The Story
The school is sending out all those surveys on remote learning for a reason.
Fill me in…
The high school administration has really kept in touch since the onset of online learning. And no, we don’t just mean through the virtual spirit week (Tasteful Toga Tuesday was our personal favorite.) No, we’re talking about the surveys. And yes, we mean surveys, plural. There’s the ones from Mr. Jozokos, the district wide parent survey, the ones in your exit tickets… the list goes on. We talked (aka emailed, because social distancing) to Mr. Jozokos to see what’s happening with all this information.
Why do they collect it?
The school started doing surveys for the parents to check in with entire families, not just the students. They also wanted to see where online schooling could improve, because we’re kind of in uncharted territory here. The results are sent to the superintendent himself every week.
Why else?
As for the surveys from your teachers, during the first week of remote learning, Mr. Jozokos asked the staff to get feedback from the students. This is probably why every exit ticket you got that week asked how you were doing. However, it is no longer mandated, so according to Mr. Jozokos, if your teachers are still asking, they actually just want to know how you’re doing. How sweet.
What are people saying?
So far, a mix. On the school-wide surveys, the data pool has been pretty evenly split between freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. They also had a variety of different class types represented, with people from PSP, IB, AP, and A/B classes. 61.8% of students said that their workload was “just right,” which is a win for the administration. However, a sizable chunk of students (36.6% to be exact) said that they were receiving too much work. We feel you. Mr. Jozokos shared the exact graphs for these in a separate email.
What do they do with it?
Mr. Jozokos says that the weekly feedback has been incredibly constructive in shaping the future of online learning. For example, all of the information from the first two weeks was collected, some big changes were made. That new Wednesday extra help policy didn’t metabolize out of thin air. So considering that we’re not going back to the BHS building this year, we’re guessing the surveys aren’t stopping anytime soon.
The Runaway
Keep filling out those forms. And we said “survey” so many times in this article, it doesn’t even feel like a word anymore.
What to Say…
When the most important thing in Bedford is cancelled…
Rip, spring season. With the cancellation of school comes the cancellation of sports, but there’s still a lot up in the air. Mr. Parker does in fact agree with the NHIAA’s decision to cancel the spring season. While he of course feels for the students and coaches, safety is his number one priority and he feels that the NHIAA made the right call. And don’t worry winter athletes, you will get your awards….eventually. Mr. Parker and the administration are trying to find a way to avoid mailing them, as there are over 375 winter athletes. They’re hopeful that winter teams will be able to get together for celebrations or banquets of some sort, but that’s still undecided, obviously. And of course, they know everyone has been waiting to hear about captains for next year. According to Mr. Parker, some teams hadn’t voted on captains because their seasons were interrupted, and he didn’t want to wait to gather all that info from students to post the slideshow. However, since then, coaches have supposedly been communicating to the entire team and announcing captains. As for all you fall athletes, fingers crossed things will be back to normal by the time your season rolls around.
Things to Know…
What’s going on with April break?
April break has been cut short by 3 days. The first 3 days will be regular school days, followed by a 5 day weekend.
Still confused?
Because of the April break thing, the last day of school is now June 9th! All this math is hurting my head.