Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Robert Lambertz | Seattle, WA
Rob Sampson | Cheshire Town of, CT
Let teachers teach!!!!
Gia Moreno | Sacramento, CA
Lack of knowledge of the truth of American history is detrimental to the growth of our students and our nation.
CeXochitl DeLaTorre | Littleton, CO
All children need to know why and how our country came to be where it's at today. To fully understand how to navigate all systems and institutions, and find work to find solutions to issues.
Indya Champney | Sanford, NC
Raquel Williams | Los Angeles, CA
We’re not even asking for Truth and Reconciliation Committees to be mandated, which would be powerful, we just want to ability to teach factual and documented history to our students. Stifling the truth is dangerous for our future.
Amy McCourt | Philadelphia, PA
I believe in teaching facts and truth and antiracist education.
David Backer | Philadelphia, PA
TROY CLARK | Frankfort, IN
The truth matters.
Sofía Noel | Franklin, TN
Kristine Mayle | Albuquerque, NM
Jessy Bppn | Greenville, NC
Maya Anderson | Philadelphia, PA
Tamara Anderson | Philadelphia, PA
Héctor Reyes | San Antonio, TX
There is a continuous path connecting the violence and dispossession of colonialism and racism from the past to the present. To ban the discussion of these ever present realities in any place, but particularly in school and colleges, is to erase us the victims of this oppression, and to impose on us only one option, to surrender our humanity. Screw them!
Shauna Branch | Rio Rancho, NM
I will always tell the truth. I lead both ethically and with integrity. Our children deserve to learn the truth so they can become better citizens as adults.
Mitchell Freedman | Rio Rancho, NM
I believe there is systemic racism and sexism that factually exists throughout our nation's history. However, I wish to be clear I revere our Founders, revere much in our nation's history, and have concluded the lead 1619 Project essay overstated its thesis, and is flawed for reasons Gordon Wood and Sean Wilentz have identified and stated. On the other hand, I have long believed the Zinn Educational Center has much to offer all Americans, not merely high school history students, in terms of highlighting facts that have often been ignored, and provide an important set of perspectives in comprehending patterns in US History. I also believe Critical Race Theory, as it is defined as a scholarly pursuit (not the vague, cynical definitions provided by polemical political commentators), has much to offer in providing important contextual and factual information. The laws being passed in the various states, which attack CRT, Zinn Educational Center, the 1619 Project, etc. must be opposed and rejected as they will, if enforced, undermine the teaching of history in public schools. These laws are as dangerous as laws that forced or force science teachers to not teach Darwin's theory of evolution.
Pyper Dee | Saint Louis, MO
Jonathan Nwaru | New Rochelle, NY
To quote President Lincoln “Tell the people the truth and the country will be okay”
Emma Bechill | Philadelphia, PA
Gabby Linck | Philadelphia, PA
I have a duty as an educator to teach the whole truth
Brenna McLaughlin | Brooklyn, NY
Kolya Ludwig | Pasadena, CA
Barbara Johnck | Oakland, CA
Alexandra Jones | Spokane, WA
The truth matters.
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.