QUESTIONS
1.
1.
About half of U.S. adults (51%) say the country's public K-12 education system is generally going in the wrong direction. A far smaller share (16%) say it's going in the right direction, and about a third (32%) are not sure, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in November 2023. In your opinion , is the public school system generally going in the wrong direction? Yes
58%
876 votes
No
11%
172 votes
Not sure
30%
452 votes
2.
2.
The survey asked adults who say the public education system is going in the wrong direction why that might be. About half or more say the following are major reasons, which do you agree with? Select all that apply. Schools not spending enough time on core academic subjects, like reading, math, science and social studies (69%)
59%
886 votes
Teachers bringing their personal political and social views into the classroom (54%)
45%
672 votes
Schools not having the funding and resources they need (52%)
44%
657 votes
Parents have too much influence in decisions about what schools are teaching (26%)
27%
398 votes
Other (please specify)
4%
55 votes
Not Applicable
16%
234 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.26% | 7 | |
| Not teaching truth! | 0.04% | 1 |
| Spending too much time on prepping for MCAS, instead of learning | 0.04% | 1 |
| Most people who think they know what's wrong with the system haven't been inside a school building since they themselves were students. | 0.04% | 1 |
| teachers unions being more concerned with their own self-interests rather than with the children | 0.04% | 1 |
| Involving religion | 0.04% | 1 |
| being paid to much at the top and not at the schools | 0.04% | 1 |
| The government controls indoctrination education purposely to train pupils to fall in line and the Dept. of Ed needs to be vacated | 0.04% | 1 |
| Governors, like Ron DeSantis | 0.04% | 1 |
| Not teaching cursive handwriting. Teaching incorrect English grammar--e.g. "Me and (blank-fill in the blank) is totally incorrect. It is not even a subject pronoun and the other person's name or he, she, or it should be the subject, should be first | 0.04% | 1 |
| Idiotic WOKE faculty and school boards | 0.04% | 1 |
| You have too msy consrrbatinmve front groups doing their best ti abolish public education. The voucher program g o.usr Pimlico school finds to givin indidvifia students csn get public school funds I. The form of vouturesuo help.off set yhe cost of Pr | 0.04% | 1 |
| No discipline at home, no attention to child's studies, homework due to busy parents. Lax about firearms In home | 0.04% | 1 |
| Increased money for schools often is spent on 'extras' for students. That results in no classroom time to have a reading and a math class five days a week. | 0.04% | 1 |
| the leftist agenda needs to go | 0.04% | 1 |
| The "woke" Virus | 0.04% | 1 |
| books and subjects being taken from schools | 0.04% | 1 |
| NEED HOME ECONOMICS TO TEACH CLOTHING REPAIRS AND BUDGETING. NEED SHOP TO TOUCH ON TRADES LIKE CAR REPAIRS PLUMBING REPAIRS AND CARPENTRY METAL WORKING. BOTH COURSES FOR ALLSEXES | 0.04% | 1 |
| ALL CHILDREN SHOULD WEAR UNIFORMS FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY | 0.04% | 1 |
| 1. Too much focus on standardized testing. 2.Teachers abusing students. | 0.04% | 1 |
| maga interference | 0.04% | 1 |
| Kids out of control | 0.04% | 1 |
| School administrators making teachers do other things than teach. My wife is a teacher and she has to many other items to do than teach her class. She has to make a plan for each week and send a copy in to her principal. These are unnecessary! | 0.04% | 1 |
| Lack of safety | 0.04% | 1 |
| cancel culture in the schools. | 0.04% | 1 |
| Schools are being undermined by republicans and religious fanatics in order to kill them and force everyone into either expensive private schools or no education at all/ignorance. | 0.04% | 1 |
| too much spent on social equity programs rather than education. | 0.04% | 1 |
| Eliminating non-core subjects, like music and art | 0.04% | 1 |
| Societies new norms | 0.04% | 1 |
| Schools are expected to do too much with too few personnel especially with an influx of non-native English speaking students who additionally may require free lunches, clothing, etc. | 0.04% | 1 |
| Wokeness | 0.04% | 1 |
| GOP trying to burn it down and go private like in Texas. | 0.04% | 1 |
| State governors/legislatures are destroying public education by dictating what can and can't be taught. Need to get back to separation of church and state also. It's all gotten badly out of hand. | 0.04% | 1 |
| Schools not spending enough time on things students will actually use in real life | 0.04% | 1 |
| Leftism and its agenda to inculcate youth | 0.04% | 1 |
| sexualizing the children, making pornographic material available to them | 0.04% | 1 |
| Kids after Covid are acting up and being really bad kids. Are very nasty to teachers. | 0.04% | 1 |
| behaviors that teachers are not allowed to shut down | 0.04% | 1 |
| Neo-Marxist influence | 0.04% | 1 |
| Spending too much time on common core crap and not actually solving equations | 0.04% | 1 |
| People trying to rewrite history | 0.04% | 1 |
| Teaching to the test! | 0.04% | 1 |
| teachers are required to handle chronically disruptive students instead of teaching and some of these students are mentally disturbed | 0.04% | 1 |
| Why are they trying to keep Parents OUT of the classroom ? | 0.04% | 1 |
| Freedom Caucus | 0.04% | 1 |
| teachers get no respect getting attacked spit on and more p | 0.04% | 1 |
| No children in the system | 0.04% | 1 |
| The Board of Education allowing very bad "influencers" into the schools targeting their innocent minds to confuse and even annihilate our pure and innocent children!!! | 0.04% | 1 |
| Brunging lgbtq into indoctrinate kids | 0.04% | 1 |
3.
3.
If you have kids in public school right now, are you happy with the education they are getting? Yes
10%
153 votes
No
10%
157 votes
Undecided
6%
84 votes
Not Applicable
74%
1106 votes
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