THE EDUCATION REVOLUTION RAGES ON The Golden State recently passed a “Menstrual Equity Act,” which stipulates that at least one boys’ bathroom in every middle and high school have tampon dispensers.
It’s back-to-school time, and the culture chasm is wider than ever.
In January, a Gallup poll found that Americans’ belief in grade-school teachers’ honesty and ethics had dropped to 64%, an all-time low. Then in July, another Gallup poll showed that just 28 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in public schools – the second-lowest this figure has been since Gallup began asking this question in 1973. At the same time, a just published PDK International survey reveals that only 50% of all adults have confidence that teachers can teach civics, and just 38% believe that they can handle “gender/sexuality issues.”