Phone survey results released
by Donald Sensing | Link to this postA Brentwood High School parent just emailed me the results of the phone survey. The results were given to teachers today.
I threw together a quick table with summary results. See it here.
I'll post a more detailed breakdown later.
Update: Here is what the Central Office released in MS Word format.
9 Comments:
I hope this will influence the school board to vote this proposal down. Stop the insanity!
Could you look at the numbers again? I added up the 9th -12th grades and had a total of 2412 for the calendar and 3349 as against. I only checked the high schools because arguably these students will be impacted the most (summer jobs, extra curricular, sports & AP material).
Dr. Sharber contends having a close vote validates "the conversation" and again I say what conversation - you are asking for a decision! We don't have consenus here we have a flawed (polling issues) draw. I think change requires a mandate and a tie doesn't meet that standard.
I am stunned at how close these numbers are. Of course if businesses, churches, and parents of toddlers were included we would likely see more votes in the "nay" column. We're really going to have to battle to defeat this thing.
Why are the school type #'s different? Based on the # of households reached, the breakdown of calls by school type are way off. Did some families get a second vote? I calculate 8641 opposed and 7862 for.
I would support a recall election of any Board members voting for the "balanced" calendar and would work towards that end personally.
If families had students in more than one type of school, their opinion was tallied in all the school types and grades. The household votes are the raw data - the other is extrapolated to reflect how ALL elementary parents reacted, as well as ALL middle school parents, etc. Some people got more than one vote if you look at it that way, but only because they have more than one child in more than one school. If they had two elementary students, they only got one opinion.
Again, another way the numbers don't always tell the story...
I thank you and all the Grassland parents for opposing this. I do not want to give up my July. This will put a wrench in my custody arrangements for my children with their father and I know the school board will not pay my lawyer or court fees to have these guidelines rewritten. So thank you very much. Keep up the great work.
By the way, half of the school board is up for election in 2006. The even numbered districts are up in the August election. You have until April 6 to file. If you don't like the way your representatives vote, find someone to oppose them!
Wow, great blog! I've been fighting calendar issues in Murfreesboro City and Rutherford County schools for more years than I can remember, so I know what you're up against. PLEASE get the grade-by-grade information out to the media, as well as the student-based numbers versus the household data they're plastering the airwaves with. The 321-vote "opposed" margin when all students in a household are factored into the count is much more telling than that skewed 2-vote margin the school system is trumpeting! This is an issue that HAS to be looked at from a student's viewpoint, not a parent's or a household's. Nothing makes that point clearer than the fact that, from the 6th grade on, ALL grades are opposed to the balanced calendar! It's obvious that parents who've been on one of the year-round calendars in the elementary schools are biased towards it (because it's what they know), and I have no doubt they're skewing the survey results. The bottom line is that since all of the middle and high school grades are in opposition this should be a non-issue that can be defeated somewhat easily with a motivated group of parents working it...
Good luck, and please don't let the board and administrators push this through! It looks like you have a lot of support already -- now mobilize and plaster the Tennessean, the Williamson County media, and all of the Nashville television stations with the REAL data and the facts!
Kim Bailey
Murfreesboro, TN
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