Survey finds L.A. County parents believe children are seriously hurt by school closures
A University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) survey shows that Los Angeles County residents rate education as one of several worst factors affecting their quality of life, one of the largest declines in recent years among parents of public school children.
More than three-quarters of parents of children ages five to 18 in the county believe that their children have been away from school and participating in distance learning for a year because of the new crown epidemic, which has taken a serious toll on them both academically and socially.
Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles Initiative at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, said. “It’s a very big statistic.” The organization partnered with FM3 Research, a public opinion survey firm, to release the annual Quality of Life Index, “It’s not counterintuitive, the numbers are intuitive, but the number surprised most of us, and across all demographic areas.”
The Quality of Life Index is a composite score on a scale of 10 to 100 that reflects how satisfied people are with nine categories and how much they value each one. The overall score remained relatively stable this year at 58. This means that residents rate their overall quality of life somewhat more positively than negatively, but there is significant variation between categories.
In addition to education, the survey shows that, as in previous years, young people are significantly dissatisfied with the cost of living in Los Angeles, particularly the cost of housing.
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