Small Majority of Parents Say: Open Up Our School Campuses!
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/24/20
A
slight majority of parents want schools to reopen this fall for
in-person learning, and conservatives especially want that to happen.
Fifty-five percent of people nationwide told WalletHub
researchers
schools needed to open their campuses. A third of respondents (32
percent) said it wasn't possible for them to work from home. But the
main reason why parents said it was important for schools to reopen
was, according to four in five respondents, for "kids'
development"; just 10 percent said it was so parents could go
back to work.
The
survey asked 1,200 parents a set of questions between July 21 and 28,
2020. WalletHub
is a personal finance company that helps people improve their credit
scores and is owned by a financial
services company.
Two-thirds
of parents said the biggest reason not to reopen schools had to do
with "public health" concerns.
Responses
from parents were divided among political affiliation. While
two-thirds of conservative parents agreed with the current
administration that schools should re-open, less than half of liberal
parents concurred. And between the sexes, 31 percent more fathers
than mothers want school campuses open for in-person learning.
More
complete details on survey results are available on
the WalletHub website.
About the Author
Dian Schaffhauser is a former senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal, Campus Technology and Spaces4Learning.