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Slightly more U.S. parents say it’s unlikely they’d send their kids back to school if it reopens this year than say they probably would, a new Rasmussen Reports survey of adults finds.
Nationally, 49% say it’s likely, with 31% saying it’s “not at all likely” and 18% reporting that it’s “not very likely.” Meanwhile, 46% of parents with school-age kids say it’s either “very” (35%) or “somewhat” (11%) likely they’d send their children back to school before year’s end. Five percent say they’re “not sure.”
Younger adult parents are far more likely than are older parents to have their kids return to school. Fully 85% of males under 40 say it’s at least somewhat likely (55% very likely), compared to just 46% of males 40 and older. For women, 74% of those under 40 say it’s likely, with 65% calling it very likely. Only 34% of older females say they’d likely send their kids back to school this year.
Still, parents don’t believe they’ll have to make this decision, as only 13% of the 1,000 U.S. adults Rasmussen polled in the survey, conducted April 20-21, 2020, say it’s likely schools will reopen this year.
