Parents are divided on how much their children have recovered from pandemic-related learning loss.
Matthew “Cody” Conner, of Virginia Beach, listens to students speak during at a Virginia Beach school board meeting in August. Conner has a cisgender son and a transgender daughter. Education is an important factor for many Virginia voters this fall, but transgender issues, one of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s most controversial education cornerstones, is a low priority for voters, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll.
“I’m not seeing in the data that the trans issue and how that is playing in public schools is a big driver right now in the electorate,” said Mark J. Rozell, dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.Youngkin’s policies direct students to use school facilities that match their biological sex and make it harder for them to change their name or pronouns at school.
In three out of four cases, more voters opposed allowing trans students to do various things than supported specific restrictions. For example, 70 percent of voters say they’re against “allowing trans girls to compete in sports against other girls,” far more than the 45 percent who support “preventing trans girls from competing in sports with other girls.”
“We’re talking about making a handful of people comfortable at risk of making more people feel uncomfortable,” Sweetser, 58, said. “There’s too much emphasis on this coming from the government. Every time you do something sweepy across the board, a lot of people get screwed.”The Post-Schar School poll finds that 54 percent of Virginia voters personally know someone who is transgender; this group is more likely to oppose some restrictive policies but not others.
Parents agree on other education issues, such as pandemic-fueled learning loss. According to The Post-Schar School poll, 65 percent of parents with kids in schools say at least some of their children were losing ground academically during the covid-19 pandemic. About a quarter say they did not lose ground.
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