Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Marianthi Koritsaris | Des Plaines, IL
I believe social studies should be taught using primary sources so learning cam be authentic
Jaki Florsheim | Brooklyn , NY
I believe in teaching truth.
siobhan thaler | Tampa, FL
I believe that all students should learn the truth about history. I listened to a presentation about racism and it showed me how the laws that limit discussions about racism and inequality prevent students from developing an understanding about the world around them. As a future educator I want to make sure all my students feel valued and informed. Ignoring these topics don't protect our students it only limits their learning.
Maya Moneze | Tampa, FL
I am currently studying to teach special education. The field of education is the sole foundation of our society. A society that is diverse, complicated, and raw. Our job as educators is to prepare our students who compile the future of our nation to not only assimulate to this society but understand how to improve it. To adequetly prepare our students we must expose them to accurate represetnations of reality. The best way to do this is through literature. We cannot ban our students key to their personal success and the strength of our nation's foundation.
Tanya Neumann | Aurora, CO
Teaching the truth is the only way our country can move forward. Students aren't afraid to hear the truth. It does not make them hateful towards our country. It inspires them to see to see how far our country has come and how far we have yet to go.
Thomas Germain | Boulder, CO
Our country is quickly sliding into authoritarian rule, and too many of its democratic institutions and ideas are under threat.
Kelly Creel | Tampa, FL
I’m an accomplished and educated teacher with expertise above and beyond what the politicians and billionaires who run this country have to share. My students deserve my expertise, wisdom, and knowledge and that’s why I left the corporate world to become a teacher.
Patricia Florial | Orlando, FL
The truth cannot be covered up. Students should know the REAL history of the United States of America.
Stephanie Moody | Indialantic, FL
students deserve to learn HOW to think- not WHAT to think.
Gabriel Silvano | Morton Grove, IL
Paul Scott | Minneola, FL
Only by teaching the unvarnished truth of or country can we fulfill its promise of all people being equal.
Jeryle Murphy | Miami, FL
I am retired and feel that children should be taught their history. I propose a family tree be mandated for those who propose to not teach history of this country. They may change their minds..and from a different perspective they may a part of what is being taught.Black and Native American.
Andrea Dort | Clearwater, FL
I believe my legislation is undermining my ability to teach my students on how to think and ask questions, to verify and find evidence for accurate reporting if news and history. The state is convinced that Socialism and Communism is the same evil. Political agendas are the force behind the changes in history.
Diana Patrissi | Tampa
True history has to be taught so that it is not repeated.
Lynn McCarville | Rockledge, FL
Jillian Jordan | Grass Valley, CA
Forgetting where we were about 80 years ago has not helped our society to thrive. My daughter has fewer rights than those that her foremothers fought so hard for.
Sandra Torres | Lecanto, FL
I now know how the Holocaust started because we are experiencing it today and I don't want future generations to forget the horror that we are repeating because we are not teaching our students true history.
Jacqueline Otto | Tallahassee, FL
The education system is completely falling apart. Teachers are not paid enough and now we are facing a shortage of teachers which puts an extra strain on the teachers still remaining because we don’t have the support we need.
Jason Keller | Fort Collins, CO
We need to teach our students the truth about our history, rather than teaching a whiggish, whitewashed perspective of American History, we should teach our scholars of tomorrow a real history of our country, whether they appreciate it or not. We know that our country was formed from stolen Native American land, and that we long treated Black Americans as enslaved property for years. Support this accurate, fact-based perspective of American History.
Erika Schmitt | Worcester, MA
My students deserve to feel seen and respected. Regardless of their skin color, nationality or creed.
Jaclyn Ekhoff | Littleton, CO
the truth will set us free.
Jon Mariz | Grand Junction, CO
My learners deserve to know history in its entirety. The unvarnished truth.
Amanda Miller | Fayetteville, AR
I believe in the truth.
Heather Topolski | Pittsfield, MA
The only way forward is to acknowledge the past and learn from it. Teaching the truth is the least I can do for my students.
Cassandra Belton | Columbia, MD
Its important to teach the truth; even it's painful to hear.As a first generation AfroCaribbean American woman, I pledge to teach the truth about marginalized people.
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.