More students are supportive of the First Amendment than in past surveys with the percentage of students who believe the First Amendment goes too far in protecting rights declining from 45 percent in 2006 to 25 percent in 2011, according to a survey for the Knight Foundation by Dr. Kenneth Dautrich of The Pert Group.
Students also showed increased support for free speech and press rights with greater numbers approving of “people should be allowed to express unpopular opinions” and “newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of a story.” -db
From the Knight Foundation’s 2011 Survey of High School Students and Teachers, “Future of the First Amendment.”