Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Stephen Kennedy | Newtown, CT
I refuse to raise my children in the same ignorance as I was. Reality is complex, and until we start to raise all of our children to analyze and accept that reality, we will continue to be blind to the systems of oppression that hold so many of us back. Proud to raise a generation with the potential to lift all voices.
Caitlin Miller
Andy Paparella | Arlington, VA
I will continue to teach facts that show the complex truth about America’s past and present so that students are responsibly informed to develop a better future.
Amanda Campbell | Kansas City, MO
Failure to teach all of our students an accurate history dooms us to continue the mistakes of the past, rather than to build and grow.
Eric Branholm | Chicago, IL
It is our duty as educators to stand up to the forces attempting to repress learning. It is our duty to teach the truth.
Samuel Kingsbury | Washington, DC
I do not believe any teacher should be forced to lie in the classroom because all students deserve the truth.
Janet Gray-McKennis | Chicago, IL
There can be no healing in this country without a recognition and understanding of the truth.
Phil Vander Kamp | Vestavia Hills, AL
I will not be censored or gagged in suppressing the truth about american history.
Phil Burdick | Sitka, AK
I believe that education is an agent for change and we CANNOT shrink from truth.
Andrew Brake | Chicago, IL
Sara Behrens | El Paso, TX
Albert Delgado | Chicago, IL
The media, governments, corporations, institutions have manipulated history to maintain the status go. Enough!
Rebecca Kilpatrick | Montesano, WA
I believe in truth over lies when building a democracy for all.
Ashley SwansonHoye | Kansas City, MO
Leonor Torres | CHICAGO, IL
Teaching true history allow us to grow as a people. Other countries can get past their past. We keep repeating it.
Shane James | Hyattsville, MD
Catherine Cunningham-Yee | Chicago, IL
The weight of history is on our shoulders and truth is not optional, political, or refutable.
Sanaz Mobasseri | Boston, MA
Robert Hyatt | Chicago, IL
I believe in the power of truth and reconciliation.
Hannah Duff | Kansas City, MO
Terry Martin | Brunswick, ME
I want to teach the truth and not be forced to teach mere propaganda. I fear that my country, in the name of patriotism, is heading in the opposite direction towards authoritarianism and censoring free speech. I also fear that though my state legislature has not attempted to pass a bill that attempts to censor the teaching of history, it may be influenced by our sister state's attempt.
Tanya Johnson | Houston, TX
my district is buying in to the CRT and I disagree with them 100 percent.
William Goble | Birmingham, AL
Our students deserve to be taught the truth in American history. Teachers like myself also deserve the autonomy to teach all facets of the curriculum they are responsible for covering; that includes the parts of history that reactionaries, white supremacists, and politicians who pander & enable these people, want to gloss over and blot out in the history books. It’s the teachers who are the professionals and know their content- not these noise-makers. Let’s keep #TeachingTruth as we always have!
Amy Cline | Annapolis, MD
I believe the truth should be taught no matter what so that we can heal, recreate and co-create a future.
Maryclare Flores | Chicago, IL
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.