An attitudinal survey conducted in the Muncie metropolitan area : the desirability or offensiveness of teaching controversial issues in the high school

The problems in existence among teachers, parents, and administrators, and the planes and manifestations of those problems have been too often remote and over-generalized by both laymen and educators; to even begin to hint at communication, identity and degree must first be discovered. It was for this reason the writer chose to complete an attitudinal survey in the Muncie area on the offensiveness or desirability of teaching controversial issues in the high schools so that contentions might be identified and the degree of opinion, both pro and con, discovered in the community at large. The problem chosen was not concerned with how and to what degree (positively or negatively) controversial issues should be dealt with, but simply: should they he considered in the classroom.