The poll asked 598 adult North Carolinians this question: "Do you think children who have been diagnosed as having AIDS should be allowed to attend school with other children?"
Margin of error in the Carolina Poll is 4 percentage points. This means that in 19 of 20 samples of this type, the results would vary by no more than 4 percent from what would have been obtained if every telephone in the state had been dialed.
Telephone numbers dialed were chosen by a random computer process by KPC Research, which is the market research arm of Knight Publishing Co., in Charlotte.
Sponsors of the poll were the School of Journalism and the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Results: 64 percent said AIDS children should be allowed to attend school; 23 percent said they
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should not; 13 percent said they had no opinion.
Of the high school dropouts who responded to the survey, 54 percent said they would allow AIDS children to attend school with healthy children; 68 percent of those with a college education said they would allow it.
Quotations from Kathy Kerr, a health educator with the AIDS Control Program of the North Carolina Division of Health Services: "It's encouraging to have more than half say they would (let AIDS children attend classes with other children). I think a few years ago in this epidemic there was a lot more AIDS hysteria and probably a lot more people said they wouldn't let AIDS children attend school with other children.
"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."
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