Last year, the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute reported that nearly 80% of civics teachers had self-censored or avoided certain topics in class because they feared pushback or controversy. This year, we talked to the students.
Fifty-eight percent of the recent high school graduates we surveyed said they had held back from saying what they really thought about a political or civic topic because they were concerned about how others might react. Most were not describing hostile classrooms: 73% said they were generally comfortable sharing their honest views. Yet 51% of even those comfortable… Read More in Real Clear Politics