If only the voting public — and the media — knew that
If you watch cable TV and read the political press you would think that the entire country is up in arms about the schools, with parents staging massive protests against what their kids are being taught. It’s not true:
By a 42 point margin, Americans back K-12 teaching on “the legacy of slavery and racism and how this history impacts our laws, institutions, and society to this day.” Presented with a brief definition of CRT, even Republicans overwhelmingly reject a ban.
https://murmuration.org/static/2022-Murmuration-Benchmark-Poll-Memo.pdf
Check out these results from the AP/NORC poll. (Forget the leading titles on the graphs.)
I know the only people who matter in America are Real American Trump voters, but this is ridiculous. On half those questions even a majority of them don’t agree. There is some contention on the trans bathroom issues and renaming schools between the two parties but not really that much. These are new issues that people are sorting through. But overall I think these issues are way overplayed.
Americans writ large aren’t calling for the fainting couch over teaching Black history and they don’t want to ban books in school. And although it isn’t asked I highly doubt that a majority of Americans think that gay teachers are “grooming” kids to become transgender. This is yet another ginned up culture war issue that the media always try to turn into a Big national Concern because they just can’t not take the bait.