Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Robin Fischer | Buffalo, NY
You cannot teach lies or evade the truth of American history
Deborah Shishido | New York, NY
Nicole Castine | Buffalo, NY
Stacey York | Spring Valley, MN
Systemic oppression is a root cause of injustice and it negatively impacts children’s development and well being. A democratic government should not be allowed to silence or ban a major theory because it’s inconvenient or uncomfortable.
David Boehnke | Minneapolis, MN
I will do this!
Alexa Chestnut | Columbia, MD
Joe Koeppen | Sheboygan Falls, WI
I will continue to teach the truth
Martha Gensemer-Ramirez | Durham, NC
Amy Schlessman | Annandale, VA
I believe in teaching students the truth and giving them skills to make a better world.
Daria Bliss | Bellaire, MI
Our students are the best hope we have to build the America we want to see in the future. In order for them to be able to do this, they must learn the whole truth about our past and present.
Kelly Walker | Brooklyn, NY
the only way America lives up to its promise is through telling the truth to our young people. Only then might this country become as inclusive and as free as it's always promised to be.
Anne Campbell | Seattle, WA
Sabrina Alli | Brooklyn, NY
Jodi LePla | Hillsboro, OR
We all deserve to learn the truth, but even more so our Black, Indigenous, and Students of Color deserve better.
Sue Bruce | Branford, CT
We have dismissed true historical education for too long, and it stops now!
Titania McGrath | Pinckney, MI
Mimi Goldman | Ithaca, NY
Christina Vasquez | Oswego, NY
Everyone should know the truth about the world we live in. We will only move forward when we truly understand our past actions.
Elizabeth Bertsch | Bridgehampton, NY
I teach real history.
Maureen Curtin | Syracuse, NY
Anne Fairbrother | Oswego, NY
We need to look at history honestly - seeing it from different perspectives - not just the "party line" that people are trying to impose on us. Tell the truth. We owe it to our young people so they have a chance to fix the mess we are in.
Casey Towne | Oswego, NY
I teach students to use the process of statistics to collect, organize, summarize and analyze data. Viewing history through a statistical lens identifies discrepancies between historical fact and fiction all while providing critical thinking opportunities.
Michael Augustine | Seattle, WA
As James Baldwin put it best:“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
Glenn Sato | Santa Monica, CA
Christine Thompson | Chicago, IL
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.