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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, September 19, 1993                   TAG: 9309170005
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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ACCURACY SHOULD BE EACH STORY'S OUTCOME

I am writing in reference to the Current story by Kenneth Singletary on the Christian Coalition meeting on Aug. 24 on Outcome-Based Education.

Singletary quoted the speaker, Dr. Wayne Brackenrich, as follows: "If we can control what children know, we can control what they do, and if we can control what they do, we can control what they will be like." Somehow, Singletary forgot to mention that Brackenrich was quoting William Spady, the guru of OBE and director of High Success Networks, based in Eagle, Colo. He is the chief consultant to the state of Virginia in the implementing OBE in Virginia schools.

Attributing this Marxist philosophy to Brackenrich instead of to Spady who authored it is, in my opinion, the height of irresponsible reporting. It appears that Spady and other proponents of OBE are trying to indoctrinate our children into Marxist socialism. The "if you control what they know, you control what they think, then you can control what they do" method of indoctrination is a carbon copy of the educational system Lenin mandated in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1917. Do American parents want that system here?

Readers expect news stories to be accurate and responsibly written. The editors of this newspaper should also expect and even require this "outcome" of their reporters.\ Judy Shreve\ Blacksburg 


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