in our love of education.
Keith Nybakke
Nokomis East
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