# Four in ten say schools don't prepare students to consider others' struggles

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> Indexed question in Politics.

## Reading

More than four-in-ten Americans (43%) reject the idea that schools prepare young people to weigh other Americans' struggles as voters, including 23% who strongly disagree, according to an October 2024 Verasight survey.

About three-in-ten (31%) are neutral, while 23% agree schools do prepare students this way; a small share (2%) declined to answer.

## Topline

Our schools prepare young people to think about the challenges faced by other Americans when they become voters?

Four in ten say schools don't prepare students to consider others' struggles.

Net findings combine adjacent response options from the same scale.

- Neutral: 31.4%
- Strongly disagree: 22.8%
- Somewhat disagree: 20.6%
- Somewhat agree: 15.1%
- Strongly agree: 7.6%
- Prefer not to answer: 2.5%

## Methodology

- Mode: Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting
- Population: US adults age 18+
- Field dates: 2024-10-01 → 2024-10-11
- Base (unweighted): 1,000
- Margin of error: +/- 3.4%
- Module: educ_pol
- Sponsor: Verasight
- Weight variable: weight
- Weighting targets: age, race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, region, metropolitan status

## Source

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## Citation

Verasight APSA Omnibus Survey #2024-103, fielded October 1-11, 2024, N=1,000 US adults age 18+, +/- 3.4%.

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