June 19, 2020 – Slinger, WI – The Slinger School District (SSD) will release all information next week from its recent public survey regarding plans for the 2020 – 2021 school year.
“This is not the response I anticipated,” said Slinger School District Superintendent Daren Sievers. “We’re getting an amazing response with more than 50-percent of people participating.”
In 2015 when the SSD pitched a $42.28 million referendum and sent out a district-wide survey it received a 22-percent response.
“Normally when you survey the public if you get 10 percent or more you can use that as guiding data because it represents the breadth of public opinion,” said Sievers. “This question of what the fall school year should look like and how spring went we have five times the acceptable amount of data so this is going to be extremely good guidance on what we can do to start putting a fall plan in place.”
Sievers will initially release the results to the school board on Wednesday, June 24 and then all results will be released to parents on Thursday, June 25.
Sievers said the district will know more when it receives more information from the health department on Tuesday, June 23.
“I don’t think we can lock ourselves into a year-long plan because if a second wave (COVID) comes we have to stay nimble like we were this past year,” he said.
The goal of the survey, according to Sievers, was to offer a plan to parents by August 2, 2020.
“Parents will be able to know what’s available and then they can make a choice based whether to keep their kids at home for online school or if they come back to the classroom,” he said.
The Slinger School Board will meet Monday, June 22 at 7 p.m. Click HERE for the agenda. There is also a special meeting at 6 p.m., June 24, 2020. Click HERE for the agenda and a phone number to call in to access the meeting and make public comments.
A copy of the survey is below.
