DoDEA Customer Satisfaction Survey

[Trail]

For those of you with school-aged children, here is the DoDEA survey for you to fill out. I'm not sure how many of you possibly received the email but here is the link:

https://webapps.dodea.edu/CSS0809/

[wenjam]

I filled it out, and it is a joke. My daughter is in the first gade, so we fill out the Speak Up part. All it asks about it what technology we would like to see happen in the schools. It had nothing to do with the teaching aspect at all. If so, I would have put on there about my daughter's teacher teaching English, when she does not even speak proper English....rant over..

[IndyGal]

The school pulled us aside to fill this out during conferences last month. I thought it was pretty much useless as well.

Wenjam...My son had an English teacher in sixth grade (here) that I had the very same complaint about. She instructed her class like she was talking to her "sista girls". LOL Also calling the kids "honey child", "baby", etc. My son hated it. Honestly, if you specifically teach English; you should at least properly speak it during class. Save the street talk for the street.

[Trail]

Ladies, not a rant place. Threw the info. out there for people. If you have a better way, other than the survey, to let them know how they are doing (other than bitching), please inform the rest on how to get their thoughts and feeling across in a productive manner. Perhaps, instead on whining about it, speak to the teacher or administration personally.

Most teachers are unsung heroes but very few who are not ruin it for them all.

[ryukyuboi]

For those of you with school-aged children, here is the DoDEA survey for you to fill out. I'm not sure how many of you possibly received the email but here is the link:

https://webapps.dodea.edu/CSS0809/

The DoDEA survery does not safeguard against anyone, even without children in their schools, from taking the survey. Therefore, I would have to question the validity of the survey results.

A more effective way of collecting survey data would be for parents to complete a survey of this kind when parents are registering or reregistering their child in school. The surveys could be numbered to insure that parents do not attempt to sabortage the results. Of course, a paper survey may not be as cost effective as an online one.

Does anyone know if any changes have ever been realized due to DoDDS survey results? I am not aware of any.

I think the survey is an attempt by DoDDS to make parents feel like their imput is valued and important, but nothing more than that, which I suppose is important on a certain level, but somehow falls real short of meaning much via this survey.

I noticed that parents had an opportunity to rate the system, as did the students. I wonder why I did not see a survey for teachers to rate the system??

[IndyGal]

Ladies, not a rant place. Threw the info. out there for people. If you have a better way, other than the survey, to let them know how they are doing (other than bitching), please inform the rest on how to get their thoughts and feeling across in a productive manner. Perhaps, instead on whining about it, speak to the teacher or administration personally.

Most teachers are unsung heroes but very few who are not ruin it for them all.

I do have a better way other than the survey. Go into the school YOURSELF. I keep in regular contact when needed with my kid's teachers via email. I make sure I go in during Open House, Parent Teacher Conferences, and I volunteer. If need be I arrange face to face meetings as well.

My kids have gone to DODDS schools on Okinawa for the last nine years. The majority of the teachers have been wonderful and only a couple that I have had major issue with that I had to address.

As a matter of fact I invited one of my kid's third grade teacher to her performance in middle school recently.

I did respond first about the survey because I have filled it out and then to wenjam's comment. I have a lot of respect for the majority of our teachers and do not need you to imply that I only come on here to bitch and whine yet do nothing about it. You do not know me.

[DoctorP]

I just took it, but I really wish it was not an anonymos survey. I had a lot of things to say and would like feedback to my input.

[Trail]

Indy, thank you clarifying. I have teachers on both sides on my family, plus my in-laws sides, and my dad was also a substitute teacher for a time. Often the children were/are not difficult to handle, the parents were/are. It is great that you stay involved but you have to admit, many do not and then choose bitch about how their child is being taught when they are not even involved in the child's school life.

[Trail]

I just took it, but I really wish it was not an anonymos survey. I had a lot of things to say and would like feedback to my input.

Write a letter and get signatures possibly from other parents (ala petition style) and send it to the appropriate person. If you don't want other parents to know your feelings send it to the admin, principle, and also maybe a paper. I know it's hard to write "letters to the Editor" here but it's worth a try.

[wenjam]

I am involved in my childs class as well. I volunteer there a few times a month, and keep in touch almost every day via e-mail. I am not bitching, I was just stating that the surveys are useless to the 1st grade...it is a survey on how you think schools should improve their technology, and not about the school or teacher itself. I have even tried to change teachers for my child....but they would not approve it. One day, I volunteered, and her English was so broken, it made my mouth drop...not anywhere near proper. The teacher is Asian....which I have no problem with, but I send her to school hoping to get a proper education....the public schools in the US taught better than the teacher she has now. I have to correct my daughter half the time. I did not come here to bitch about anything. I was just stating how the survey was a big joke.

[DoctorP]

Well, I told them I think they are putting too much emphasis on technology and need less not more.

[wenjam]

To an extent I agree. Everything is going to computers now, and I can only imagine what it is going to be like when my kids are grown, and looking for a job. I guess they are just looking for a way to prepare them for the future. But, yes, I think they need to focus more on teaching the students as a whole, rather than stick them in fromt of a computer for a day.

[DoctorP]

To an extent I agree. Everything is going to computers now, and I can only imagine what it is going to be like when my kids are grown, and looking for a job. I guess they are just looking for a way to prepare them for the future. But, yes, I think they need to focus more on teaching the students as a whole, rather than stick them in fromt of a computer for a day.

Well, I have kids in Jr. High too, and there is way too much emphasis on the PC, hell, let the kids open a damn book! :rolleyes:

[wenjam]

That is one thing I love about my daughter...she LOVES to read....takes after me. I completely understand what you are saying. When I was in high school, we did not use computers...except in a computer programming class I took, but, reading teaches kids so much more, and it helps with the old noggin too for imagination.

[IndyGal]

Well, I have kids in Jr. High too, and there is way too much emphasis on the PC, hell, let the kids open a damn book! :rolleyes:

Some of my kid's classes didn't even hand out books. They have to access them online.