According to the Success Academy website, the “the full poll [is] available upon request”. Given the misleading findings they claimed in describing a similar poll in Brooklyn last year, I would think GothamSchools would be on the case IMMEDIATELY. RIGHT??
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002397245457 Mary Conway-Spiegel
Hey Gotham…what Harringtonion said…I just clicked and clicked and I, as a lifelong D2 student, now parent was never, not once, asked about Success in my district…I was not polled.
So I will be “requesting” tomorrow, because last I checked D2 does not want or even need a Success school.
Anonymous
Another charter fraudulent ploy…..lie, lie, and then lie some more.
Mr. Flerporillo
My immediate reactions:
1. It was a survey of 400 “voters,” not 400 “parents.” The “parents” referenced in the press release are a subset of the “voters” who were polled. It’s not clear how many of the 400 were “parents” or how old the children of the “parents” are (I’m 40 and my parents are parents).
2. It doesn’t surprise me that the 400 voters who didn’t hang up immediately would say “yes” to the question “do you want new schools?” New schools, who doesn’t want new schools? Do you want a new car? Great, we’ll put one inside your current car.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002397245457 Mary Conway-Spiegel
I’ve always wanted a car inside my car…thank you first laugh of the day.
PLUS
Right on Harringtonian!
Yes Gothamschools please do post the poll that Eva and her PR firm says shows that D2 parents want Success Academy Charters to occupy their D2 public school buidlings.
Not
WRONG
DM
How does an individual with no integrity get to be in charge of the education for so many children?
Guest
It would be helpful to see a detailed description of the sample specifications and the survey instrument–who knows how these questions were even worded. A data set would be great too!
Tim
Yup. And even the ’56% of parents registered to vote in District 2 who would send their child to a different school than the one they currently attend” needs further explanation to mean anything. It could be people in Battery Park who are all pouty because they had to be on a waitlist for a few days. Or people who are still sulking about not getting a spot at Anderson. Or people who are the parents of middle-school or high-school children for whom the question about adding K-8 schools that don’t accept students after 1st grade is irrelevant.
Fortunately, you have to assume that with their unlimited outreach budget, Success hired a top-notch pollster to conduct this survey. They’ll be able to provide all the cross-tabs, the voting precincts where the respondents lived, the age of their children, and everything else we need to determine whether this poll means something. I encourage Gotham Schools to ask Success for this information, and while they’re at it, ask them to reveal the “voluminous data” that Jenny Sedlis referred to during the Brill/Winerip dustup, where Success argued that the official NYSED demographic data for their network was inaccurate, even though it was provided and verified by Success.
bonniepbl
I am surprised to read re Hirsch’s Common Core ideas, and that Klein read about his ideas,and positively reviewed them. My belief has long been that balanced literacy is a joke and that teachers should lead the children in reading and understanding what they read to a much greater extent. In fact, the main weakness, once phonics skills are in place, is comprehension which is lacking due to the very poor vocabulary poor kids generally have, as well as their very low general knowledge. They have no foundation with which to comprehend, and talking to each other re what they read is another joke. That should be a limited part of the lassroom activity.Middle class kids are ahead because they enter school with more knowledge and vocabulary than poorer kids, and this foundations is bolstered at home throughout their childhood.
So I am surprised that I like an idea from Klein. But why the reticence re it?
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