A national teachers union that’s OPPOSING Gov. Ron DeSantis ran a poll in 2022 battleground states to try and prove that parents and voters WANT them to indoctrinate America’s children. Let’s just say things didn’t go quite the way they’d hoped.
Turns out that parents do NOT want teachers telling kids to question the validity of their own reproductive organs or teaching them that they are all racists.
Well ALMOST all.
Anyway, this is glorious.
DeSantis' education message is winning in battleground states, teacher union poll finds
DeSantis was bitterly criticized on the left for his ed policies & rhetoric, but battleground voters favor much of it
@MarcACaputo @jonallendc report https://t.co/dmVdwx35tz
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 16, 2022
A poll from a Dem firm for one of the largest teachers unions in the country shows voters overwhelmingly support Ron DeSantis' approach to education policy in Florida: https://t.co/bLAV3hsIX4 pic.twitter.com/bE2RrFY329
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 16, 2022
“The poll question [from the Democratic firm Hart Research] found that voters, by a 32 percentage-point margin, said they were more likely to vote for candidates who believe public schools should focus less on teaching race and more on core subjects.” https://t.co/8JybS4zuUX
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) July 16, 2022
From the article:
A major set of red flags in the poll for Democrats and teacher unions was a series of questions that look like they were ripped from DeSantis’s Friday speech on “critical race theory” and teaching kids about sexuality and gender identity. While the survey didn’t mention DeSantis by name, it tested education messages he popularized nationally — more so than Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican who won in a Democratic-leaning state last year on a parental-rights education platform that was far less provocative than DeSantis’.
One poll question found that voters, by a 32 percentage-point margin, said they were more likely to vote for candidates who believe public schools should focus less on teaching race and more on core subjects. By 27 points, they said schools should be banned from teaching sexual orientation and gender identity to kids in kindergarten through third grade. By 28 points, they said transgender athletes should be banned from competing in girls’ sports.
The same poll suggests DeSantis has been smart about where to draw the line. Most voters said they would be less likely to back candidates who want to prosecute teachers for instructing students on critical race theory and gender identity. The same goes for candidates who want books removed from school libraries, although DeSantis on Friday bashed some books as being too sexualized, and some Florida schools are banning books.
“DeSantis has been reasonably shrewd in choosing his culture war initiatives, avoiding toxic ideas like criminally prosecuting teachers,” Guy Molyneux, one of the pollsters who conducted the survey, said in an email to NBC News.
It’s an NBC story so it really goes off the rails after that. Can’t fix stupid.
But, it turns out, you CAN convince the American people not to VOTE for stupid.
So bad news for you Democrats. And teachers unions. Tick tock.
Consider this an OPEN THREAD.
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