Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
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.
Jessica Jung | Oakland, CA
we must know the truths about where we have been, both as individuals and as a society, in order to create a better and just world for ourselves and others.
Emily Collias | Roseville, MI
We can be proud of our nation while acknowledging its struggles and atrocities. We can learn from the past and do better, be better. History isn’t being rewritten, it’s been fully examined.
Andrew Nsirim | New York, NY
Rebecca Dell | Concord, CA
Knowing the truth about history is critical to understanding our present and creating a positive future.
Susanna Wingenroth | Fort Myers, FL
Two wrongs don't make a right. Banning the teaching of the truth about the wrongs of our nation's history is wrong. Our nation has a complex history and our children deserve to know the truth, the parts that make us proud and the parts that are shameful. Truth is an important in healing the wrongs of the past.
Laura Reyes | Bowling Green, OH
Darren Smith | Dayton, OH
Students should have a factual understanding of the actual history of the United States and how it impacts the world the students live in today.
Brian Leslie | Las Vegas, NV
educators need to stand together against the hysteria the GOP is whipping up for the sake of 2022 election and the legislation being put forth is 100% unethical. Teachers are very much used to abuse & terrible pay. We will suffer the consequences in order to violate these new laws and not blink an eye.
Carolyn Bloomberg | Watertown, MA
Knowledge is power and those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
Deborah Cardona | New York, NY
Betsy Tribble | Denver, CO
Judith Houpert | East Hartford Town of, CT
My students want and need to know the truth of history and government. Perspectives are key to more civil discourse.
Shannon Dery | Portland, OR
I saw that the Daily Wire is publishing the names and hometowns of the teachers who will not be intimidated by the Right. This is clearly an attempt at intimidation. I will not be intimidated. Add my name.
Emer Martin | Palo Alto, CA
Don't bully teachers. This country must change to allow all of its citizens to thrive.
Kamily Sunde | Stevenson Ranch, CA
Our kids have a right to learn ALL history.
Samantha Gil Vargas | Seattle, WA
Critical race theory and the truth about the systemic oppression in this continue NEEDS to be taught to youth so we can begin to see drastic change in these oppressive systems AND youth deserve the right to learn factual truth about this country.
Alexandra Teague | Moscow, ID
It's essential that we face the inequalities on which this country has been built--and by which it still operates--in order to understand (and ask meaningful questions about) how our laws and institutions and social structure operate, and how we might create a more just society.
Jennifer Williams | Cape Elizabeth, ME
I feel we need to continue our commitment to develop critical thinking that supports students to better understand problems in our society, and to develop collective solutions to those problems. We cannot learn from the past if we do not know our past.
Heather Benson | Santa Rosa, CA
I became a history teacher to teach the truth to our children who are the future. I claim my first amendment rights and my natural rights today, as well as my ethical responsibility to always speak the truth
Katherine Riley | Philadelphia, PA
Lakresha Hodge | Paterson, NJ
Brandon Salter | Seattle, WA
Teaching actual history is important to understanding the dynamics of power and privilege in our country. Those opposed to critical race theory and anti-racist education simply want to upload the white supremacy culture that harms so many of our students.
Brian Reid | Saugerties, NY
Truth matters
Terese Roberts | South Portland, ME
this is important.
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.