Teacher\u27s Attitudes and Teacher\u27s and Student\u27s Knowledge of Alcohol and Alcoholism in Selected Utah High Schools

A comparison of teacher\u27s attitudes and teacher\u27s and student\u27s knowledge of alcohol and alcoholism were studied in nine selected high schools in Utah. It was found that some teachers knew important positive facts about alcohol and alcoholism, but when personal obligations were written into attitude questions, their responses changed. Some health and driver education teachers were poorly informed on the subject of alcohol and alcoholism. Some important facts known by teachers were either being deleted from instruction on alcohol or not being communicated very well. In some schools it appears that students are learning about alcohol and alcoholism from other sources than their health classes-even though they ranked their health classes as their best source of information about alcohol