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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a math teacher, I suspect, or at least hope, you took some statistics classes in college. And if so, I imagine one of those classes at least touched on the topic of sampling bias.  I'm sure you see where I'm going with this.

Why should anyone look at your survey results in light of MCPS's district-wide usage data?

Don't get me wrong- I don't see how you could have Chromebooks in class without something like GoGuardian, but clearly many, many teachers were doing just that. Or you're going to want to address that discrepancy with the Board when describing your survey responses.[/quote]

I agree. OP, I think your cause is worthy and you're right to fight for it, but you're gonna have to take on those usage metrics presented at the board head on.[/quote]

Agree.  You’re going to need to address the usage data and ask for metrics broken down by grade and potentially across school.  Especially when other teachers have already publicly admitted to not using the tool.  Software licensing agreements are expensive.  Further while this seems a small part of the budget, the largest part is salary and benefits.  A cost that is increasing as new schools and grades come online.  So unless you want them to make all the cuts from the largest part of the budget, they must be made somewhere.[/quote]

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