The average teacher is not a blue-haired harridan nor a red-hat-fearing ranter, according an EdWeek survey conducted before the election.
Despite the national teachers' unions' endorsements of Kamala Harris, only 50 percent of educators said they'd vote for the Harris-Walz ticket, reports Libby Stanford. Thirty-nine percent said they'd support the Trump-Vance ticket, and 11 percent a third-party candidate.
To my surprise, the survey found younger educators -- district and school leaders and teachers -- were more likely to back Trump than their older colleagues. "Forty-nine percent of respondents who labeled themselves as 'millennial or younger' said they would vote for Trump," while 35 percent planned to vote for Harris and 16 percent for a third party, writes Stanford.
Perhaps those third-party voters saw Harris-Walz as insufficiently progressive and planned a vote for Jill Stein. (She was in my older sister's class in high school, and her brother was in my class. Go HPHS!) Still, 49 percent of those in their 20s and 30s were Trump voters!? I guess there aren't that many people going into teaching to turn their students into gender-bended revolutionaries.
Higher ed tilts strongly to the left, according to a pre-election Inside Higher Ed survey: 78 percent of professors backed Harris-Walz, only 8 percent planned to vote for Trump-Vance. And I'd bet the 8 percent are very quiet.
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