NJDOE guidance · Communicating Policy
The state told
districts to ask
students.
NJDOE’s own guidance tells districts to revisit their device policy each year using feedback from students and families.Communicating Policy The statute named five groups the Commissioner had to consult, and every one is an association of adults who work in schools.s.2.c This is somewhere to answer.
There are no responses yet. Nobody has answered yet. Yours would be the first.
The figure is read from the database every time this page loads, rather than typed into it. A survey that would round its own sample up is not one NJDOE should read.
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Seven neutral questions, about three minutes. It asks which parts of the school day you think devices should be restricted, what worries you in both directions, and which policy you would prefer. It does not ask who you are.
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Totals only, published once enough people have answered that no individual can be picked out of them. Every chart carries its numbers in text as well as in a picture, and the sample is described honestly: it is self-selected, not a poll.
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Why the questions are neutral even though this site is not
The instrument is published in advanceThis site argues that New Jersey should permit device use during non-instructional time, and says so on every page. The survey does not. Its questions are written so that someone who wants a total ban can answer them as comfortably as someone who wants none, and the two “what concerns you” questions are deliberately symmetric: the same number of options in each direction, with the case against our own position asked first.
The reason is practical rather than noble. These numbers are meant to be read by NJDOE and by legislative staff, and the whole instrument is published verbatim on the methodology page, so they will read the questions too. A leading questionnaire produces a number that is discarded the moment someone does.
What the guidance actually asks districts to do:
Revisit and update the policy annually to reflect stakeholder feedback and emerging digital trends.Communicating Policy
Students are stakeholders. The guidance says so a page earlier, when it tells districts to give families and students opportunities to ask questions and provide feedback. This is where you can give some.