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supposedly innocuous vocabulary. <br /> We will outline the steps involved in implementation of OBE and expose <br /> how far we have come. School Within a School and the Essential <br /> School Movement with which it is joined is a prime example of one OBE <br /> program already in place. Multi-aged classrooms and revised report <br /> cards are others. The health curriculum and health services and <br /> Communities in Schools are another OBE intrusion. We will present <br /> actual Chapel Hill/Carrboro curriculum for your inspection. <br /> Putting Children First will present many examples from the various <br /> states where OBE has been and is being tried and is failing. Academic <br /> standards have decreased and costs have skyrocketed. The <br /> casualties are not the replaced educrats or school boards (although that <br /> is welcome), but rather the children. In attempting to prepare them for <br /> the 21st century, this educational OBE shuttle has blown up on the <br /> launch pad taking a valuable crew with it. <br /> Putting Children First will also present curriculum ideas that have <br /> worked, not only in our own school system but in other systems around <br /> the country. We emphatically state that any system with 25% of its high <br /> school students who are at-risk of failing and 80% of the black students <br /> who are at-risk needs to use proven programs that work. What pride <br /> do we feel to say we are the best system in a state ranked 48th in the <br /> nation? <br /> Finally, we are banding together with citizen groups from Orange County <br /> and the surrounding school districts to stop OBE right here and right <br /> now. And it can be stopped. Look at Virginia, look at Littleton Colorado. <br /> Let's make Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools known for more than condoms, <br /> and gay studies, and recall votes, and blue-ribbon failing. Let's truly <br /> make OBE in Chapel Hill/Carrboro stand for Our Best Education. <br />