Team Work Meeting Part 4: Executive Summary (meeting)

The following summarizes our team, "The Breakfast Club’s," decision-making process and proposed solution to the problem “What would be the best approach to sex education at Whispering Pines High School?”

Using the Dewey’s Reflective Thinking Sequence in our online and face-to-face meetings, we first researched the characteristics of the problem, stakeholders who would be effective by the solution, the history of what had been tried already to solve the problem, policies and practices that limited the possible solutions and the cultural attitude toward sex education in the area.

The goal of the criteria was to find a solution that served all parties and did not alienate any one group. So, we created a set of criteria by which to determine the best possible solution and then brainstormed solutions. Finally, we analyzed the proposed solutions by scoring them, giving high marks for those that met our criteria best.

We have decided that the solution to our problem will be a three-class system, utilizing existing teachers and following a curriculum approved by individual parents. One class would teach a comprehensive curriculum on sexual education including the use of contraceptives and alternative lifestyles. The second class would teach sexual education fundamentals with an abstinence-only approach. The third classroom option would be no sexual education whatsoever, but would entitle those students to select an elective option in which to utilize that classroom time.