the question in the demographic section of the wiscon surveys about level of education starts at "high school diploma" and I know it's a little thing, but it still flinched me.
The survey has been revised - it's currently "out of order" due to the way they were put into the website (while it was live), but it will be changed and in a sensible order for next year.
YOU ROCK. Is it bugging too much to ask that it be looked at for perhaps better break-downs over all? I don't recall that there was anything for "some college," which i think is fairly standard on other surveys i've filled out. And i know that "some college" would include more than just this particular college flunk/drop-out (in part because Nisi mentioned her own flunk-out status during the class basics panel). I can respect that Wiscon might not want TOO much granularity in their survey, but it does seem like some standard gradations are missing.
It is not too much! In fact, the ConCom member who revised the survey already said that she added "Some College" as an option, too, so I think it should already be up.
Cool. :) I already completed the survey (possibly under the influence of cold medicine, so god knows what i wrote), but i'm glad the options have been expanded for future respondents.
And again, it bothered me a little bit that there wasn't a "some college" option. My issue isn't as big as yours, but I dislike having to choose between "yes I graduated hs" and ... nothing else. I may not have gotten a college degree but I spent something like seven years in school.
But yea, it's especially upsetting not to have anything before the "high school diploma" category because it does feel rather classist and ... what's a good word for education privilege? elitist?
I feel dumb for letting it bug me, but to be honest it really does. The one way wiscon feels like shaky ground to me is as a dropout among academics, so the reminder that it's taken for granted I have more institutional education than I do, while I was still feeling accomplished for holding my own on panels with srs akademyks, really smarts.
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Date: 2010-06-12 12:46 am (UTC)I'm glad to have made the fixes and welcome more suggestions.
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Date: 2010-06-11 05:05 am (UTC)But yea, it's especially upsetting not to have anything before the "high school diploma" category because it does feel rather classist and ... what's a good word for education privilege? elitist?
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Date: 2010-06-11 05:23 am (UTC)I feel dumb for letting it bug me, but to be honest it really does. The one way wiscon feels like shaky ground to me is as a dropout among academics, so the reminder that it's taken for granted I have more institutional education than I do, while I was still feeling accomplished for holding my own on panels with srs akademyks, really smarts.
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