With three weeks to go until the midterm elections, a majority of American parents are expressing concern about the state of public education as the issue remains at the forefront of United States politics.
A Fox News poll released Tuesday revealed that most American parents believe that public schools in the United States are too focused on race and expressed concern that parents do not have enough say over what children learn in school. The survey, conducted from Oct. 9-12, examined the opinions of 1,206 registered voters on various issues facing the country ahead of next month’s midterm elections.
Parents, along with moms and dads on an individual basis, constituted some of the several demographic subgroups whose responses were analyzed in the crosstabs of the poll. Four of the questions in the poll dealt specifically with public education in the U.S.
The first question asked respondents if there was “too much of a focus on race in schools.” Sixty percent of the overall sample answered in the affirmative, with 36% believing that a focus on race was “not a problem.” Among parents, the share of respondents who think a focus on race amounts to a problem rose slightly to 61%. While 68% of moms expressed concern about the focus on race in public schools, just 54% of dads said the same.
The second question in the survey asked U.S. voters if they thought “parents not having enough say over what is taught” in schools was a problem. A supermajority of respondents (64%) characterized lack of parental input in school curriculum as a problem while 32% did not.
An even larger number of parents (70%) believed that they did not have enough say in what their children learned in school. There was little difference in the opinion of moms and dads on the matter, with 71% of moms and 68% of dads suggesting that parents did not have enough say in what goes on at school.
When asked about “overly accommodating transgender policies” for trans-identified students, 60% of respondents cited such policies as a problem while 35% did not. Sixty-three percent of moms identified liberal policies regarding trans-identified students as a problem as did 57% of dads.
sexually explicit books in school libraries as well as part of school curriculum has caused school districts to re-examine the material accessible to students. In McMinn County, Tennessee, for example, the school board voted to remove the graphic novel Maus from the public schools due to its graphic depiction of a character’s suicide. Critics of the move, including a local Episcopal church, contended that the book contains valuable lessons about the Holocaust and Christianity.
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