The Defining Parental Chasm Of Our Age

Opinion

The Defining Parental Chasm Of Our Age

Jeremy Adams

Last week, a disturbing poll was released in California revealing a titanic divide in parental views of public education. As expected, Democratic parents were far more positive than Republican parents about the overall quality of their children’s public school education. While this divergence of perspectives is hardly surprising, the size of the gap between the two, which can only be described as colossal, is striking.

Seventy-seven percent of Democratic parents believe California’s K-12 public education system is “going in the right direction,” whereas 79% of Republican parents believe the system is “going in the wrong direction.”

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