Naperville Sun On-Line Poll for Metea Site

[momto4]

lacy said:

What I believe is there are alot of people in District 204 who believe the district should explore other sites for the 3rd high school.

There's no way we'll find that out from the Sun's poll. Even if the poll was limited to the Sun's readership, that would include a lot of people in 203 and exclude a lot of people in 204.

The Beacon does phone polls that appear (to me) to have more meaningful results and allow the callers to comment as well. But if the Beacon were to do a poll on people's opinion of something going on in 204 it would be downright strange since the vast majority of the readership is not in 204.

[wvhsparent]

I think what most were trying to say here, was that due to the way this poll was conducted, the results are really meaningless (pro or con). On top of that it was poorly worded and vague.

[lacy]

What I meant is that it is clear to me in talking to my neighbors that people overwhelming think we should look at another site. And these same people did not necessarily agree on the referendum - but now do agree on this. Therefore, it would not surprise me that many throughout the district would think this too.

[bob]

Statistically, your sample is to small and geographically narrow to extrapolate the actual mood of the whole SD.


Also, it is pretty easy to lie about what the neighbors say since we have no way of fact checking.

[wvhsparent]

lacy said:

What I meant is that it is clear to me in talking to my neighbors that people overwhelming think we should look at another site. And these same people did not necessarily agree on the referendum - but now do agree on this. Therefore, it would not surprise me that many throughout the district would think this too.

Actually, The people I have talked to in my neighborhood (as far north as one can get) also never really liked BB, but went with it more on the need of the HS than actual location, same with many I know in Stonebridge and the Eola Corridor. Those same people are more than happy with WVHS too.
We may lobby for a more northern location, but we are not going to fret over it.

[warriorpride]

lacy said:

What I meant is that it is clear to me in talking to my neighbors that people overwhelming think we should look at another site. And these same people did not necessarily agree on the referendum - but now do agree on this. Therefore, it would not surprise me that many throughout the district would think this too.

And then again, there are those contrarians that will always think that the SB should be doing something other than what they're currently doing.

[lacy]

bob said:

Statistically, your sample is to small and geographically narrow to extrapolate the actual mood of the whole SD.


Also, it is pretty easy to lie about what the neighbors say since we have no way of fact checking.

Denial?

[proschool]

As far as I can tell the families in the Metea Valley attendance area are very happy with the location. I think that is whats most important.

[Arch]

lacy said:

bob said:

Statistically, your sample is to small and geographically narrow to extrapolate the actual mood of the whole SD.

Also, it is pretty easy to lie about what the neighbors say since we have no way of fact checking.

Denial?

Denial has nothing to do with it.

It doesn't matter if your neighbors overwhelmingly believed there was a mothership behind the next comet waiting to beam them to the promise land on its next pass of earth. It's not representative of the whole district and depending on who and where you ask you will get different results. If I told you all of my neighbors thought BB was better and one block over all thought BB sucked and should be abandoned what does that mean? It means people have differences of opinions. Nothing more, nothing less and either way you can't prove nor disprove my 'claim' as to what my neighbors say.

[lacy]

archwinsome said:

lacy said:

Denial?

Denial has nothing to do with it.

It doesn't matter if your neighbors overwhelmingly believed there was a mothership behind the next comet waiting to beam them to the promise land on its next pass of earth. It's not representative of the whole district and depending on who and where you ask you will get different results. If I told you all of my neighbors thought BB was better and one block over all thought BB sucked and should be abandoned what does that mean? It means people have differences of opinions. Nothing more, nothing less and either way you can't prove nor disprove my 'claim' as to what my neighbors say.

You don't know what the whole district thinks. And quit pretending that you do.

You desperately want to dispel the notion that many believe we should look at an alternative site.

Maybe the district should poll the residents? You'd be afraid of that too.

[lacy]

proschool said:

As far as I can tell the families in the Metea Valley attendance area are very happy with the location. I think that is whats most important.

There are many future Metea Valley residents who believe the SB should look at an alternative site.

Maybe the district should poll the residents?

[bob]

Define many.

Another poll?

Lacy, we elect these people to make these choices and all of the them agreed that BB is the better site. CV agreed it was a better site and the unincorporated high voltage electric line Macom land should be kept as a back up.



Under your logic, we should vote for everything that is decided by the SD. What is next teachers? admins? books? homework?

I am beginning to think that if the whole SB even CV said the sky was blue, some would say it was green.

[lacy]

bob said:

Define many.

Many more than you would like to publically admit! Nice spin!

[bob]

Define many?

You won't cause you can't. This goes into a long list of honest questions that I have asked you that you have constantly avoided to answer. And, my next guess is that you will answer with another question.

I have yet to meet one person in real life that would prefer the unincorporated high voltage power line Macom site over the BB site.

[lacy]

You can't define it either - so why ask me a question you can't answer yourself (how many only want BB?)

Take a poll - I know that scares you.