Strategic Plan Survey Not Available

I hope that everyone who was planning to complete the Strategic Plan Survey had an opportunity to do so. I checked this afternoon and, although the link to the survey is still available on the I-SS web Home page, the survey itself is not. If you now click on the link to the survey you are now taken to a page that displays the following message.

Sorry, but the survey 'EOY Review SMART Goals' is not currently live, so you cannot take it at this time.

Perhaps someone at I-SS was checking this blog, saw the post about the survey, and decided that the survey should be corrected. Anyone looking at the survey should be able to tell that it was seriously flawed. The statements were cryptic and lacking essential information. I do not know who designed this survey but that person is in serious need of professional training. Maybe it is time for a PDSA.

Of course, it could be that the administration did not like the responses and decided to remove the survey before they received any more negative responses. Remember it is important that the data represents what we want it to represent.

Janey Munday's Letter To The Editor

A group of concerned citizens has formed. We developed goals and a purpose for the group. The purpose of our meetings is to address the concerns of Iredell's citizens regarding the education of their children and grandchildren. Students, parents, teachers, teacher assistants, and others all have beneficial views and opinions that can be combined to successfully improve our educational program. Our goal is to bring positive change to the Iredell-Statesville Schools through the most constructive measures possible. Anyone with an interest in the education of our children is welcome to participate.

We represent the teachers who are stressed to the max. Who go to work everyday feeling oppressed and beat down. Who feel that no one out there understands how they feel or even cares. Teachers who work in an atmosphere of repression and intimidation. Teachers who have had their creativity and motivation for teaching replaced by testing and data collecting.

We represent the students who enter these schools everyday to feel the tension that fills the buildings. The students who are told that field trips and fun days are gone or very limited because their test scores are not good enough so they need to replace fun with more testing and data discussions.

We represent the parents who feel frustrated at how things are going at their child's school but don't know what to do. One voice is not heard, many voices speaking together are. Join us in lifting our voices up for the children of Iredell County.

The above letter was written by Janey Munday and was printed in Sunday's edition of the Record and Landmark.