School system caught lying about uniform survey

You know, it's one thing when everyone knows a school lied about the results of a survey on uniforms, but you just can't prove it.

But it's a whole other animal when a school district actually gets caught with its shit-caked pantaloons down around its ankles - twice, no less.

And that's what happened in Springfield, Illinois.

School officials are downright determined - determined, I tell ya - to require students to wear uniforms at one of the city's elementary schools next year. They sent out a survey earlier this year asking parents' opinions about the matter. The school district reported that 64% of parents favored an "enhanced dress code."

But this turned out to be an out-and-out lie.

When a parent inspected the surveys, he found that only 48% supported it. And probably not even that many supported uniforms. The poll asked about an "enhanced dress code" - not necessarily uniforms.

I wonder what school officials have to say for themselves after being caught red-handed lying about the survey results.

What was the point in even sending out a survey? It was just so the school district could claim one was sent out. It was nothing but a dog-and-pony show.

What's even more astounding is that almost the exact same thing happened a few years ago! One Springfield public school was caught rigging a survey on uniforms several years back. Didn't the school district learn its lesson from that?

A school lied??? Naaah, we all know that no school would ever, ever lie about anything, right? All this business about schools lying is just our imagination, isn't it?

(Source: http://www.sj-r.com/homepage/x2133277898/Addams-uniform-proposal-causes-controversy)