{"id":1046106,"date":"2021-11-22T22:13:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T03:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1046106"},"modified":"2021-11-22T22:13:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T03:13:44","slug":"survey-63-of-americans-believe-parents-have-final-say-in-public-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/survey-63-of-americans-believe-parents-have-final-say-in-public-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: 63% of Americans Believe Parents Have \u2018Final Say\u2019 in Public Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsurvey-63-of-americans-believe-parents-have-final-say-in-public-education%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1046106&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Classroom-640x335-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A supermajority of Americans surveyed say parents are the primary educators of their children and should have the \u201cfinal say\u201d in the content of what their children are taught in public schools.<\/p>\n<p>A survey <a href=\"https:\/\/becketnewsite.s3.amazonaws.com\/2021-Religious-Freedom-Index.pdf\">conducted<\/a> by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty this week revealed 63 percent of respondents believe \u201cparents should have the final say \u2026 and should be able to opt out of morally objectionable or inappropriate content,\u201d while 37 percent say, \u201cpublic schools should have the final say\u201d with no \u201copt out\u201d for parents.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMajorities of Democrat, Independent, and Republican respondents all sided with this opinion, though to varying degrees,\u201d the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty noted, adding:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p>Among Democrats, a slight majority, 52 percent, sided with this opinion, compared with 64 percent of Independents and 74 percent of Republicans. Whether respondents had children in the home or not had little impact on opinion\u201466 percent of those who had children in the home sided with this opinion compared to 61 percent of those without children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The question was part of the Becket Fund\u2019s third annual Religious Freedom Index, which is, according to Becket, a \u201cholistic view of changes in American attitudes on religious liberty,\u201d based on responses from 1,000 Americans to questions that cover a wide array of religious liberty protections under the First Amendment of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Survey participants\u2019 responses to 21 questions are used to compile a \u201cReligious Freedom Index,\u201d a measure of support for religious liberty in the United States.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In 2019, the Religious Freedom Index was 67. The index dropped to 66 last year, and, this year, reached 68.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.660130718954\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Terry McAuliffe should learn Virginia law. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VAgov?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VAgov<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a7 1-240.1. Rights of parents.<br \/>A parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent&#8217;s child. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0EDigYoCze\">https:\/\/t.co\/0EDigYoCze<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/shFwGDg8Lf\">pic.twitter.com\/shFwGDg8Lf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennYoungkin\/status\/1443037359419924482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The results of the education survey question come weeks after a&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em> poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/29\/washington-post-poll-education-no-1-issue-in-virginia-governors-race\/\">found<\/a> education was the top issue for Virginia voters in the governor\u2019s race, one that ultimately handed Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) a victory over former Democrat Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe.<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin repeatedly listened to the concerns of Virginia parents regarding the teaching of tenets of Critical Race Theory, LGBTQ activist curricula, and mandates related to COVID-19, asserting, \u201cI believe parents should be in charge of their kids\u2019 education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McAuliffe, however, clearly stated, \u201cI don\u2019t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A supermajority of Americans surveyed say parents are the primary educators of their children and should have the \u201cfinal say\u201d in the content of what their children are taught in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}