Most Americans are unhappy with the current K-12 education system, according to a poll released Thursday.
About one in four Americans reported being “completely dissatisfied” with education in America, while 32% are “somewhat dissatisfied,” according to a Gallup poll. Only 9% said they were “completely satisfied” with the education system.
The leading reason for being unsatisfied with the education system was curriculum concerns, specifically “poor/outdated curriculum,” “quality of education is poor/outranked by other countries” and “lack of teaching basics/reading/writing/arithmetic,” the poll showed. About 28% of Americans were mainly concerned with poor resources in schools, with 17% having “political concerns” regarding the classroom. (RELATED: Poll: More Than 8 Out Of 10 People Are Dissatisfied With State Of America)
Students line up in the morning at Yung Wing School P.S. 124 on September 27, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
Curriculum concerns are bipartisan with 58% of Republicans and 52% Democrats stating it as their main concern, the poll stated. Republicans’ trust in the K-12 education has dropped 19% since 2020.
Despite this, parents are satisfied with their oldest child’s education, as 80% said they are “completely or somewhat satisfied” with their education, the poll stated. Just 6% said they were “completely dissatisfied.”
In 2019, 51% of Americans were satisfied with the education system, a near-record high for the Gallup poll.
Gallup randomly surveyed 1,006 adults over the age of 18 from all 50 states, with a 4% margin of error and 95% confidence level. Of those surveyed, 206 had children in the K-12 education system.
Americans’ confidence in the K-12 education system is also lacking, with 28% of Americans reporting they had “a great deal or quite a lot of confidence” in the system, a July Gallup poll showed.
Gallup did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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