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Dear Editor:
Local media devoted space last week to publicizing a flawed Carmel Clay school system opinion survey.
Ignored in the ballyhoo were these factors:
- The survey drew just 5 percent (or 4,565) of Carmel’s 103,093 citizens.
- All respondents were self-selected, not randomly, scientifically selected.
- Respondents included they very people being graded – teachers, and middle and high school students.
In other words, the school system copied Carmel City Hall whitewash tactics to the letter.
More importantly, nothing in the survey itself or the results or the publicity referenced the schools’ $315 million debt underwritten entirely by property taxes.
Is there a lesson in all that?
Bill Shaffer
Carmel
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