A slight majority - 44 percent - said they are opposed to either topic being addressed in their child’s classroom. More than 40 percent of American parents in a Morning Consult poll published Monday said they support teaching or discussing sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through high school. But a growing number of adults - particularly Republicans - also say they take little to no issue with things like a child being raised by a same-sex couple and wouldn’t mind being represented by an LGBTQ+ person in Congress, new research shows. Most Americans overall don’t believe that teachers have much of an influence on students’ sexual orientation or gender identity, but Republicans are mostly split on the matter.Īmerican parents are squarely divided over whether lessons related to sexual orientation or gender identity should be taught in the nation’s K-12 classrooms.
