Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation did a survey in August.
盖洛普和沃尔顿家族基金会在8月做了一项调查。
The survey showed that only 32% of American adults are happy. They are happy with the quality of K-12 education in the country. This is a big drop from two years ago.
调查显示,只有32%的美国成年人满意全国的K-12教育质量。
This number is 11 points lower than two years ago.
这个数字比两年前下降了11个百分点。
This is the lowest level in 27 years.
这是27年来的最低水平。
At the same time, the number of unhappy people went up to 67%. This is a new high in history.
同时,不满意的人数升到67%,这是历史新高。
Democrats are the main reason for the drop in satisfaction.
民主党人是满意度下降的主要原因。
Since Trump's second term began in 2025, their satisfaction fell by about 19 points.
自2025年特朗普第二任期开始以来,他们的满意度下降了约19个百分点。
Independents fell by about 10 points.
独立人士下降了约10个百分点。
Republicans fell by about 6 points.
共和党人下降了约6个百分点。
Jack Schneider is the head of the education policy center at UMass Amherst.
杰克·施奈德是马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校教育政策中心的主任。
He said the Trump government called schools a political battlefield. This made the public lose trust.
他说,特朗普政府把学校说成是政治战场,这让公众失去了信心。
He also said people feel the public education system is about to fall apart.
他还说,人们觉得公共教育体系快要解体了。
Politics is not the only reason.
政治不是唯一的原因。
Gallup's survey shows that people's trust in schools has been falling. The pandemic closed schools.
盖洛普的调查显示,自从疫情让学校关闭以来,公众对学校的信心一直在下降。
News reports say test scores across the country have dropped, especially in reading.
新闻报道说,全国的考试成绩下降了,尤其是阅读成绩。
These reports make people feel that schools are hard to recover.
这些报道让人觉得学校很难恢复。
Sarah Reckhow is a professor at Michigan State University.
莎拉·雷克霍是密歇根州立大学的教授。
She says that many talks about technology and AI may also affect people's views.
她说,关于技术和人工智能的很多讨论也可能影响人们的看法。
Parents have different views about their own children's education.
家长对自己孩子的教育有不同的看法。
About two-thirds of parents with school-age children say they are happy.
大约三分之二有学龄儿童的家长表示满意。
This number is low in the trend. But it is still two times the happiness of all adults.
这个数字虽然处于该趋势的低点,但仍然是全体成年人满意度的两倍。
Another survey shows that only about two in ten people think schools do a "good" or "excellent" job. They think schools are not good at teaching critical thinking or preparing for work.
另一项调查显示,只有大约十分之二的人认为学校在教批判性思维或为工作做准备方面做得“好”或“优秀”。
Zach Hrynowski is a senior education researcher at Gallup.
扎克·海诺夫斯基是盖洛普的高级教育研究员。
He says these findings show that people have negative feelings. These feelings are about all institutions in the country.
他说,这些发现反映出人们对全国所有机构都有负面情绪。