"Teachers are known for being liberal." Options

[HakunaMatata]

...when my teacher first said that, I was pretty surprised. But after mulling over it, I saw the truth in it. I have and have had quite a few teachers who are quite liberal-minded and openly opinionated. This may be because I live in the infamously liberal Bay Area, but you never know.

With more thinking, I realized that teachers were much, much more secretive about their political opinions during the younger grades. I remember my fifth grade refused to tell us who he voted for in the Presidential election.

Should teachers openly have a political opinions? Obv, it's not good when a teacher overdoes his or her bias and lets it leak way over into the teaching curriculum, and teachers are most definitely (as is everyone) allowed to have opinions, but to what degree should they reveal that opinion? Are teachers even known for being liberal at all?

[espressive]

*AP Government moment*

That's because people who tend colleges tend to be more liberal, according to my textbook for the following reasons:

1. "One possiblity is that it has nothing to do with the schooling but rather with the individual traits typically possessed by people who go to college and beyond."
2. "A second possibilty is that college and postgraduates schooling expose people to more information about politics from all sources."
3. "The third possiblity is that college somehow teaches liberalism. We know that professors are more liberal than members of other occupations..."

Being a teacher, one is expected to have a degree from a college, so I guess attending graduating from a college impacts teachers' liberal stance.

"The political disposition of professors is in part the result of the kinds of people who become college teachers, but it also the result of the nature of intellectual work. Intellectuals require freedom to explore new or unpopular ideas and thus tend to be strong supporters of civil liberties...are skeptical of common opinions, and thus they are often critical of accepted values and existing institutions."