Sen. Margie Dayton successfully cut off additional spending on the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program, universally respected by educators, because it's an "anti-American" front for world government.

"I'm opposed to the anti-American philosophy that's somehow woven into all the classes as they promote the U.N. [United Nations] agenda."

[BTW, I am not making up the above.]

Dupes like you may think Margie is an idiot*, but parents in Utah County and the Jordans are asking, "How do I know if my child has been lured into this infernal IB?"

Here are the warning signs:

• At pep rallies, your child sings "The Internationale". (MP3)
  
• His or her book bag contains but one text— a little red book.
• Instead of a bus, your student rides to school in a black helicopter.
• When you tell your daughter to be home by 10 p.m., she calls you a "paper tiger."
• Your bearded daughter takes state in the shot put.

Full disclosure: My children are products of SLC's West High School. My daughter, Kit Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Fonda Warchol participated in West's IB re-education camp. My son, Sam Douglas MacArther Goldwater Gipper Warchol, did not.

*Senators Howie Stephenson and Sen. Darin Peterson followed Margie's lead.