TODAY IS
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 2021
TRUMP’S ONE-HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIFTH DAY OUT-OF-OFFICE
AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS NOW TODAY’S DEFINING CULTURE-WAR ISSUE
No To Teaching CRT,
Yes To Traditional Values Classes
By: Paul Bedard
Washington Examiner
Despite efforts by liberal media outlets to portray parental opposition to critical race theory and other restyled history lessons as a limited phenomenon, new polling shows that it is a national movement.
In two separate Rasmussen Reports surveys, for example, overwhelming majorities back the teaching of traditional Western “values” and fear that CRT will make race relations worse.
The surveys fly in the face of reporting that the outcry against the race-based look at history is happening only in mostly conservative pockets of the nation. Washington-based journalists have made that claim even though the biggest fights over CRT have happened in nearby wealthy counties won by President Joe Biden and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton.
In its latest survey, Rasmussen today said that 78% support the teaching of traditional Western civilization values.
“At a time when many schools are embroiled in controversy over the teaching of Critical Race Theory, voters still think it is important that kids learn traditional values in school. A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports finds that 78% of likely U.S. voters say it’s at least somewhat important for schools to teach the traditional values of Western civilization, including 52% who say it’s ‘Very Important,’” said the analysis.
Notably, said Rasmussen, those results are in line with past surveys on the issue even though Democrats in Washington have been pushing for radical liberal changes since Biden won.
That survey followed another in which voters by a margin of 43%-24% fear teaching CRT will worsen race relations.
What’s more, the teaching of Western values is supported by most groups, including blacks and Democrats.
“Teaching Western values in schools is considered at least somewhat important by 78% of whites, 74% of black voters, and 77% of other minorities. Black and other minority voters are more likely than whites to think most schools don’t do a good job of teaching traditional values,” said Rasmussen. 