Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Danyelle L Matthews | Adrian
I believe teaching our youth the real history of this country will help them develop empathy and compassion as they will be the leaders sooner than later.
Elise Schebler Roberts | Plymouth, MN
Mark Peifer | Chapel Hill, NC
We can best face the future with the facts in hand. Otherwise our children will learn we're lying and never trust us again.
Ann Niederkorn | Cambridge, MA
This matters
Linda Vandepopuliere | Columbia, MO
It is critical that accurate and truthful history be taught. Students need to understand the past in order to understand our present situation and to make a better future.
Jessica RODARTE | Los Angeles, CA
The truth is the only way.
Bill Cupp | Columbia, MO
David Cochran | Carterville, IL
Amanda Frank | Belmont, VT
Sidney Dace | Columbia, MO
Ava Hacker | Stanton, CA
Darin Stockdill | Ann Arbor, MI
It is my responsibility as an educator to speak up for what is right and true.
Katie Sipho | Columbia, MO
Daniel Noyes | Seattle, WA
I want to show support to my colleagues who have a harder go teaching our subject outside of the bubble that is Seattle due to fragile and self-serving legislators and voters.
MacKenzie Everett-Kennedy | Columbia, MO
Teaching history based in truth matters.
JuanDiego Montemayor | Los Angeles, CA
Truth matters
Roger Moreano | Gurnee, IL
Jennifer Samaniuk | Colonie Town of, NY
My students knowing the truth is more important than keeping white peoples comfortable.
Susannah Livingston | Little Rock, AR
All knowledge is political and true patriots love their country enough that they nature it so it can grow in the right direction for all its citizens.
Tamra Snell | Austin, TX
Maggie LaRiviere | Bingen, WA
Their story, our story, her story all matter as history.
Katie Keier | Alexandria, VA
Abby Cohen | Newton Highlands, MA
Truth is still important!
Traci Jensen | Houston, TX
You can’t talk about history without the critical piece. Please do not legislate on something you know nothing about.
Kathy Cook | Minneapolis, MN
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.