Monday, October 29, 2007

In-Class Exercise: By the Numbers

The School of Journalism and the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsored a poll asking North Carolinians whether they believe children with AIDS should be permitted to attend school with healthy children.

Residents were randomly polled and 64 percent said AIDS children should be allowed to attend school, 23 percent said they should not, and 13 percent said they had no opinion.

Of those who responded, 54 percent of high school dropouts said AIDS students should be allowed to attend, while 68 percent of college graduates agreed.

Kathy Kerr, a health educator with the AIDS Control Program of the North Carolina Division of Health Services, was optimistic about the results. “More and more people are recognizing that AIDS is not transmitted casually. You certainly don’t get AIDS by sitting next to someone in class,” Kerr said.

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