“I feel as an educator it’s our responsibility to educate and to give students the facts and present multiple viewpoints. I feel that the students need to develop their own opinions, it’s not my job to tell students what I think is right. It’s my job to inform, educate and tell facts for the student to create their own standpoint.”

“I don’t think it’s my role to encourage or discourage any political beliefs I want my students to research. I think students need to grow. I don’t think it’s something that is my place either. Really, I think that is something you discuss in the home, but I give the students the tools where they can make an educated decision about things.”

“The social science teacher’s role is to supply students with fact and standards-based learning, educate them in civics, and develop in them the skills they need to independently form well-reasoned opinions, communicate those effectively, and be contributing members of society.”

“I think that teachers should be providers of fact-based information, but that they should not particularly necessarily endorse a specific candidate actively to students, or try to encourage students to do a particular thing.”