Flutterby™! : Premises of school surveys

Charlene and I are currently reading Christopher McDougall's Born To Run. We just finished one of the chapters about how when people actually started to apply science to running, all of that crap about padded soles and arch support and pronation that was selling shoes and is still the conventional wisdom if you walk into a "running" store, was clearly shown to be hokum that injures people.

Similarly, I'm currently distilling a whole lot of the accepted wisdom on traffic and transit planning, and comparing that to the published studies on what we actually know about how traffic and transit works, and I'm discovering a whole lot of hogwash.

So I'm kind of on the lookout for "check your premises" rants. Here's one: What parents aren't asked in school surveys, and why.