Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
gina m sully | Buffalo, NY
Facts matter.
Janice Law | Tampa, FL
Only dictatorships and fascists deny truths. I will not be part of that and will always fight against efforts to limit truths in history and education. The easiest way to control a populace is to keep them from asking questions.
Velia Cortalano
Marybeth Pacilio | Mattituck, NY
Plain and simple, I refuse to lie to my students.
Lawrence Ruich | Ferris, TX
Sandra Rigo | Staten Island, NY
My history has been muddled in lies. I’m interested in truth to resolve today’s problems and to avoid future problems in society.
Gwen Johnston | Seattle, WA
Critical thinking should be embedded in our educational system. They don’t need to be “taught” anything in particular…just given the tools to be able to critically think about and assess our history and the structures of systemic racism in our society. They draw their own conclusions and connections.
Adam Howard | Waterville, ME
Truth is important!
Tomoko Yokooji | Honolulu, HI
Jenna Brito | Tucson, AZ
I will not let the white establishment silence me. I will continue to teach an accurate account of history. This includes teaching about how racism, sexism, xenophobia, etc is deeply embedded into our society and how it continues to shape out experiences.
Helen Murdoch | Santa Barbara, CA
It is important to teach the truth
Cristina Cordova | Perrysburg, OH
My students need to know the true history of this country.
Robin Pugh | San Francisco, CA
You can’t truly teach real estate in the US without teaching the history of redlining and other discriminatory practices that cheat Black and Brown Americans out of the opportunity to build wealth. Students can’t understand the world they live in without knowledge of how it got that way. This is why we require the study of history to graduate. I stand with my fellow educators who commit to teaching the full history of the US and developing critical thinking so students can better understand and improve how we all live and work together on this planet.
Victor Luftig | Charlottesville, VA
Among the most important educational institutions in the United States today are the 1619 Project initiative of the New York Times, the Learning for Justice Curriculum of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Zinn Education Project, American children deserve first-rate educations, not obfuscations and lies.
Jacqueline Arnold | Columbia, MO
Teachers are getting doxxed online for trying to support our students' rights to their own history. I am tired of the truth being buried.
Omar Dphrepaulezz | Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Jennifer Graves | North Haven, CT
Michelle Sánchez | Denver, CO
Darlene Fortier | Santa Fe, NM
We need to teach truth to our students. Anything less, and we will lose their trust. We need to respect their ability to think critically. Teaching our true history, as it unfolded through time, is that respect.
Eliza Korshin | Lemon Grove, CA
Our students deserve it.
Jackie Taylor | Vancouver, WA
It is our role as educators to teach our students how to find and know the truth, how to determine credible sources and how to think critically.
C Lukens | Wausau, WI
integrity is of the utmost importance to me as an educator.
Jessica Cummings | Columbia, MO
The truth is important.
Colleen Lindsay | Brush Prairie, WA
Katy Swalwell | Des Moines , IA
Our kids 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.