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High School Principal Survey
308 principals
41 questions
Questions (1-10)(11-19)(20-28)(29-41)
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29. Are the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment something you personally think about or are they something you take for granted? |
Finally, please answer the following questions for classification purposes only... 35. What is the highest level of education that you have attained? |
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| 56% | Personally think about | 0% | High School diploma | ||||
| 43 | Take for granted | 6 | Bachelors | ||||
| 1 | Don’t know | 68 | Masters | ||||
| 13 | ABD (all but dissertation) | ||||||
| 30. What about most people in the United States—do you think the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment are something people specifically think about or are they something they take for granted? | 7 | Doctorate | |||||
| 2 | Post-doctorate | ||||||
| 3 | Other | ||||||
| 0 | Don’t know | ||||||
| 5% | Personally think about | ||||||
| 92 | Take for granted | 36. Have you ever received any formal instruction in the First Amendment? | |||||
| 3 | Don’t know | ||||||
Below are a series of statements about how people might try to exercise their rights under the First Amendment. In each case please indicate whether you think under current law Americans have the legal right or not to do these things: |
67% 32 |
Yes No (GO TO QUESTION 39) |
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31. Under current law, do Americans have the legal right to burn the American flag as a means of political protest? (Please circle Yes or No.) |
37. IF YES, would that have been before high school, during high school, and/or after high school? (Circle all that apply.) (Responses add up to more than 100% due to multiple mentions. Total number of responses = 294) |
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| 69% | Yes | ||||||
| 31 | No | 19% | Before high school | ||||
| 32. Under current law, do the courts have the right to send reporters to jail for refusing to reveal a news source? | 60 | During high school | |||||
| 73 | After high school | ||||||
| 0 | Don’t know | ||||||
| (Please circle Yes or No.) (Correct answer depends on state.) |
Age |
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| 67% | Yes | 12% | 28–38 | ||||
| 33 | No | 33 | 39–49 | ||||
| 33. Under current law, does the government have the right to restrict indecent material on the Internet? (Please circle Yes or No.) | 47 | 50–60 | |||||
| 8 | 61–71 | ||||||
| 0 | 72+ | ||||||
| 39. Are you male or female? | |||||||
| 50% | Yes | 75% | Male | ||||
| 50% | No | 25 | Female | ||||
34. Under current law, does someone have the legal right to shout “fire” in a crowded arena as a prank? (Please circle Yes or No.) |
40. Are you Spanish/Hispanic/Latino? | ||||||
| 2% | Yes | 3% | Yes | ||||
| 98 | No | 97 | No | ||||
| 41. What is your race? | |||||||
| 92% | White/Caucasian | ||||||
| 7 | Black/African-American | ||||||
| 0 | American Indian/Alaska native | ||||||
| 0 | Asian | ||||||
| 1 | Some other race | ||||||
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