Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Rebecca Baruc | Chicago, IL
Sarah McCall | Richmond, VA
I am a former public school educator who is dismayed with the current moves toward censorship and the away from trust in teachers and their areas of expertise.
Beth Schap | Owings Mills, MD
it is important that the truth be taught to students.
Gabriela Gonzalez | Berkeley, CA
I want my future children to receive a better, more-informed education than I did.
Angie Holmes | Laurel, MD
It's important for children to learn accurate history. To know better we can do better.
Jennifer Carpenter | Glendale, AZ
Honesty and clarity are necessary for change.
Theo Greenblatt | Newport, RI
I believe that the only way to truly heal this country and build a democracy is to teach the truth about our history and our present.
Mary Smith
D. Hadleyee Finke | Oberlin, OH
Only the TRUTH can set us free. Any purported “education” that forbids reading or discussion or even advocacy of any position, is irrevocably poisoned, and smacks of totalitarian indoctrination.
Rose Eberhardt | Winchester, VA
Our governor propelled CRT.
Kevin Fitzgerald | Baltimore, MD
I want my children to know and understand the truth about the country, state, city they live in so they can make informed decisions and opinions on what they do with their lives as well as have empathy for those whose experience is/was different from theirs.
Elise Brennan , PA
Sophia Mangasarian | West Chester , PA
Milan Flynch | New York, NY
The truth matters.
Nora Jones | Myrtle Beach, SC
There is nothing more important than an informed electorate.
Desire Adams | New York, NY
Students need to learn the truth.
Emily Zien , OR
Lili Vaughan | Des Plaines, IL
Ellen Lipo | Chicago, IL
Ginelle Vazquez | New York, NY
Jessica Boisen | ENGLEWOOD, NJ
Truth matters
Karen Pearce | Gettysburg, PA
Students can be informed citizens only if they learn the truth. . Truth matters. Children deserve it.
Stephen Donato | Woodland Park, NJ
I'm not a Karen
Anneliese Paulson | Minneapolis, MN
Andrea McKay , MI
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - Winston ChurchillStudents in America have a right to learn factual history of our nation and of the world. Teachers have a moral imperative to teach the truth.
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.