Mapleton Public Schools Adams County School District No.1 591 E. 80th Avenue, Denver, CO 80229 Phone: 303-853-1000 Fax: 303-853-1086

Community phone survey to inform district on schedule change attitudes, other issues

Mapleton will make good on a promise to gauge community attitudes about a change in the school day schedule at the district's middle schools by conducting a phone survey of the district's middle school community, and will take advantage of the occasion to collect information about other issues as well.

Last spring, the Mapleton Board of Education approved a change in the middle school schedules from a school day running from 7:27 a.m. to 2:27 p.m. to one from 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.

After a group of about 10 parents showed up at a board meeting concerned about the impact of the change, then Superintendent Sandy Husk said the district would conduct an independent study of attitudes about the change after middle school families had a chance to fully understand the impact of the new schedule.

"We asked the community to wait until after Daylight Savings Time changed back and the days got shorter, so they would know exactly what the change would be like," Scarpella said, who was then the district's director of learning services.

The district will hire an independent, third party public opinion research company to ensure the collection and analysis are sound and unbiased, and the district will present the results and analysis at one of its February board meetings.

Scarpella said now is also the time for the district to ask a broader audience more questions than what they think about the middle school schedule.
"We want to know what our community both in and outside of our buildings thinks about some of the issues facing our district," Scarpella said. "We know what the passionate, involved parents think about our facilities, staff and service. But we know there are people with a stake in this district whose opinions and expectations we don't know as clearly."

Scarpella said she would like to know what parents and other community members think about a wide range of issues including the appearance of district buildings and the quality of the district's instruction practices.

"So if you get a call from someone saying they are doing a survey for us and you want us to know what you think about the district, tell them," Scarpella said.

Scarpella said the district is getting the word about the survey out to the community through other channels, including school newsletters and the district website.

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