Ashley Fitzgerald

Alex Burke
4th Period
Civics Honors
Survey for Teenagers

After surveying fifty teenagers, we have found that there are many different

opinions at Rockingham County High School. Our topics included abortion, the war in

Iraq, gun control, immigration, the President, gay marriage, death penalty, religion,

Affirmative Action, and the welfare system. It was very interesting to see the outcome of

these issues.

Students made their opinions very clear throughout this survey. These topics are

very controversial, which is exactly why we chose them. Thirty-six out of fifty teenagers

voted to ban abortion. Others, however, were very evenly matched such as the war in Iraq

which consisted of twenty-four people in favor of it and twenty-six people opposing it.

Many students believe that guns should not be prohibited because there were thirty-eight

teens out of fifty voting for guns to be allowed. Forty-four teenagers believed

immigration laws should be stricter. The support of President George W. Bush was fairly

evenly matched with only thirty people supporting him and twenty people not supporting

him. Gay marriage and the death penalty were extremely unbalanced. Gay marriage had

only ten supporters and the death penalty had five opposers. The Pledge of Allegiance

has the saying “Under God” in it and only two people don’t want the saying in the

pledge. Twenty-seven of the students supported Affirmative Action. I believe that these

results are like that because many people don’t understand the idea of Affirmative Action.

Last, thirty-nine people agreed with the United States having a welfare system.

Rockingham County High School's students have many different views on these

issues. The majority of these issues were extremely controversial. Many people at RCHS

have conservative views. There are very few people who support gay marriage. There are
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Alex Burke
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many people that support “Under God” being in the Pledge of Allegiance. The United

States of America has many different views, just like our school.