| The Alpha Center presenters
did not give cites on the statistics they used or
information they portrayed to students as factual.
According to a presenter at Rocky Mountain High,
the best feedback he has received from students
was how glad they were to get statistics yet, he
did not cite the statistics for the students or
send home with students to share with their parents
the cites on all statistics they presented or claims
they made. And, as stated above, the material and
statistics the Alpha Center uses in their presentations
should have been made available for parents and
the community to view prior to their presentations.
That did not occur. |
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| Statistical and factual
information cites are very important for parents,
teachers and school administrators to pay close
attention to in these particular types of presentations.
Such attention works to keep honest an organization
that is admittedly biased and is discussing a very
sensitive topic and has a history of dishonesty
and deception. It is important that teachers and
administrators protect the young impressionable
audience in their classroom who are not likely to
question |
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| or investigate the statistics
or facts presented to them by the Alpha Center,
statistics and facts clearly designed to impress,
frighten and manipulate. That is why it is critical
that the district make every effort to make sure
both parents and the community have ample opportunity
to inspect materials to be used in such presentations. |
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| I am positive that Poudre
School District teachers and many PSD administrators
who observed the Alpha Center's presentations in
which they passed out their "Sexual
Health/Knowledge Pretest Game" (Copy
attached), for example, was totally unaware of the
dangerous, biased and untrue information the Alpha
Center passed off as factual, true and unbiased
information. |
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| Bert Wright, a long time
volunteer with the Alpha Center who made several
presentations I observed this past school year as
well as conducting a presentation I observed in
2000 at Blevins Junior High School, used this "game"
in a coed classroom presentation on March 3, 2003
at Poudre High School and again when he presented
to an all-boys class on May 6, 2003 at Lincoln Junior
High. |
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