A school bus arrives at Ashlawn Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, on March 4, 2021. Ashlawn reopens on Thursday. | Chen Mengtong/China News Service via Getty Images

Vaccination rates are on the rise, and parents are eager to send their kids back to the classroom.

In-person schooling has become one of the biggest flashpoints in the debate around how to contain Covid-19 and live amid a pandemic. A new poll from Gallup indicates that the vast majority of parents are eager to get their kids back into in-person education.

Conducted February 14 to 21, the poll surveyed 860 adults with kids ranging from kindergarten age to 12th grade. Seventy-nine percent said they support “providing in-person schooling” in their communities, with Republicans at 94 percent, independents at 80 percent, and Democrats at 62 percent.

Those partisan differences reflect one