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Okay. Americans are deeply divided over the teaching of

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racism and sexuality in K through 12 schools reflecting a

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sharply politicized national debate that has consumed local school boards

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and state capitals. That's according to a new poll

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from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

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and the Associated Press Norc Center for Public Affairs Research

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. Americans overall lean slightly toward expanding, not cutting

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back discussions of racism and sexuality, but roughly four

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in 10 say the current approaches, right, right

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? You're not just going there to get an intellectual

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education, you're going there to get a social education

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as well. You're going there to learn how to

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be a person in this world, how to function

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in society, how to relate to people to help

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make sure that my daughter grows up viewing people equally

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, no matter what body you're born in, no

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matter how you present gender wise, no matter what

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the color of your skin is that everybody is a

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person and deserves to be happy, healthy and deserves

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respect. We shouldn't weaponize kids for our political issues

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. Kids need to have freedom to grow and learn

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. They need to have space, they need to

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be protected, protected. Um No, kids should

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be forced to learn about anything if they don't want

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. I think kids should be able to have more

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say in their education. Opposition to teaching about sexuality

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and racism has become a rallying point for republicans and

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is expected to play a major role in this year's

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midterm elections. Mhm Virginia's new Republican Governor Glenn junkin

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campaigned on boosting parental rights and banning critical race theory

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. I think we've got to respect kids that they're

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learning that they're young and they're delicate and they're not

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as resilient as adults when it comes to different ideas

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and theories and teaching them about racism may not help

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them. And in florida, governor Ron DeSantis signed

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a bill that bars instruction of sexual orientation and gender

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identity in kindergarten through third grade. If you want

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small government, then we shouldn't be wasting tax resources

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to come up with bills to control a small school

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And what bathroom a child uses or the words a

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teacher says to teach a gender to a class.

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You know, that doesn't make any sense to me

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. The same survey shows about 50% of Americans say

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both parents and teachers have too little influence on curriculum

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in schools. And so teachers wanted parents need it

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. And the way that you better education for our

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kids is when teachers and parents are partners. So

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that's what we should be doing, not having new

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laws with more paperwork and when there's these kind of

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limitations and this kind of chill and this kind of

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being afraid of even being able to answer a child's

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questions or create the little, you know, relationships

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with Children based upon their lived experience in new york

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, this is terrible. These non political consequences of

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this political wedge, these long term hurt Children,

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Nathan Algren, the Associated Press