Response to Emma's Blog

Emma Bornshein recently made a post about a WAVE article about bus problems. They did not give any details because there were no bus problems. As she stated, the article could have been pertinent if it actually affected the people. The article did not affect people because even though citizens pay taxes to support the schools, the article was just saying that there wasn't any issues. In her critique, Emma did a great job of including all mistakes they made and also researching to find these mistakes. I found no issues with Emma's post because she was so thorough.

I think this was a great article. She was extremely inclusive in this piece. She found so many errors within the article that the average person would not have noticed. Just from reading the article, I only noticed a couple of the mistakes she pointed out. The main one was obvious, inclusiveness. The article was very one-sided and did not even cover the opinions of the parents. This surprised me because they were being talked about in the article. The students were also important. I wonder how they felt about being given a 'tag'? Was it helpful or did they think it was unnecessary? The article should have addressed these questions.

She did a lot of research to find out some of the mistakes from the article. One thing that she researched most was probably the Hawthorne Elementary new school day part. She must have looked hard to find out that other schools did the same thing a few years ago. "This would be a newsworthy fact if it was relevant but unfortunately, different schools have had similar procedures in place for years. In fact, on JCPS's 2009 online newsletter it explicitly states, "JCPS elementary students will receive a bracelet to be worn during the first week of school."" This is a quote from her post. This was from the archive of JCPS from 2009! It wasn't common knowledge of their front page. I think that that is a great version of researching.

Emma's post can be found at: http://barefootdance.blogspot.com/2013/09/media-critique-of-wave3-education.html  This post includes the links to both the critiqued article and the archive from 2009.