{"id":1349469,"date":"2022-02-28T14:07:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T19:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1349469"},"modified":"2022-02-28T14:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T19:07:59","slug":"poll-democrats-lose-historic-advantage-in-handling-education-ahead-of-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-democrats-lose-historic-advantage-in-handling-education-ahead-of-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Democrats Lose Historic Advantage in Handling Education Ahead of Midterms"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fpoll-democrats-lose-historic-advantage-in-handling-education-ahead-of-midterms%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=1349469&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--><p class=\"subheading\">The American people have lost confidence in Democrats\u2019 ability to manage the education of young people as primary season for the 2022 midterms begins March 1 \u2014 an issue on which they have historically won.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21274844-2022-02-24-trend-for-release\">asked<\/a> which political party they trust to do a better job handling \u201ceducation and schools,\u201d only 44 percent of the respondents to a <em>Washington Post<\/em>-ABC News poll said they had confidence in Democrats. Their lead over Republicans (41 percent) has narrowed compared to data from past iterations of the question, but what is more interesting is that the trust in \u201cneither\u201d party is at its highest point (ten percent) since 1994.<\/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>The poll was conducted from February 20 to 24, 2022, among 1,011 adults with a margin of error of +\/- 4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Americans\u2019 trust in the public education system has diminished greatly, particularly over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, which saw draconian policies, indoctrination schemes, and gender theory turn school board meetings into political powder kegs, and a fast-growing parental rights movement characterized by mass organization, lawsuits, and what many believe to be a bellwether election in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the number of parents sending their children to private schools or homeschooling them has skyrocketed over the past two years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_14379322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Homeschool-family-at-table-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14379322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Homeschool-family-at-table-ap.jpg\" alt=\"Uwe Romeike and his wife Hannelore work with their children Daniel (13 yrs.), Lydia (10 yrs.), Josua (9 yrs.), Christian (7 yrs.) and Damaris (3 yrs.) at their home Friday, March 13, 2009 in Morristown, Tenn. The couple have moved into a modest duplex home while they seek political asylum because they say they were persecuted for their religious beliefs by home-schooling their young children in Germany. School attendance is compulsory there and educating children at home is not allowed. (AP Photo\/Wade Payne)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">AP Photo\/Wade Payne<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Early in the pandemic, 40 percent of American families <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/05\/14\/poll-40-of-families-more-likely-to-homeschool-when-pandemic-ends\/\">said<\/a> they would be more likely to homeschool after the pandemic was over. The same poll showed strong support (64 percent) among Americans for allowing parents to use tax dollars designated for education to pay for the schooling of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>Major public school districts across the country are hemorrhaging\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/19\/teacher-shortages-crippling-nations-public-schools\/\">teachers<\/a>, further driving parents toward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2022\/01\/31\/christian-schools-see-growing-enrollments-as-public-schools-decline\/\">replacements<\/a> for failing government schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany education bureaucrats blame the coronavirus pandemic for their plunging enrollment numbers,\u201d as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2022\/01\/03\/2022-public-schools-continue-to-shed-students-as-homeschooling-surges\/\">reported<\/a>, \u201cbut parents are pulling their children out of government schools because of COVID-related mandates and the infiltration of Critical Race Theory (CRT) principles and LGBTQ activist materials in curricula as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18918234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233449819-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18918234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233449819-2.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds up a sign during a rally against \" critical race theory \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman holds up a sign during a rally against \u201cCritical Race Theory\u201d (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government Center in Leesburg, Virginia, on June 12, 2021 (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The issue looms over Democrats, who are already expected to see heavy losses in November.<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>\u00a0<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter\u00a0<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>The American people have lost confidence in Democrats\u2019 ability to manage the education of young people as primary season for the 2022 midterms begins March 1 \u2014 an issue on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1349469","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\/1349469","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349469\/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=1349469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}