Conservative parents said they’re looking to exit public schools after an anemic performance by right-leaning candidates in school board elections this week.
Conservative parents said they’re looking to exit public schools after an anemic performance by right-leaning candidates in school board elections this week.
It’s been a decade since I graduated high school (and I hate that I’m old enough to say that) but I still remember very clearly that there were more liberal kids with really conservative parents than there were conservative kids with more conservative parents. And then after college, some of those leaning conservative kids became staunch liberals too. Plus, most of us were upper middle class, so we had quite the sample size too.
By and large, kids are more liberal than their parents, no matter how much their parents try to shelter and lead them to an evangelical Christian life.
My original thought was that the reason why kids grow up more liberal is because of their teachings and their upbringing/experiences. It’s really sad that things like science are politicized but it is and it’s generally left leaning. My worry is that if conservative parents home schooled their kids and essentially curated their upbringing to be conservative, it would lead to kids that are conservative and when these kids grow up they will perpetuate the cycle.
I think more will be conservative than before, but probably not most of them. They’d have to somehow cut off contract from anyone liberal