Americans have given public schools a failing grade.
A recent poll has shown that only 28 percent of U.S. residents have “a lot of confidence” in public education.
Conducted and published by Gallup, the poll deems this lack of confidence as a “near all-time low.”
What’s more, this increase in a lack of faith can be seen across both major parties: While 43 percent of registered Democrats express having confidence in the public education sector, that number has been in decline since 2020 (and has generally been more down than up over the past five decades).
Only 14 percent of Republicans, on the other hand, have such confidence, with 29 percent of Independents admitting to the same sentiment.
“Today’s 29-point gap between Republican and Democratic confidence in public schools contrasts with an average seven points since the start of Gallup’s Confidence in Institutions trend in 1973,” reads the poll. “Except for a 25-point gap last year, the previous high was 19 points in 2013, likely related to partisan disagreement over the Common Core educational standards at the time.”
However, Gallup notes that criticism with concerns to schools has certainly become more politicized: Debates regarding certain aspects of schools’ curricula—such as critical race theory and gender theory—came to a head during the pandemic and into current times.
“Closer to 40 percent of Americans were confident in public schools most years from 1989 to 2006,” states the poll. “Before that, half or more said they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence, except for a short period from 1981 to 1983 when confidence dipped lower.”
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And just what do they see that is so deserving of commendation?
For years I have watched my towns PTA rape our community. Our kids on a whole are not well versed in history, language, math, and English. Yet the teachers are making more money than me and have benefits far exceeding what I get for half the price. Seems this is what is important to the teachers and not education.
GET RID OF all teacher unions!
That is probably the fault of the teacher’s union and not the Parent Teachers Association. And, having spent years in the union I have only one thing to say, Defund the unions too!
We spend more money on public education than ANY OTHER country in the industrialized world, and we rank 29th in proficiency of our students. In other words, we are FAILING to educate our kids to compete in the real world. That is why private school enrollment, and home schooling continues to go up each year. If you want your kids EDUCATED, instead of INDOCTRINATED, you have no other choices.
Disband the NEA and make education a privilege instead of a right. Children who are motivated and well behaved should be the ones populating the schools. The rest can get used to saying, would you like fries with that.
Especially higher education. NO WAY IN HELL that should be ‘a right’.
Is it any wonder? For years the Department of Education’s bureaucracy has been complicite in undermining the system of education with the systemic introduction of liberal socialist ideas into the curiculum in a piecemeal fashion so as not to arouse suspicion. Though directors often touted extreme positions on race or sex and other studies the every day teachers were inculcated with the liberal dogma and spread it sublely to their students until the pandemic when concerned parents were exposed to what was being taught via virtual learning. Can you trust a teacher who tells your child they are oppressed or an oppressor? Can you trust a teacher who tells your child they can chose their sex? Can you trust a teacher who tells your child socialism is better than capitalism? Can you trust a teacher who salutes the BLM or Rainbow flags instead of the Stars and Stripes? And where does this come from? The National Education Association and the Department of Education!
After years of democrats lowering standards for poc. Our schools have failed all students. We need to raise standards. Stop preaching crt and teach .I’m ready to go back to Segregation. Where white kids can be safe and learn .
I’d even go so far as to say we need to segregate them BY SEX.. Especially at the college/uni level..