I always wondered what would it be like when some globalists
come and take over our Christian, dedicated homeschool community Roots. Imagine the fuss and fight, the resistance
and debate! Well, it eventually happened
last night, except there was no fuss, no fight, no debate. They came, took Roots in their system and parents were happy about that.
You see, Heritage Online School has a reassuring statement
of faith. It is a statement of faith
which appeals to a broad range of Christians.
We can see the core doctrines present, God the Triune, repentance of sin
through the blood of Christ, the resurrection and everlasting life or
damnation. That is where most homeschool
parents choose to stop thinking. If some homeschool institution or homeschool
group say they are Christian, that is enough evidence that it is good to follow
them instead of the public school system.
The governing structure of the school falls mainly under the
Ministry of Education Canada. This
ministry on it’s turn, falls under the
Council of Ministers of Education, Canada . http://www.cmec.ca/11/About/index.html It makes sure that all of “Canada’s
international treaty obligations” are seen to.
All ministers of education in Canada are coordinated by CMEC.
One of the key tasks for CMEC to do, is to make sure every
province in Canada achieve the goals set in Learn Canada 2020. Learn
Canada is written to accomplish the goals set by the United Nation’s Education
for Sustainable Development.
Sustainable Development or Agenda 21 is an absolute threat for every human being on this
planet. Sustainable Development takes
away individual rights and make place for the collective, it takes property
rights away in order to distribute wealth. Education for Sustainable
Development is an international agenda to prepare our chidren to live in a
sustainable world. It has nothing to do
with sustainability. It has all to do with a pantheistic worldview under the
Earth Charter, with a place for everyone, except the one who calls upon Christ
as only Savior.
Heritage Online School is a member of ASCI. Cardus launched an elaborate educational
study from over a million dollar in 2012.
They have used the PISA instrument, an international performance test to
investigate how wide the gaps between home/online/Christian schools and that of
ESD could be. The PISA assessment take a look at the extent to which students
acquired the outcomes to “Our Common Future”, preparing them for Sustainagle
living on the planet.
“Sustainable development and
social cohesion depend critically on the competencies of all of our population
– with competencies understood to cover knowledge, skills, attitudes and
values.” http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/esd/inf.meeting.docs/EGonInd/8mtg/ESDCompetenciesOECD.pdf This study showed where diversity in
educational delivery were. They
immediately construct courses and conventions like edifideConvention
2012-Beyond the walls in actions to life and many other educational conventions
to “rectify” the problem. The ASCI
schools under direct influence of the rectification Cardus suggested. It helped them to see how they had to change
certain courses and methods to perform on a “higher level”, meaning becoming
more gobalised in their own and student’s thinking. They provide
round-table discussions for principals, superintendents, teachers, etc. to
reshape faith and learning. ASCI is
committed to transformational schooling. What that means is that students are
taken from what and who they are in
their parent’s home and get transformed for life in the global village. Most Christian schools in the USA and Canada
fall under ASCI. These schools undergo a
massive transformation right now. One
can even wonder if their transformation for ESD would not be quicker than that
of public schools, seeing that they are much smaller and easier to control and
monitor?
Greg Bitgood is the superintendent of Heritage Online
School, the largest online school in Canada.
He is also the founder and superintendent of the massive International Online School. In addition
to that, he is one of the leading delegates of the Vancouver Christian
Education for the 21st Century.
The whole focus is that of the future . They work towards 2025 goals. The Symposium vision is to “utilize digital technologies” to cater for new
learning. A leading thinker for the
Symposium is global thinker Tom Vander Ark with his ideas on “smart
schools” Sustainable Development is
taking place under smart growth initiatives as can also seen in Vander Ark’s
works. An intense study is undertaken
in “Guide to the Future School” also from people like http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/guide-to-future-school/
Bitgood and others attending the Symposium. Global education goes under three umbrellas
as explained in this book namely virtual, theme-based and deconstructed
learning. On the surface it seems that
it is okay to participate in these but the undercurrent philosophies and
initiatives is innovative in nature, meaning transformational. The whole idea of virtual learning is to
monitor a student’s progress – forget about intellectual progress or
content-based progress- to the dot.
Outcomes for sustainable development goals are monitored way easier than
in a normal classroom setting. That is
what all schools are doing right now, they are moving away from testing and
assessment. Monitoring for key outcomes
get done right in the online classroom to see if a student seem fit to move on
to the “next level” of indoctrination for learning for the 21st
Century. They also have a special focus
on Learn 2020 http://www.21stcenturyeducators.com
to see that they accomplish the goals set as seen in Learn Canada 2020
Education for Sustainable Development http://www.esdcanada.ca/learn-canada-2020
Greg Bitgood is a
super sharp change agent and he uses his online school and gospel terms to
accomplish change for the global world.
The Global Ministry Training Centre work together with the Wagner
Institute.
The idea of globalization is to get all systems running on
the same tracks for successful implementation of “Our Common Future” That means that all splinter groups like
homeschoolers should drawn to a change agent magnet like the Heritage Online
School to make sure that homeschooler’s are as much prepared for their future
of Sustainable Development as the rest of the people around them.
The online school is meant for parents who are okay with
preparing their children for a sustainable future in the global village. However, new rules and regulations under the
Earth Charter http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/
will ensure that the whole of this global world think and speak from the same
point of view. There will be zero
tolerance for any deviation from this charter’s “soft laws”. Biblical laws in conflict with the charter will be dealt with harshly in
order to promote a peaceful, harmonious future for the 21st Century.
