Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Daryl Jackson | Pelham , NY
Stop white washing history!!
Benita Gordon | Miami, FL
Odalis Gonzalez | Seattle, WA
As a teacher, it is my duty to educate my learners about the truth to provide them with the tools they need to change the world for the better.
Andrea Gambino | Los Angeles, CA
Destiny Andrews | Vallejo, CA
I refuse to lie to my students and teach them an abbreviated version of history that erases the struggle and resistance and every day people.
Karen Levy , NM
Students and everyone need to learn the truth about history.
Anita Kumar | Wayne, NJ
Ellie DesPrez | St. Louis, MO
Teaching our nation’s history and stories that help illustrate it comprehensively is a vital part of working toward a true democracy that enfranchises all citizens.
Judith Conte | Flagler Beach, FL
PUBLIC education is my passion and, if done honestly, the future of our country.
Ellen Stewart | Jacksonville, FL
Not teaching racial inequality in American History curricula is fundamentally wrong. Personal bias has no place in teaching any subject, especially history. It's like an English teacher teaching the alphabet from A to L and choose to leave out M to Z. Who would ever do that? Answer: NO ONE!
Rebecca Coulter | Chicago, IL
Students deserve to learn the truth about this country. If we are to change the injustices of today, we need inspiration from the change makers of yesterday.
Chrysalis Wright | Apopka, FL
We cannot learn from our mistakes if we refuse to acknowledge their existence.
Rebecca Rogers | San Francisco, CA
Steph Beener | Pottstown, PA
ALL of Our history deserves to be heard!
Levis Becker | Kitchener , CA
In order to learn from our past we need to know the truth of our past.
Carrie Lang
students need to learn the TRUTH about our history
Julia Endrizzi | Wilmington, DE
The truth matters.
Claude Bisson | La Fayette, NY
The Truth counts!
Miriam Oppenheimer | philadelphia, PA
Of course I will teach the truth. What else is there?
Tracy Garrison-Feinberg | Brooklyn
the truth matters and it is our job as educators to provide our students with the tools they need to think critically as they examine our past and our present.
Heather Maes | Salem, MA
It is our job as educators to tell the truth.
Megan Graziose | Seattle, WA
As teachers, we are called to teach the truth and hiding history from our students means lying about our identity as Americans. Yes, our history is not pretty and we have had to take steps to become what we are today, but we, as teachers, are also life long learners who are teaching our students to become life long learners as well. Our students should not be lied to.
Shannon Haulotte | Austin, TX
The truth must prevail. It is our responsibility to share both the good and bad, triumph and heartache of our shared history.
Jill Godmilow | New York, NY
... it's my duty, and my will, to educate students to the fullest to inspire critical thinking about the history of this country, so they can do their future work with creativity and a full political consciousness.
David Richardson | Traverse City, MI
I will always teach students to think critically, which means they must examine all points of view. I will never lie to my students.
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.