Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Salvatore J. Fallica | New York, NY
I teach a unit called the spectacle of race -- and much of that deals with race formations and popular culture; and I refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history, popular culture and current events.
Lisa Buck-Tomaselli | East Rochester, NY
It is moral right to teach children our nations history. No matter how horrible or great it maybe, the truth is the priority.
Jaimalya Ashford | Webster, NY
Truth is all that should be taught
Chris Cerrone | Springville, NY
Alexis Croisdale | Corvallis, OR
I want children to learn the truth before they graduate high school.
Colleen Soppelsa | Cincinnati, OH
I believe in addressing Root Cause Racism.
Christine Dussault | Chicago, IL
We will never learn from our past if we don't teach the truth.
Hartley Sierputoski | Charleston, SC
As an educator, I refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events.
Monica Lane | Raleigh, NC
Tiffany Wagner , VA
I am currently working directly with educators to help implement educational software into their classrooms for math and science, but I am also a parent who believes all children deserve the truth about our history.
Colleen Kyle | Baltimore, MD
I have been teaching history for 20 years and it is my job to show students how to search for truth. My favorite history professor once advised me to “never believe your own bullshit.” Well, it’s true of nations, too.
Emily Storch | Lexington, KY
I am dedicated to ending lies in our classrooms that perpetuate systemic racism.
Tania Paria | Chestnut Hill, MA
Maria Johnson | Sacramento, CA
As a history teacher, an immigrant, and a bilingual person of color, it is my duty to make sure my students are informed of the truth.
Miroku Nemeth | Fresno, CA
White nationalist and white settler colonial mythology cannot stand unchecked. All human beings have a responsibility to change things, and teachers have even more of a responsibility.
Sachu Constantine | Berkeley, CA
As a former classroom teacher, I know that teaching our kids the truth about history doesn't undermine faith in our society, but it is the only way to restore it.
Melody Schneider | Lynnwood, WA
When I teach the truth my students ask, why hasn’t anyone taught me this before? Everyone should know the truth. I Will never stop teaching the full story, using the laws, the words of the people, data…I will not be one of those people who teach lies
Briana Ransford | Fall River, MA
this should have been staple in our educational system years ago and the truth will unite, liberate, foster acceptance that our country and youth need.
RAchel Koger | Bristol, RI
I believe in teaching the truth of our history to our future generations in order to build a unified societal understanding.
Andre Montañez Berrios | New York, NY
"People will be truly critical if they live in the plenitude of the praxis, that is, if their action encompasses a critical reflection which increasingly organizes their thinking and thus leads them to move from a purely naive knowledge of reality to a higher level, one which enables them to perceive the causes of reality." – Paulo Freire
Theresa Nguyen | Austin, TX
students deserve to know the truth!
Paul Farrand | Chicago, IL
Don Dilks | Fort Pierce, FL
Truth matters. Only students have the right to decide.
Melissa Locascio | Lodi, NJ
We should be teaching the truth, not hiding it.
Deanne D'Aloia | Jackson Heights, NY
the truth matters.
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.