According to Dr. McIntyre. He's not counting them "this year" but still spending $100,000 to administer the tests. Perhaps they were caught in a contractual obligation. -- s.

Thanks for the clarification, Sandra.

However, my student will be opting out whether or not his opinions count toward teacher evaluations this school year.

Tamara is a dictator parent

It counts for 5% of the teacher's total evaluation score.

We won't opt out. I want to see what's going on. We may not complete the survey though.

Well I don't have children in the school system, but after taking a look at the "sample" questions on the student survey section of the website, I don't know that I would want my child completing this without me, particularly in the lower grades.

"Student Perception" surveys seem to be incredibly subjective.

While clicking around the site I came upon this gem:

The MET Project found that Tripod surveys are predictive of student achievement gains and are a stable, reliable measure of effective teaching.

subjective questions and answers of students will not lead to a "reliable measure of effective teaching." It simply cannot. Every child is different, every child's learning style is different, as are teaching styles. Sometimes these styles mesh, sometimes they don't. When learning and teaching styles don't mesh, that does not mean the teacher is bad, it just means that teachers teaching style is not conducive to one particular child's learning style.

What has our school system come to?

I just got a response from my child's principal stating "It does not count for teacher evaluations at all. Right now it is only used as a piece to inform teachers on how students perceive them."

Letter to go home basically is a written version of robocall yesterday.