Americans overwhelmingly reelected President Donald Trump for various reasons, the top ones being the economy and immigration. But voters, a huge number of whom are parents, have become increasingly dissatisfied with the American education system. They are forced to send their children to schools that are teaching very different values than what kids are learning at home. Now, a new poll is out showing just how frustrated and disillusioned parents are. Fortunately, it is something that Donald Trump has said would be a priority for him in his second term.

School choice sets kids free!

On this National School Choice Week, we celebrate the magic that is education!

School choice is not a political issue. Students’ zip codes should not dictate their education. pic.twitter.com/a9G4Auwbxi

— Tim Scott (@votetimscott) January 27, 2025

The poll was conducted by Fabrizio, Lee & Associates, and is a public research firm that also worked on Trump's presidential campaigns. It was conducted after Trump spoke on the campaign trail about eliminating the Department of Education. It revealed some very compelling numbers, polling 1,000 registered voters nationally with a 400 Hispanic oversample between January 5-8, 2025. Of those surveyed, 75 percent said they rate public education in the U.S. as fair or poor. More numbers spell bad news for those who make up local school boards, teachers' unions, and, in general, the government. By almost a 2-1 margin, the parents surveyed said that parents should be in charge of their children's education. 

READ MORE: Trump's Education Department Fires Biden 'Book Ban' Czar and Dismantles His Office

An almost equal number said public education was not getting the job done, and 74 percent said they favor school choice so they could decide whether to send their kids to public, private, or a technical or trade school. A whopping 81 percent stated that if the federal government is involved, they should "empower parents" and “prioritize students’ needs by providing greater access and more choices to ensure children receive the best education.” Those surveyed also said that parents are the ones who should be deciding their children's education and not teachers' unions.

One indicator of why Donald Trump did well with Hispanic voters during the election could be the fact that Hispanics, by a very large margin, support school choice at 78 percent, and 87 percent said they should be empowered to decide what is best for their child's education. Help may be on the way. A Republican-led bill called the "Education Choice for Children Act" (ECCA), introduced by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), would permit individuals and businesses to make donations to non-profit scholarship-granting organizations. Those donations allow parents to send their kids to a school they feel best fits their needs. The legislation was introduced in January of 2023, but a Democrat-led Senate sat on it. With a new GOP-controlled Senate, the bill may finally see some light. The poll showed that not only would 65 percent of respondents support the bill, but they would be more inclined to support lawmakers who vote in favor of it.

Teaching vs indoctrination. Just in the past 4 years, we've seen this grooming and indoctrination reach all the way down to kindergarten.
Programs like Critical Race Theory should be banned.
Teach our kids math, science... reading and writing!
Let's get education back on track! pic.twitter.com/0a6vkFVsrm

— 🇺🇸 🍑Catherine🍑 🇺🇸 (@cat_barnes30) January 26, 2025

The American Education system has really done itself in. From teachers' unions playing a large role in the shuttering of schools during COVID, which led to some of the shocking levels of learning loss among students, to parents discovering by getting a birds-eye view into their child's classroom via virtual learning that blatant left-wing ideology was being pushed on their children—things like critical race theory and the trans agenda. Then, there are the millions of taxpayer dollars used to further DEI in public schools, like $489,883,797 for race-based hiring, $343,337,286 for DEI "programming," and $169,301,221 for DEI mental health "initiatives." 

ALSO READ: Let's Get Serious About Reducing Government, Mr. President. Part V - K-12 Education

While campaigning, Trump stated several times his desire to get rid of the Department of Education and send that power back to the states. A survey from Parents Defending Education (PDE) shows that a large number of parents would back him up in “reducing the size and influence of the U.S. Department of Education” so that it would give individual states "more flexibility on how they run their school districts.”  

Decades of Democrat policies and their caving to the demands of powerful teachers' unions have left American parents extremely unhappy with the education system. Donald Trump was elected because he listened to those parents and is willing to fix it.  

Bottom line is the American education system has failed the youth and it will eventually (if it's not already) have consequences for all Americans.

That's what this boils down to. We need education reform and we needed it yesterday.

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) December 27, 2024