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Unless it's well-covered by other sources, I would kindly ask you to blog your observations and share them with us :)
I certainly will.
As the teacher said, the focus should be on the survey, not his acts. Of course, provided that he doesn't suffer any unfair and ridiculous disciplinary actions.
You could cross check answers of a well designed survey to get an indication if the answers are honest or not but this does not nearly bring the result close to an anonymous but more honestly answered survey.
"But John Dryden said he's not the point. He wants people to focus on the issue he raised: Whether school officials considered that students could incriminate themselves with their answers to the survey that included questions about drug and alcohol use." To me, that sounds like an unusually thoughtful social studies teacher. He is relating the general concepts that he is hired to teach his students to a real-world s…
I really want to understand this "proprietary information" excuse the school is using to justify not releasing the survey. Certainly the kids can go home and tell their parents what they saw (and some have). The kids didn't sign an NDA, they saw it, so why can't we see it? This story is happening in my town. There is a public hearing tomorrow night and I plan on attending.
Further, if it comes from a company that also offers more conventional achievement kinds of tests, it may come with bloodthirsty NDAs, as a matter of habit for such companies.
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I really want to understand this "proprietary information" excuse the school is using to justify not releasing the survey. Certainly the kids can go home and tell their parents what they saw (and some have). The kids didn't sign an NDA, they saw it, so why can't we see it? This story is happening in my town. There is a public hearing tomorrow night and I plan on attending.
My guess is that the survey was bought from a private company on a contract that says it is that company's property and not to be shared. Therefore if the school released the form, they could be sued by said private company both for violating copyright and contract. (And the company would want that because they want to resell the survey to other schools.) Stupid, yes. But I think it is likely that the school has a re…
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Per the school's zero tolerance policy, students who reveal alcohol or drug use are expelled at no risk to the school. I don't agree with their method but it is pretty simple.
Wow. Are the students told that beforehand? I think a shocking consequence is students will now feel unsafe telling the truth about troubling events (abuse, etc.)
That's the idea -- helping those students is a significant and easily ignored cost center.
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Per the school's zero tolerance policy, students who reveal alcohol or drug use are expelled at no risk to the school. I don't agree with their method but it is pretty simple.
Wow. Are the students told that beforehand? I think a shocking consequence is students will now feel unsafe telling the truth about troubling events (abuse, etc.)
Did they risk manage this survey? What do they do if a student reveals an alcohol problem? Or sexual abuse? Or criminal behaviour? It's potentially a good idea, but they should have thought it through a bit more before. EDIT: The company selling the tests have a lot of product available. ( http://www.mhs.com/Education.aspx ) EDIT: I might be annoyed if schools are buying these tests instead of textbooks.
Per the school's zero tolerance policy, students who reveal alcohol or drug use are expelled at no risk to the school. I don't agree with their method but it is pretty simple.
My school did something similar, but the surveys were anonymous and simply used for aggregate statistics - which sounds infinitely more effective than what this school is doing, anyway.
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Wow. Are the students told that beforehand? I think a shocking consequence is students will now feel unsafe telling the truth about troubling events (abuse, etc.)
Cynical-me thinks this is ideal education - proper preparation for "the real world": Answer every question not with "the truth", but instead work out what "the expected answer" is and give them that...
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Per the school's zero tolerance policy, students who reveal alcohol or drug use are expelled at no risk to the school. I don't agree with their method but it is pretty simple.
You sure about that? That'd be downright idiotic. My school did something similar, but the surveys were anonymous and simply used for aggregate statistics - which sounds infinitely more effective than what this school is doing, anyway.
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Wow. Are the students told that beforehand? I think a shocking consequence is students will now feel unsafe telling the truth about troubling events (abuse, etc.)
Cynical-me thinks this is ideal education - proper preparation for "the real world": Answer every question not with "the truth", but instead work out what "the expected answer" is and give them that...
A lot of people feel that they must fill in every value of every form "or else". While really, if you value your privacy you should ask if every value is really required.