Youth truthsurvey requires action, too

Youth truth surveys don't show any educational and graduational value. Each year students fill out a survey on our opinions of the school and what they need to change. Whether that is things in or out of the classroom, they don’t change anything that it is starting to show. 

Last year the survey had a question about how they thought the new math curriculum was and from what I have heard, not many people like it. If not many people like the change and there was a shown  decline in grade averages, then you would think that they would change it to what it was before. This year they have still kept the curriculum in progress and, which might show that they don’t care about any of the major questions that were answered negatively, and only care about the staff and students being nice. 

The survey itself does not hold any value below surface level. It does not address any roots to academic challenges. Data from surveys are also most likely skewed because of potential students doing things like randomly clicking buttons and not caring about the survey. It does not point out how students are struggling and it does not create potential ways that teachers are able to help said struggling students in ways that give the student a way to potentially be educated correctly. What the survey does do, though, is gather information about how the school outside of education and engagement within the students and teachers themselves. 

The decline of education throughout the years has become a problem in Oregon education. According to koin.com, Oregon ranks just 45th out of the 50 states while the state of Washington ranks 23rd. Oregon’s graduation rates were also at 81.3% as of 2023, meaning one in every 5 students were not graduating. I believe that listening to the students for various curriculums such as math would be beneficial. It would give them the opportunity to learn their own way and direction while letting the teachers have a successful way to teach and not force ways on their students.