Today's topic: controversial issues in American education. Our questions concern two current educational issues: sex education and the bussing of school children to alleviate racial discrimination. We discovered that opinions on these issues were based on a fundamental and continuing conflict in American society the conflict between individual rights and generally agreed upon social values. For example, while all of our respondents agreed that ignorance about sex could be harmful to young people, there was disagreement about how children should be instructed and the rights of parents to determine what their children learn.