{"id":1195700,"date":"2022-01-07T00:19:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195700"},"modified":"2022-01-07T00:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:19:59","slug":"survey-72-percent-believe-students-should-be-taught-american-exceptionalism-truth-about-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/survey-72-percent-believe-students-should-be-taught-american-exceptionalism-truth-about-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: 72 Percent Believe Students Should Be Taught American Exceptionalism, &#039;Truth About Slavery&#039;"},"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\">26<\/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-72-percent-believe-students-should-be-taught-american-exceptionalism-truth-about-slavery%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=1195700&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\/2022\/01\/us-soldier-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Seventy-two percent of Americans believe that students should be <a href=\"https:\/\/scottrasmussen.com\/84-believe-students-should-be-taught-the-truth-about-slavery-81-believe-they-should-be-taught-america-founded-on-noble-ideals\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Polling%20Update%20January%205%202021&amp;utm_content=Polling%20Update%20January%205%202021+CID_1247293dd4babcaba3b85a678f8f2090&amp;utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software%20MSAZenSendv3&amp;utm_term=public%20schools%20should%20teach%20the%20truth%20about%20slavery\">taught<\/a> both the \u201ctruth about slavery\u201d and that America was founded on the lofty ideals of \u201cfreedom, equality, and self-governance,\u201d according to a new Scott Rasmussen survey.<\/p>\n<p>Fully 84 percent believe students should be taught the truth about slavery and 81 percent believe students should be taught America\u2019s founding ideals.<\/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>Sixty-four percent of respondents also believe students should be taught that America is \u201ca force for good in the world,\u201d while 15 percent disagree and 21 percent are unsure.<\/p>\n<p>According to the SR survey, 79 percent of respondents who support \u201cTrump-like\u201d policies believe students should be taught that America is a force for good, while 73 percent of \u201ctraditional Democrats\u201d and 70 percent of \u201ctraditional Republicans\u201d agree.<\/p>\n<p>Comparatively, only 42 percent of respondents who support policies in line with socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) believe American students should be taught this about their country. Thirty percent of this cohort do not believe a positive message should be taught at all.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Additionally, 42 percent of Americans believe children should be taught something closer to the tenets of critical race theory, which, among other things, contends that America was founded on racism and in order to preserve slavery and white supremacy. Forty-four percent disagree.<\/p>\n<p>While some Americans (40 percent) believe students should be taught that America was \u201cfounded on noble ideals\u201d but not that it was \u201cfounded on racism,\u201d even fewer (30 percent) believe students should be taught both. Nine percent, however, believe that students should be taught the country was founded on racism but none of the noble ideals.<\/p>\n<p>The SR survey was conducted among 1,200 registered voters between December 16 and 17, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The polling comes as the national debate over education rages on, with many on the left believing that critical race theory should be taught \u2014 and they try to hide it under the guise that students ought to learn about slavery when students already do learn about slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, works like the widely-discredited <em>New York Times<\/em> \u201c1619 Project,\u201d which attempts to revise the history surrounding America\u2019s founding and even goes as far as to change the date, are being pushed in school districts across the country. Much like the SR survey questions imply, the \u201c1619 Project\u201d purports that America was founded at the arrival of the first African slaves in the New World, and everything thereafter, including and perhaps especially the American Revolution, was done to preserve that institution.<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>&nbsp;<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-two percent of Americans believe that students should be taught both the \u201ctruth about slavery\u201d and that America was founded on the lofty ideals of \u201cfreedom, equality, and self-governance,\u201d according &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"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-1195700","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\/1195700","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\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195700\/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=1195700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}