Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Michael McMullen | Spokane, WA
An uneducated populace hurts us all.
John W Barton , OR
I care.
LuntzMartin Natalie | Bloomfield, NY
WeMust teach students what is true. And teach them how to evaluate and think critically to understand many perspectives.
Dahlia Quintanilla | Chicago, IL
Justice
Emma Mortensen | Denver, CO
Erin Wesley | Lake Zurich, IL
Laura Maier | Lynnwood, WA
Our kids deserve the truth; by knowing the realities of history we can learn and be agents of change for a better future.
Jonathan Shulman | San Diego, CA
Shai Stephenson | Scarsdale, NY
We deserve the truth.
Jill Rufsvold | Seattle, WA
Julie Brumley | Seattle, WA
The truth is the only thing we can teach.
David Coplin | Germantown, MD
Truth is important
Patricia Clay | New York, NY
Our children and students deserve to understand the truth of our world. I trust students to learn about the past and craft a better future. We owe them honesty.
Andrea Anthony , OR
Bethany Fitzgerald | Baltimore, MD
It's taken/will take years of my adult life to unlearn and relearn the truth of our country's history and present systems of oppression - I'd like my children to learn the real story from the beginning so that they can be part of the solution.
Hanna Kingstrom , ID
Barbara Samuels | New York, NY
Lacey Williams | Miami, FL
Mary Klein | Dublin, CA
Students deserve to know the truth.
Cristina Pulkrabek | Shageluk, AK
Ben Ford | Indiana, PA
Students deserve to understand the full breadth of our history so that they can understand how the world they are inheriting came to be.
Michelynah Anderegg | Eugene, OR
Children deserve to know the truth, especially when information is being presented in a mandatory way, in a setting where they're being taught/expected to respect and give weight to words of adults around them.
Becky Gauthier | Carlsbad, CA
Because it is important for young people to hear the truth.
Robert Dillingham | West Palm Beach, FL
The falsification history is the most damaging insult in the study of humanity
Lindsey Wray | Flint, MI
Students deserve the truth.
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.