Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Mandy Simmons | Denver, CO
Culturally responsive learning is crucial to training the next generation of psychologists
Kate Pothier | Edmonds, WA
Alicia Abney | Murfreesboro, TN
I have spent my entire professional career in public education and have earned four degrees related to public education (3 advanced - M.A., Ed.S., and Ed.D.). Before any lawmakers begin to draft policy related to public education, they actually need to take the time to LISTEN to public educators on the front lines to learn what is actually going on in public schools. They should take time to visit public schools to observe the great work teachers are doing rather than listening to one-sided [often extremist] propaganda full of fear tactics.
Kira Feinstein | New York, NY
Education is important. Students deserve to know the truth. Knowing truth helps make a better future.
Alexandra Cline | San Francisco, CA
Marilyn Reed | Philadelphia, PA
The truth, the whole truth, is important for our country's future.
Margaret Levasseur
Education is important. We need to remember our history to prevent awful things from happening again.
Linda Chatters , MI
Denielle Rose | La Cienega, NM
Mara Santilli | Trumbull, CT
Students need the tools to better understand their history and their world so they grow up and can do something to make a change.
Alex Cary | Los Angeles, CA
Critical race theory is a must in education, media, legislation and community.
Henna Lopez Rahimi | Mill Valley, CA
Jacob Rodgers | Madison, WI
Kimberly Markin | Sullivans Island, SC
I believe that in order for there to be NEEDED change in our system we need honesty and awareness. Information is positive power for change.
Eric Gottschalk | Seattle, WA
Abby Mansell
We can be proud of our country and still understand its ugly past, while striving for a better present and future. How can we know where we’re going if we don’t understand where we have been?
Karen Larson | Richmond, CA
our students deserve to learn the truth about our country’s history, so they can think critically about it and use their intelligence to form their own opinions.
Elizabeth Prenoveau | Baltimore, MD
It is important that all students learn the truth about race in our country.
Jennifer Kreiter , MA
As an education and parent the truth is the only subject to be taught
David Shutkin | Beachwood, OH
William Noling | Brooklyn, NY
Erika Fontana | New York, NY
When I grew up and learned what truly happened in this country, I felt betrayed by my education. Forced ignorance didn’t help me become the person I wanted to become. It was learning the hard truths that I started to take steps toward betterment. We owe it to our marginalized brothers and sisters to face the hard truths and do better with each generation.
Kari Jensen Thomas | Woodbury, MN
Our children deserve to learn and understand the truth about our nation’s history in order for history to not repeat itself.
Amanda Harris | Santa Monica, CA
the truth, in all its ugliness, needs to be told and we need to be able to learn from the mistakes of our ancestors and push toward a better, inclusive, equal, and free tomorrow.
Susan Flowers | Kirkwood, MO
Honesty and transparency about our racist, colonialist, sexist, homophobic, and gender expansive-phobic history is critical to dismantling systems of oppression and making our society a more perfect union.
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.