Ask questions directly
It is very interesting that Yosemite Pam has asked a number of times why people voted NO on the school bond issues. People not giving their names have always mentioned the difference between North and Central here on PATA. We have even seen letters to the editors over the last few years bringing up the same issue. So why didn?’t the school board try to find out how important that issue was with the voters in their survey of July 13 thru July 16th?
Here is the question asked: ?“And what would you say is the most important issue or problem facing the Pickerington Schools? ?“
The two major responses were: Over crowding and financial mismanagement.
There were no responses on the Taj Mahal.
My question is why didn?’t the school board ask this important question directly?
It appears to me that they were trying to simply justify putting on the ballot the two elementary school and the middle schools and say the survey indicated that.
This recent survey was a very sophisticated method of not listening to the voters. The questions and the way they were asked only re-enforces the notion that the board refuses to listen. Clearly judging by the history of Pickerington school politics no one is going to answer truthfully these questions to some stranger on a phone unless they fall in line with the status quo. It is like trying to get through a huge government bureaucracy.
It is very interesting that Yosemite Pam has asked a number of times why people voted NO on the school bond issues. People not giving their names have always mentioned the difference between North and Central here on PATA. We have even seen letters to the editors over the last few years bringing up the same issue. So why didn?’t the school board try to find out how important that issue was with the voters in their survey of July 13 thru July 16th?
Here is the question asked: ?“And what would you say is the most important issue or problem facing the Pickerington Schools? ?“
The two major responses were: Over crowding and financial mismanagement.
There were no responses on the Taj Mahal.
My question is why didn?’t the school board ask this important question directly?
It appears to me that they were trying to simply justify putting on the ballot the two elementary school and the middle schools and say the survey indicated that.
This recent survey was a very sophisticated method of not listening to the voters. The questions and the way they were asked only re-enforces the notion that the board refuses to listen. Clearly judging by the history of Pickerington school politics no one is going to answer truthfully these questions to some stranger on a phone unless they fall in line with the status quo. It is like trying to get through a huge government bureaucracy.
