hmmm, it's all over the news, AXIOS reported it... Gallop poll showing satisfaction w/ K-12 has hit an all-time low. This could fit under the latest findings & my long-term knowledge of personality tests. Folks love the results of personality tests, & astrology & all that stuff. They say what you want to hear. You answer how you think you want to be. Even w/ Myers Briggs all the twists & turns that that personality test claims will weed out the 'answer the way you want to be' kind of stuff, it really doesn't. I could dig up the latest findings to back that up, but for now I'll get to the point of this education poll. Folks who cannot get out of the education system will be the most prone to say it's ok. They don't want to say anything like 'My child is suffering & I'll just let him/her suffer'. Or they don't answer the poll. When I had my business, way back in the dark ages, working w/ kids in day care centers, some of those centers I visited were, to be quite frank, atrocious. The parents had no choice. That was before stricter regulations were in place, & those parents, w/ no choice, rated those centers as great.
ok, saying all that, here's the link to the Gallop poll, showing an all time low, which could, based on my ramblings, be even lower. Thank you, Teachers' Unions everywhere, even w/ more & more $$$ poured in:
Oh, there are some places, Chicago?/& or other blue areas?, but maybe since they've been 'caught' they quit, where leaders of the TU, School Board & other higher ups sent their kids to private schools instead of public. ie: Stacy Davis Gates is the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, and she sends her kid(s) to a private Catholic School saying "her family believed a private school offered her son opportunities they couldn’t find nearby in Chicago Public Schools." But she doesn't believe in free choice for other parents.
TX has closed several failing schools. These schools were failing for years, but, hey, the Teacher's Union opposed the way schools were rated & tried hard for many years to not provide the information directly. Rankings were buried in lengthy PDF reports, the media didn't cover it at all, parents didn't know schools were rated. Then in 2019 things changed. The A–F system launched. More understandable for the general public. The state strengthened the “five‑years‑failing = closure/takeover” rule. This rule existed earlier, but enforcement tightened around 2017–2023, especially after a Houston ISD case (Wheatly HS had 7 consecutive failing yrs. Court battles, went to TX Supreme Court, became very public, which led to the state enforcing the five‑year failing rule — even if it means taking over the largest district in Texas.). Districts began warning parents: If this campus doesn’t improve, the state may close it. That was brand new to parents. They, & the public, because the media picked it up, now knew how many yrs each school had been failing, & what was required to show improvement.
As of Aug 2026 at least 150 campuses have closed or been approved for closure in the past three years, and a portion of those closures were directly tied to accountability failures rather than enrollment or financial issues. What the Teacher's Union wants: higher pay for high‑need campuses, more funding for tutoring, smaller class sizes, more counselors and intervention staff, updated materials and technology, competitive teacher pay to reduce turnover, no charter schools which have been approved. In other words: more money & do not take away their control.
hmmm, it's all over the news, AXIOS reported it... Gallop poll showing satisfaction w/ K-12 has hit an all-time low. This could fit under the latest findings & my long-term knowledge of personality tests. Folks love the results of personality tests, & astrology & all that stuff. They say what you want to hear. You answer how you think you want to be. Even w/ Myers Briggs all the twists & turns that that personality test claims will weed out the 'answer the way you want to be' kind of stuff, it really doesn't. I could dig up the latest findings to back that up, but for now I'll get to the point of this education poll. Folks who cannot get out of the education system will be the most prone to say it's ok. They don't want to say anything like 'My child is suffering & I'll just let him/her suffer'. Or they don't answer the poll. When I had my business, way back in the dark ages, working w/ kids in day care centers, some of those centers I visited were, to be quite frank, atrocious. The parents had no choice. That was before stricter regulations were in place, & those parents, w/ no choice, rated those centers as great.
ok, saying all that, here's the link to the Gallop poll, showing an all time low, which could, based on my ramblings, be even lower. Thank you, Teachers' Unions everywhere, even w/ more & more $$$ poured in:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/714017/satisfaction-education-hits-new-low.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_content=morelink&utm_campaign=syndication
Oh, there are some places, Chicago?/& or other blue areas?, but maybe since they've been 'caught' they quit, where leaders of the TU, School Board & other higher ups sent their kids to private schools instead of public. ie: Stacy Davis Gates is the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, and she sends her kid(s) to a private Catholic School saying "her family believed a private school offered her son opportunities they couldn’t find nearby in Chicago Public Schools." But she doesn't believe in free choice for other parents.
TX has closed several failing schools. These schools were failing for years, but, hey, the Teacher's Union opposed the way schools were rated & tried hard for many years to not provide the information directly. Rankings were buried in lengthy PDF reports, the media didn't cover it at all, parents didn't know schools were rated. Then in 2019 things changed. The A–F system launched. More understandable for the general public. The state strengthened the “five‑years‑failing = closure/takeover” rule. This rule existed earlier, but enforcement tightened around 2017–2023, especially after a Houston ISD case (Wheatly HS had 7 consecutive failing yrs. Court battles, went to TX Supreme Court, became very public, which led to the state enforcing the five‑year failing rule — even if it means taking over the largest district in Texas.). Districts began warning parents: If this campus doesn’t improve, the state may close it. That was brand new to parents. They, & the public, because the media picked it up, now knew how many yrs each school had been failing, & what was required to show improvement.
As of Aug 2026 at least 150 campuses have closed or been approved for closure in the past three years, and a portion of those closures were directly tied to accountability failures rather than enrollment or financial issues. What the Teacher's Union wants: higher pay for high‑need campuses, more funding for tutoring, smaller class sizes, more counselors and intervention staff, updated materials and technology, competitive teacher pay to reduce turnover, no charter schools which have been approved. In other words: more money & do not take away their control.