Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Diane Elliott
Robert Tapp | New York, NY
Kasey Hilton | Fenton, MI
Chloe DuBois | North Port, FL
Kari Warner | Tucson, AZ
Danielle Schmidt | Manitou Springs, CO
Jill Loesch | Minneapolis, MN
Kristie Lindsay | Mount Vernon, WA
Erin Green | Austin, TX
Benjamin Imbus | Albuquerque, NM
Teachers should not be nationalist propaganda outlets. Instead, we should teach against white-supremacy.
Amy Weinberger | Sarasota, FL
For the record, CRT is a law school theory and we teachers have never taught it. This is just noise from white legislators and white people who feel threatened somehow about the truth to historical records.
Susan Cohen | Sarasota, FL
Students need to be given all the facts on an age appropriate basis. Without a full explanation, students will be unable to make wise decisions, either now or in the future.Susan Cohen, retired teacher
Wm Tom Chadwell | La Follette, TN
We have state approved texts supplemented with teacher curated resources. I will always teach the truth to the best of my ability as the opportunity arises through content or student inquiry.
Harry Phataz | Holts Summit, MO
Karen Engels | Cambridge, MA
Marcelle Crago | Sarasota, FL
Agatha Trunchbull | Alexandria, VA
Joshua Diamant | Oakland, CA
C P | Mobile, AL
Caleb Kint | Hanover, PA
Adrienne Walls | Philadelphia, PA
Teach Truth indeed!!! We must fully atone for allowing one human to LEGALLY OWN another...or we will NEVER heal!!!
Felipe de Araujo | Greenville, NC
I am against we not teaching the truth about the US history to our children. Omitting facts about racism, sexism and any sort of discrimination makes us vulnerable to make the same mistakes again.
Nancy Drew | Las Vegas, NV
Breanna Malmos | Peoria, AZ
JODI KREIDLER | Tacoma, WA
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.