Critics have criticized a new Florida state law restricting gender and sexual orientation training for young academics in public schools, but a majority of the electorate approves of the law.
Rasmussen Reports’ most recent national telephone and online poll shows that 62 percent of the American electorate would likely pass a law like the Florida Parent Rights in Education Act in their own state, with forty-five percent in favor of the measure. Twenty-nine% (29%) would oppose a similar law in their own state, with 19% strongly opposing it. (To see the wording of the survey questions, click here. )
The applicable passage of the Act reads as follows: “Classroom instruction through school or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity would possibly not take a position from kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not appropriate for the age or progression of students in accordance with state standards. “
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Seventy-four percent (74 percent) of Republicans, 49 percent of Democrats, and 66 percent of the electorate not affiliated with either primary party would accept a law like Florida’s in their own state.
Critics have called for a boycott in Florida over the new law, but the top electorate rejects the idea. Fifty-one% (51%) oppose a boycott in Florida over the new school law, and 41% strongly oppose the boycott. Thirty-nine% (39%) boycott florida, with 22% strongly boycotting. Another 10% are not sure.
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The poll of 1,000 probably U. S. voters is likely to be a U. S. voter. The U. S. Department of Homeland Security conducted march 15 and 16, 2022 through Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is /- 3 percentage problems with a 95% confidence point. Fieldwork for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is done through Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
A majority (57%) of the Democratic electorate boycotting the new law in Florida, but 62% of Republicans and 60% of the unaffiliated electorate oppose such a boycott.
Seventy-five percent (75 percent) of the electorate say they have stuck closely to recent news about Florida’s law restricting schooling on the basis of gender and sexual orientation in public schools, and 37 percent have stuck heavily to news about Florida law. Twenty-three percent (23 percent) were very attached to the news about Florida’s new school law.
Of the electorate that followed the News of Florida law very closely, 69% would prefer a similar law in their own state, while 28% would oppose such a law.
Majorities in each and every racial category (63 percent white, 61 percent black voters, and 64 percent other minorities) would pass a law similar to the Florida Parent Rights in Education Act in their own state.
A majority (54%) of the electorate under the age of 40 considers the concept of boycotting Florida because of the new law restricting schooling by gender and sexual orientation in public schools, but 60% of the electorate aged 40 to 64 and 54% of those aged 65 and over oppose a boycott of Florida.
Government personnel are much more likely than private sector personnel to the idea of boycotting Florida over the new law.
President Joe Biden’s staunchest supporters are the most opposed to the parent rights in education bill and likely most to a boycott of the new law in Florida. in their own state and 73% would accept the concept of boycotting Florida. In contrast, among the electorate that strongly disapproves of Biden’s functionality, 80 percent would prefer a florida-like law in their own state and 76 percent would oppose boycotting Florida over the new law.
Most American parents are right to engage in questionable training in public schools and reject the claim that those are “fake” problems.
Many parents are involved in the books provided to young people in schools and libraries, especially those that advertise “awakened” progressive ideals about sexuality and racial issues.
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The poll of 1,000 probably U. S. voters is likely to be a U. S. voter. The U. S. Department of Homeland Security conducted march 15 and 16, 2022 through Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is /- 3 percentage problems with a 95% confidence point. Fieldwork for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is done through Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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