In his second year as New York City schools chancellor, Dennis Walcott’s popularity fell to levels that rival the tumultuous 95-day tenure of his predecessor, Cathie Black. Fifty-seven percent of teachers said they were “unsatisfied or very unsatisfied” with Walcott, the highest disapproval rate for a chancellor since at least 2010.
A little more than one in four teachers expressed strong approval for Walcott.
Do you believe that a little more than 25% of teachers feel strong approval for Chancellor Walcott?
I don't believe that number.
I don't think the DOE played funky with the results, not at Tweed, but I would bet some teachers continued to be told by their supervisors to respond to all questions on the survey positively no matter what.
In my school, I bet the "strongly approve" response for Walcott was in the low single digits.
There was one E4E guy who wasn't the swiftest card in the Delaney book, so it's possible he would have "strongly approved" of Walcott.
Like most E4Eers, he's moved on from the classroom to bigger and better things.
There might be one or two other teachers that I could see at my school responding "strongly approve" for the Walcott question.
That's out of 100+ teachers.
So a little under 3% or so is my gauge for "strong approval" responses for Walcott.
I find it hard to believe 25% of teachers around the rest of the system, if administered truth serum, would say they "strongly approve" of Walcott.
What say the rest of you out there?
How do you gauge the response in your school?
How about system-wide?
Is there something funky about the numbers reported on the surveys?
