Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Jacqueline Momoh | Flushing, NY
Genevieve Chavez | New York, NY
Laura Whetstone | Lancaster Twp, PA
Teaching students to examine racism in our history is important and educators won’t be silenced
Kim Mandl | Washington Depot, CT
I pledge to teach the truth of our history through science education, normalizing conversations around race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Through scientific and historic education we can make change to ensure a just world and reduce or end harm done to all our students.
Staver Klitgaard | Brooklyn, NY
Samantha Desch | Philadelphia, PA
Eliza Macdonald | Greensboro, NC
Stacy Eleczko | Raleigh, NC
Sarah Clemency | Philadelphia , PA
Veronica Sousa | Brooklyn , NY
Janice SolekTefft | Underhill, VT
I am a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and have experienced the disparity in detail of Racism.Thank you for promoting this initiative!
Kristi Bumpus | Whitwell, TN
Sarah Crenshaw | Richmond, VA
Sarah Price | Fort Myers, FL
Christina Kharem
Julie Holstad | Seattle, WA
Mary Lynn Pearlman | Peekskill, NY
Johnson Johnson | Boise, ID
CRT…1. Charges an entire demographic with a collective crime.2. Uses that charge as grounds for framing individuals within the demographic as perpetrators of that crime.3. Seeks to strip condemned individuals of rights, dignity, and equal protection based on that charge.
Mark Espinosa | San Angelo, TX
This is evil. My children will inform me and I’ll come to you and beat us ass if you teach my child
John Persico | Frederic, WI
Carola Perisho | Stockton, CA
Polly Kimberly | Philadelphia, PA
I am deeply troubled by the legislative efforts to erase a history that we as a nation have yet to fully grapple with. Until we do fully acknowledge our racist history and all of the systems of oppression still at work, we can never live up to our democratic ideals.
Bridget Ziegler | Sarasota, FL
Jessica Mc | Fargo, ND
Anti-White Propaganda | Wimbledon, ND
I love teaching White children to hate themselves. I especially love supporting Jewish power structures.
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.