Questionnaire for School Board
Candidate Endorsement Questionnaire for School Board
Dear Candidate,
Congratulations on your decision to run for office.
For over 20 years, we have conducted election forums where we make
specific candidate recommendations in churches and have a voter
guide.
Last election cycle we had about 1 million voters following our
endorsements.
Besides conducting live Election Forums and webinars giving
endorsements, we will be posting our endorsements of candidates on
our four websites, including Tennessee Voter Guide
(Tennvoterguide.com), doing digital ads, emailing and publicizing our
recommendations to voters in your district.
In addition, our recommendations are also broadcast on local media.
In your office we will either say:
- Endorsed… Giving you a 3-to-5-star rating
- Not endorsed… Giving you a 1–2-star rating
- Refused to disclose position
I look forward to hearing from you and hopefully giving you our
endorsement.
- What is your name and what office are you running for?
- What are the three (3) most pressing issues facing the school district? Please prioritize them. What if anything do you plan to do about them if you are elected to the position of governing board member? What specific promises will you make to the voters in order to be elected?
(1)(2)
(3)
- Do you favor or oppose the expansion of charter schools within
the school district? Why or why not? - Do you believe there is a place for celebrations of religious
holidays and singing religious music in holiday programs? What
would you support and allow and what should be excluded from
the school? - When teaching science, should alternatives to evolution (such
as Intelligent Design) be taught in public schools? Should
individual instructors be given leeway to teach both points of
view? Or should only the accepted theories of evolution be
taught without mentioning the scientific objections to the
theory? - What national politician do you admire the most and why?
- What does Critical Race Theory (CRT) mean to you and what
are your thoughts about the teaching of Critical Race Theory in
public school? - What are your thoughts about transgender boys playing in girls’
sports and dressing in girls’ locker rooms? - Do you support or oppose schools notifying parents of their
student’s changing pronouns or identifying as a different
gender? - Should teachers be teaching values to students, and
should they be telling students what to believe and what to
think or should they merely be teaching the subject matter? - Who should have final control over the content of a child’s
education? - How should schoolbook choices be made?
- Do you believe the local school district should allow parents
to review curriculum and books in the school library? - What type of public input should parents and taxpayers
have? - Do you believe in absolute truth? Why or why not? If you
believe in absolute truth, what is the source of absolute truth?
If you do not believe in absolute truth, how do you determine
what is true?
