When the state delayed release of the 2010 English and math until late July, it meant that families didn't find out their students'  individual scores until mid-August -- and only then if they logged on to ARIS Parent link.  Those who couldn't --  or chose not to -- access ARIS, will get their test results during the first days of school.

In our last poll we asked you if you had logged on to ARIS yet.  More than 600 readers weighed in, with mixed results.  A slim majority of voters -- 53 percent -- said they have logged on to ARIS.  Another 28 percent said they haven't.  Comments, too, were mixed. One commenter called ARIS  a "huge waste of money"; another said it was "a great resource."

Then there's the 17 percent of poll takers who apparently had no idea what this poll was about, voting "ARIS.  What's ARIS?"