Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Amy Owen | Los Angeles, CA
Edward Mejia-Sarate | San Leandro, CA
We’ve got two years to right this ship!
Amy Schmidt | Portland, OR
Caroline Hooper | Minneapolis, MN
Students deserve the truth.
Shannon Beaudette | Santa Barbara, CA
Rubianna Perez | Lakeland, FL
As a soon to be history teacher, I believe the students need to know the truth so as to learn from it.
Billie Martin | Lancaster, CA
It’s important for all people to understand and hear the voices of everyone that makes up the United States and not just those who held power.
Suzanne Dixon | Rochester, NY
Kirsten Sierra | Richland, WA
My students deserve to know the truth
Stacy Fox | La Crescenta, CA
I believe that we all have a responsibility to learn the truth.
Joshua Cornue | Rochester, NY
Stephanie Barron | Colorado Springs, CO
This is a start to systemic change concerning racism!
Raymundo Renteria | Whittier, CA
The truth matters in history.
Gail Jaitin | Bronx, NY
Truth matters. Facts matter.
David Dixon | Redondo Beach, CA
Our students—who will soon enough be politically involved adults—should be literate in the history of their nation. Our history is difficult and we must face and learn it in order to move forward in our relationships with each other as Americans. In the case of the influence of white supremacy on our nation’s history— which is all that “Critical Race Theory” amounts to — and the current efforts by Republican Party law makers, media pundits, and activists to censor the teaching of that history, it is important for educators to oppose and defy any effort to legislate the ignorance of our students. For this reason, I sign my name to this petition.
Erin Saal | Akron, OH
Magdalena Villalba
students deserve to know the truth about the present and past in order to create a better future for themselves and love ones.
Amy-Nicole Roat , PA
Toba Bernstein | Fairless Hills, PA
learning the truth about past is how we improve the future.
Joel Shroder | South Portland, ME
Jon Hardy | Rochester, NY
Robert Bonifacio | Fairfield, CA
History has to be taught more accurately and responsibly to better inform and educate our society. We have a responsibility to the past, ourselves, and to future generations to do so.
Suzanne Martin-Pillsbury | Cape Elizabeth, ME
Lindsay Brown | Denver, CO
My students deserve the right to learn the truth and to make up their own minds about what to do with it.
Katie Kizzie | Durham, NC
Critical race theory and racial & social justice education are crucial to changing our culture and society to promote the success of ALL people. We have to stop whitewashing history and teach the true history of our country.
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.