Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Janet Johnson | Bristol, RI
Erin Hester | Minneapolis, MN
KRISTEN CLARK | Portland, OR
Erin Fuson | Birmingham, AL
Rachel Cafferty | Minneapolis, MN
Katherine Pitts | Albany, OR
Parents need to support educators in this process. Educators spend their trying to teach a number of different things to children with different learning styles, attention abilities, levels of knowledge and understanding. Expecting them to teach the truth on their own is ridiculous. Children watch their parents to learn and listen to their peers to learn. Do as you want your children to do and they can help teach their friends as well. This isn't just an educator's job; it's all of ours.
Barbara Frye | Irvine, CA
Kaela King | Seal Beach, CA
emma graham | Spruce Creek, PA
Julia Barrett | Philadelphia , PA
Isabella Hashimoto | Seattle, WA
Deb Odell | Mulino, OR
We teach truth and allow truth to come through the students we teach in our classrooms- they speak truth - their stories illustrate what is in texts and what is left out. Until we reckon with the past . we do not have a future.
Leigh Netcoh | Cambridge, MA
Carrie Thompson , OH
Don’t lie to our children. Let them learn at an early age about equality
Lauren Dachille | Charlotte, NC
Courtney Antone | Minneapolis, MN
We see this preposterous attack on our educational efforts for what it is - a forceful attempt to erase our voices, tamper our efforts towards justice, and silence the voices of those that have resisted racist, bigoted, oppressive systems and efforts (such as this very one!) throughout the history of this land. Our search for justice, liberation, and new futures is so powerful that these lawmakers and their followers are intimidated enough to try and push us into the ground. But as the poet Dinos Christianopolous penned, and as Mexican activists cried out in the 90s, and as we remember today... we are seeds... If they keep pushing us, we will use the soil to nurture these truths so that they continue to grow.
Sherry Neal | Atlanta, GA
Jenny Mealey | Minneapolis, MN
Mary Eisinger | Saint Paul, MN
Kristin Justice | Silver Spring, MD
Evelyn Solis | Stanton, CA
Nicole Seegers | Bellingham, WA
Michelle Anderson | Minneapolis, MN
Janet Higbee-Robinson | Bellingham, WA
Josan Perales | Estes Park, CO
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.