Former Long Beach Island Consolidated Board of Education member Rick McDonough is backing up his words of advice to sitting board members earlier this year: make a data-driven decision regarding the district’s two elementary schools and not an emotional one. To that end, he’s put together a nine-question survey for registered voters and taxpayers in the district’s five Island communities to gauge community feelings on an issue being batted around for a decade.

McDonough, who has asked the board on different occasions to sponsor a survey for the community, said he consulted…