About Ting

Ting is a structured-input parent-advocacy site for one school's worth of families at a time. It exists to channel the energy that already shows up at PTA and Board of Education meetings into a form the board (and everyone else) can read on one page.

Why "Ting"?

From Old Norse þing — the open-air assemblies of early medieval Scandinavia where free people gathered to debate, decide, and settle disputes. The most famous is the Althing (Alþingi), Iceland's national assembly established in 930 CE, one of the oldest continuously functioning legislative bodies in the world. Norway's parliament is still called the Storting, Denmark's the Folketing — the word survived a thousand years.

The name fits: anyone with a code is a free participant; every voice is heard; the aggregate is what matters. The structure forces real prioritization rather than a louder-shout-wins dynamic. We just gave a modern web shape to a very old idea.

What it asks you

The survey uses three kinds of question:

• Ranking — drag the options into order of importance to your family. Aggregated as a Borda count (each rank position contributes points; higher position, more points). This forces real prioritization rather than "everything is important."
• NPS (Net Promoter Score) — a 0-to-10 question about governance bodies (BoE, union, PTA, this site itself). Aggregated as % promoters (9-10) minus % detractors (0-6), giving a score from -100 to +100.
• Agreement (Likert scale) — a five-point scale on a specific statement. Aggregated as a distribution histogram and a headline percentage who agree or strongly agree.

Plain-language explanations of each method with primary academic sources (Borda 1781, Reichheld 2003 NPS, Likert 1932) will be added here before the first board-meeting deliverable.

What it doesn't do

• No accounts, no email, no password.
• No IP addresses are stored on disk.
• No third-party trackers, no fingerprinting, no cookies beyond a session token.
• Your most-recent answer always wins; revising is encouraged.