Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Sheila May-Stein
My students deserve it.
Daniel Dawer | Austin, TX
I refuse to lie to young people.
Terry Weber | New York, NY
History has many sides and we should look at them
Alyssa Peterschmidt | Gary, IN
Truth matters and our future generations deserve to know the truth.
Marcie Brewer | Portland, OR
We must all work actively to dismantle white supremacy in our schools, our government, and our country.
John Browning | Spokane, WA
Jermain Corbin | West Roxbury, MA
Facts are important. I will not lie about those facts to protect the fragility of others.
Sandra Herrington | Trenton, NJ
Teaching my students anything but the truth would be a disservice to them and their futures.
Richard Woodruff | Denver, CO
Truth matters.
Carol LaLiberte | Enfield, CT
Students deserve to learn the truth.
TOBY DASPIT | Lafayette, LA
THE TRUTH ABOUT HISTORY SHOULD NOT BE WITHHELD!
Waman French | Decatur, GA
Victoria Ramirez-Santiago | La Mirada, CA
Barbara Williams | Philadelphia, PA
We must not revert to the days when only the "whitewashed version" of our country's history is taught . ( when I went to school).The truth will set us free!
Aine Cook | Boston, IE
Cameron White | Friendswood, TX
Jarre Hamilton | Berkeley, CA
Chloe Erskine | Oakland, CA
Bob McCord | Houston, TX
Good versus evil is what it has become.
Rick Bonacorsi | New York, NY
It’s time to be honest for once.
Morgan Hall | Washington, DC
my students and my kids aren't too young - they can be antiracists and we need them to be!
Trudy Mower | Seattle, WA
in order to move forward in our country/world, we need to learn what the true issues are, plain and simple.
Dana Sullivan
our students need to learn to be citizens who make informed decisions for the present and future, while reflecting with true information from multiple perspectives from past history.
Alexandra Zinnes | Decatur, GA
Amber Leeson-Curtis | Tucson, AZ
Unless we teach the truth we can never overcome the challenges our country is facing. Lying to our students undermines our credibility and places us in a position that requires us to be unethical.
Selected Pledges
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As an educator who is serious about teaching the truth I will not be bullied into silence. I will do my part in the fight for equity and equality by making sure my students are most equipped to fight this ugliness in the real world.
Yes, the truth of American history needs to be taught, but also its impact on the rest of the world, such as its role in WWII. I just finished teaching a college-level course on the Holocaust, and could not believe how little the students knew about the rest of the world’s participation in the war! They seemed to believe that WWII was ended by the US alone!
“When you begin to do things that raise the achievement of the poorest and disenfranchised students, you may not always get applause. You need to be ready for that.” Dr. Asa Hilliard
“Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.”
Dr. Derrick Bell
Our young people deserve the truth and it is our kuleana (responsibility) to give space and opportunity for the truth and the difficult conversations.
If we don’t teach it all, we teach nothing…
Social justice is a major theme of my Humanities 7 course, and my school uses Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s HILL framework (development of identity, skills, knowledge, Criticality) to frame our entire curriculum. Student agency through research work and essay writing, and action-oriented civic engagement work, define what we “cover” in my course.