Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Leontina Hormel | Moscow, ID
I am against the unconstitutional actions to censor dialog about US history and the country's dependence on settler colonialism, and the intersectional systems of oppression, including racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.
Jennifer Treadwell | La Mesa, CA
I will teach the truth about this country's story!
Jeff Bean | Big Rapids, MI
We don’t change until we see the reality.
Mickalle Hoevelman | Rosharon, TX
Teaching should be truth.
Janice Morris | Columbia, MO
There is ONE truth about the history of the USA whether or not the white Republican establishment wants to acknowledge it!
Kris Lytle | Houston, TX
I owe it to my diverse group of students to teach a true version of the history of music in America, at a grade-appropriate level.
Luciany Melo da Silva | Philadelphia, PA
#teachtruth
Shelly Ehrke | Santa Monica, CA
I pledge to teach the truth.
William Goble | Birmingham, AL
Teaching American history correctly and not through a biased faux-patriotic/right-wing lens is intellectually and morally important. I will not cave in or be pressured in teaching the subject I love so much this way.
Jennifer Cordero | Cordova, TN
Susanne Sawyer | Columbia, MO
Karla Strand | Waukesha, WI
Emma Milius | Nevada, IA
My students deserve to have all of the facts and make their own decisions and conclusions as the standards direct us to do.
Steven Moreno-Terrill | Oceanside, CA
It is necessary to cultivate and nourish a critical consciousness in our students through a humanizing education in order to create a just and democratic society. Teaching about the history and dynamics of race, racism, and white supremacy is a moral obligation for a society committed to justice and freedom. Limiting students' opportunities to learn about their own and others' histories undermines their growth toward becoming critically thinking, culturally competent, ethical, and compassionate members of society. Hiding histories of the inequalities, injustices, and racist violence that shaped and continue to shape the nation promotes a fantasy heritage and monocultural education that upholds white supremacy. Our students and communities deserve empowering opportunities to develop racial justice literacy through a socially just, culturally sustaining, and equity oriented education.
Michel Coconis | Gahanna, OH
the truth shall set you free...but first, it will scare you, it will cause a backlash, and, eventually, we will be on the right side of justice. I am not for indoctrination. I am for making sure that these ideas, so absent from curricula for most of the time have had too short of a moment in education. #CriticalThinkingRequiresFacts
Jacqueline Roller | Sarasota, FL
History must be taught.
Ingrid Sabio-McLaughlin | Randallstown, MD
I am signing because it is vital to our society that our citizenry understand our nation's history and how we have come to some of the disparities in our society. If we don't understand the past, we can't effectively create strategies for the future. Banning learning about history is anti-democratic.
Tim Sieber | Dorchester, MA
No matter how old we or our students are, we always need to seek to know and understand more about our truthful past, and to talk about it honestly. This is a life-long process.
Nola Butler-Byrd | SPRING VALLEY, CA
Because Conservative Race Theory = modern-day racism must be stopped. Empathy, care, antiracism, inclusion, and true democratic practice must be taught in all of our schools in order for the U.S. to survive and thrive. We need to know our history so we can stop repeating it.
Dawn Demps | Sahuarita, AZ
Tara Lockhart | San Francisco, CA
truth is essential to education. We can not understand our present unless we understand our past, and how none of us are free until we are all free.
Kimberlee Gregory | West Des Moines, IA
Teaching the truth of history is important. It is also important because as a social worker it is important that I know the history in order to help my clients who may be dealing with traumatic events.
Grace Helms-Kotre | Ann Arbor, MI
Amanda Skubick | Valley Village, CA
Justice requires truth.
Alexandro Ochoa | Watsonville, CA
I am committed to 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.