By the Numbers

The School of Journalism and the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill put on a telephone poll mid October.
“Do you think Children who have been diagnosed as having AIDS should be allowed to attend school with other children?” was the question that 598 adult North Carolinians were asked.
With only a four percent margin of error, the results were 64 percent said AIDS children should be allowed to attend school; 23 percent said they should not; 13 percent said they had no opinion.
“More and more people are recognizing that AIDS is not transmitted casually. You certainly don’t get AIDA by sitting next to someone in class,” said Kathy Kerr, a health educator with the AIDS Control Program of the North Carolina Division of Health Services.