Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Deceived or better informed?

You may have seen today's Boston Globe article reporting:
Nearly half of voters in 11 Massachusetts cities give their public schools a grade of A or B and just 12 percent rate their schools D or F, according to poll results released yesterday.

Mass Inc, which did the survey of 400 voters in "Gateway Cities" across the state, immediately pivots to MCAS scores and claims that locals don't know what they're talking about:


“The concern coming from these poll numbers is that many residents in Gateway Cities may be uninformed — or in denial — about the significant hurdles facing these schools and students with closing the achievement gap,’’ John Schneider, executive vice president of MassINC, said in a statement.

Or perhaps, Mr. Schneider, they're better informed than you are, as they judge by more than MCAS scores.

2 comments:

Jim Gonyea said...

Perhaps the parents don't have an anti public school agenda and the parents are actually interested in how well their children are developing.

T-Traveler said...

as a parent of a WPS student, I would say the district has alot of work to do