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New York - WABC, April 30, 2007) - Frustrated parents are staging a boycott Monday, trying to send a message to Mayor Bloomberg. Education reporter Art McFarland has more on the controversy.
The mayor had already promised a way for the New York City school community to weigh in on how individual schools are doing.
"Starting today, we're going to be sending out our 'Learning Environment Surveys,' to the school system's three biggest stakeholders: the teachers, the parents and the students," Mayor Bloomberg said.
The surveys will amount to 10 percent of overall report cards to be issued for each school.
"This survey was not written to really address the problems that all of us said were important," parent activist Leonie Haimson said. " Haimson, of the group "Class Size Matters," was on a panel of parent leaders asked to make suggestions for the survey. She is not alone in calling for a form of protest over the survey.
"Instead of answering the questions that really don't pertain to our issues, we want parents to cross out the survey and write how they really feel on it," she said.
