Ridgewood Parents: Your Opinion of Skyward? [Poll]

Ridgewood Public Schools is asking for the unvarnished truth from parents on its new student information technology system, Skyward.

According to a news release sent this week, officials will be releasing its third annual parent survey on May 7, soliciting opinions only on the online info system. focused on the entirety of education in Ridgewood, and found generally very favorable results.

Skyward, , has had a few kinks but is seen by administrators as an obvious step up from what it replaced – the old "Sasi" system and the traditional mail box. 

Among the many things Skyward does is allows parents to check out student info, look at grades on the fly, check attendance and classroom messages, fund the students' food account, and register and pay activity and testing fees.

Parents at the start of the 2011-2012 school year expressed some confusion with the and how to make payments (which was quickly corrected), and there were also a , one of which prevented the district from sending some 300 letters to parents.

The seven-question survey should hit e-mail inboxes on Monday, May 7.

"All parents and guardians with e-mail addresses on file with the school district will be sent a separate survey link for every school their children currently attend," the district said in the news release. "Parents and guardians will have until Friday, May 18, to complete the surveys. All responses and comments are completely anonymous."

Responses will be made known to administrators, principals and school board members. A dedicated e-mail address has been set up to take questions or concerns at survey12@ridgewood.k12.nj.us.

You'll get your chance to answer the questions on May 7, but we've set up an unscientific poll below. Make sure to comment as to why you voted the way you did.