TKe Daily Tar HeelMonday, August 31, 19925
Poll shows Americans more receptive to condom distribution
By Tara Duncan
Staff Writer
The traditional three R's of educa
tion: reading, writing and arithmetic,
might be changing - to relationships,
reality and responsibility.
, A Gallup Organization poll released
.Thursday shows that a majority of
Americans favor condom distribution
.in public schools.
Response to the poll, commissioned
.annually by Phi Delta Kappa, a frater
nity of educators, showed that 68 per-
:cent of respondents favored having
- condoms available for students in pub
lic schools.
"The response really didn't surprise
- me," said Bruce Smith, managing edi
tor of Phi Delta Kappa, based in
Bloomington, Ind. "The question was
carefully worded to include that the
condom distribution could be with pa
rental consent."
Forty three percent of those surveyed
favored condom distribution with no
parental consent involved, Smith said.
The other 25 percent favoring distribu
tion said schools should require paren
tal permission. Only 25 percent of sur
vey participants said schools should not
distribute condoms at all, Smith said.
"The results of this poll reflect the
fact that AIDS (Acquired Immune De
ficiency Syndrome) is permanent,"
Smith said. "Everyone I know is ac
quainted with someone infected with
the AIDS virus. Once it hits home,
everyone is willing to try anything."
American views on the distribution
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of condoms have changed in the past 10
years, said Phyllis Bennett, a Raleigh
member of Phi Delta Kappa.
"I think there is an adult population
with different values and views on life
and relationships," Bennett said
In the past, condom distribution was
primarily associated with teenage preg-
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'Teenage pregnancy is a serious prob
lem, but the girls are still alive," he said.
"AIDS kills, and it is the only major
change that has been happening over
the past 10 years."
Growing numbers of schools in
cluding those in Los Angeles, New York
City, Chicago and Portland, Ore. are
starting condom-distribution programs,
Smith said.
In North Carolina, no public middle
or high schools participate in condom
distribution, said Larry McDonald of
Healthful Living, a division of the N.C.
Department of Public Instruction.
"I'm sure this poll will have quite a
reaction both ways," he said, "but it is
primarily a decision that will have to be
dealt with on the local school board
level."
Gallup interviewed about 1,300
adults last spring. The margin of error is
about three percentage points.
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