Gallup: Confidence if Public Schools, TV News, Banks at All Time Low
Go to the mall at 4pm on a weekday and subject yourself to the product of our public schools... we have all seen this. It is one of those things that everyone knows and few talk about.
I recently finished a new degree and I was shocked at how ignorant and miseducated the public schoolers were. So are many professors.
PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' confidence in public schools is down five percentage points from last year, with 29% expressing "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in them. That establishes a new low in public school confidence from the 33% measured in Gallup's 2007 and 2008 Confidence in Institutions polls. The high was 58% the first time Gallup included public schools, in 1973.
In addition to public schools, this year's Confidence in Institutions survey finds record lows, all by one percentage point, in Americans' confidence in the church or organized religion (44%), banks (21%), and television news (21%).
Gallup has asked Americans to say how much confidence they have in a variety of U.S. institutions since 1973, including annually since 1993.
None of this comes at a surprise, even the low numbers on organized religion as the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal has taken a very heavy toll the Vatican's credibility.