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Section 5

Stricter Requirements
Question 1: In your opinion, should promotion from grade to grade in the public schools be made more strict than it is now or less strict? (Asked in: 1986.)
[Code: 121-CurSX-1]

Question 2: In your opinion, should the requirements for graduation from the public high schools be made more strict than they are now or less strict? (Asked in: 1986.)
[Code: 122-CurSX-2]

Question 3: Would you favor stricter requirements for high school graduation even if it meant that significantly fewer students would graduate than is now the case? (Asked in: 1986, 1995.)
[Code: 124-CurSX-3]

Question 4: This card lists several ways to deal with those students who do not meet the requirements for public high school graduation. Which one of these plans would your prefer? Have the high schools set up a remedial program for helping students who initially failed to meet the requirements for high school graduation to satisfy these requirements. This program would be supported by taxes. Have the high schools set up a remedial program for helping students who initially failed to meet the requirements for high school graduation to satisfy these requirements. Students would be charged tuition to enter this program. Have the high schools award more than one kind of diploma so that if a student cannot meet the requirements for a standard diploma he or she would still be awarded a lesser diploma. Don't know (Asked in: 1986.)
[Code: 123-CurSX-4]

Subjects -- Most Useful
Question 5: What subjects that you studied or experience that you gained in high school have you found to be most useful in later life? (Asked in: 1978.)
[Code: 126-CurSX-5]

Question 6: And now thinking only of the subjects that were offered in your high school, are there any subjects you wish you had studied and didn't that would be of special help to you now? (Asked in: 1978.)
[Code: 125-CurSX-6]

Training for Citizenship
Question 7: Young people who reach the age of 18 now have the right to vote. The question arises as to whether high school courses give students enough information about the Constitution, about government and the political process, to enable them to vote intelligently. What is your impression -- how good a job do the schools perform in this respect: good, fair, or poor? (Asked in: 1974.)
[Code: 127-CurTX-7]

Values
Question 8: I am going to read off a list of different values that might be taught in the public schools. For each one, please tell me whether you think it should be taught, or should not be taught, to all students in the public schools of your community? [Honesty, Democracy, Acceptance of people of different races and ethnic backgrounds, Caring for friends and family members, Moral courage, Patriotism/love of country, The Golden Rule, Acceptance of people who hold different religious beliefs, Acceptance of people who hold unpopular or controversial political or social views, Sexual abstinence outside of marriage, Acceptance of people with different sexual orientations: that is homosexuals or bisexuals, Acceptance of the right of a woman to choose abortion.] (Asked in: 1993, 1999.)
[Code: 128-CurVX-8]

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Stricter Requirements
Question 1: In your opinion, should promotion from grade to grade in the public schools be made more strict than it is now or less strict? (Asked in: 1986.)
[Code: 121-CurSX-1]

Question 2: In your opinion, should the requirements for graduation from the public high schools be made more strict than they are now or less strict? (Asked in: 1986.)
[Code: 122-CurSX-2]

Question 3: Would you favor stricter requirements for high school graduation even if it meant that significantly fewer students would graduate than is now the case? (Asked in: 1986, 1995.)
[Code: 124-CurSX-3]

Question 4: This card lists several ways to deal with those students who do not meet the requirements for public high school graduation. Which one of these plans would your prefer? Have the high schools set up a remedial program for helping students who initially failed to meet the requirements for high school graduation to satisfy these requirements. This program would be supported by taxes. Have the high schools set up a remedial program for helping students who initially failed to meet the requirements for high school graduation to satisfy these requirements. Students would be charged tuition to enter this program. Have the high schools award more than one kind of diploma so that if a student cannot meet the requirements for a standard diploma he or she would still be awarded a lesser diploma. Don't know (Asked in: 1986.)
[Code: 123-CurSX-4]

Subjects -- Most Useful
Question 5: What subjects that you studied or experience that you gained in high school have you found to be most useful in later life? (Asked in: 1978.)
[Code: 126-CurSX-5]

Question 6: And now thinking only of the subjects that were offered in your high school, are there any subjects you wish you had studied and didn't that would be of special help to you now? 1. Typing and other secretarial skills 2. Mathematics 3. Shop 4. Foreign languages 5. Science 6. English 7. History 8. Civics 9. Home economics 10. Music (Asked in: 1978.)
[Code: 125-CurSX-6]

Training for Citizenship
Question 7: Young people who reach the age of 18 now have the right to vote. The question arises as to whether high school courses give students enough information about the Constitution, about government and the political process, to enable them to vote intelligently. What is your impression -- how good a job do the schools perform in this respect: good, fair, or poor? (Asked in: 1974.)
[Code: 127-CurTX-7]

Values
Question 8: I am going to read off a list of different values that might be taught in the public schools. For each one, please tell me whether you think it should be taught, or should not be taught, to all students in the public schools of your community? [Honesty, Democracy, Acceptance of people of different races and ethnic backgrounds, Caring for friends and family members, Moral courage, Patriotism/love of country, The Golden Rule, Acceptance of people who hold different religious beliefs, Acceptance of people who hold unpopular or controversial political or social views, Sexual abstinence outside of marriage, Acceptance of people with different sexual orientations: that is homosexuals or bisexuals, Acceptance of the right of a woman to choose abortion.] (Asked in: 1993, 1999.)
[Code: 128-CurVX-8]

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