From: dlhanson@nap.amoco.com (David L. Hanson )
Newsgroups: misc.education
Subject: Re: Soliciting comments on outcomes-based education
Keywords: proposed outcomes, ways to use same
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:46:17 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: These are my opinions.

In article <3742@ceylon.gte.com> rv01@harvey.gte.com (Robert Virzi) writes:

>I am working within an organization in my local public school that
>has decided to work on a plan for Outcomes-based education.  As you
>might expect, we have drafted a set of outcomes for students in the
>school.  I would like to solicit comments on two issues: (1) The
>specific set of outcomes we have settled on, and (2) Ways to use these
>outcomes to enhance education for the children in our schools.
>
>Some background may be in order.  These outcomes are intended for a
>public school system in a fairly small, quasi-rural community in MA.
>Elementary and middle school class sizes are approximately 100 students,
>with a drop off in the high school class size to around 60 students.
>In the past ten years the community has grown dramatically, becoming
>more and more a bedroom community for Boston and surrounds.  Drugs are 
>not really a problem, and a majority of the recent graduates have been
>college bound.
>
>
>So there you have it, the culmination of a year's worth of research and
>discussion.  We are working to get broad support for the outcomes
>in the schools and in the community.  I'd like some net.wisdom on the
>outcomes-based approach.  Has anyone else tried this?  What were the
>results?  Given a set of outcomes, how can/were they used?  What should
>we watch out for?
>
>Basically, any opinions would be appreciated.  Thanks.
>

My opinion is that outcomes-based education is just a fancy way of
hiding the fact that a Communist style indoctrination camp has been
setup (aka as the public school).   

I don't believe that a state school is the place for any child but for those
that subject their children to the state, it should be a place to transfer
knowledge.  It is NOT, NOT, NOT the place for values and morality to be
imparted to the children.  That is solely and ONLY the business of the 
family and the church. My children are now home schooled but when they
were in the public school, we did NOT send them there to be indoctrinated
in environmentalism, in femanism, in socialism, in humanism, and every
other kind of -ism that the socialists running the Schools of Education
can dream up. (The -ism's seem to be the current focus in our white suburban
school district.)

  We sent them there to learn how to spell, to learn how
to read, to learn about American History, to learn math skills and 
reasoning, to write clearly and effectively, etc.  All of which the
public schools that they are either incapable or terrible at doing.


David L. Hanson
"Jesus saith unto him, I am THE way, THE truth, and THE life:  NO MAN
cometh unto the Father BUT BY ME" John 14:6

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