Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Jennifer Diamond | Seattle, WA
Amy Treadwell | Chicago, IL
Mark Roudané | Saint Paul, MN
Our historical amnesia, especially with respect to Black history, is shameful. Anti-racist education is urgently needed!
Jessika ochoa | National City, CA
Johanna Trout | Billings, MT
Students need experience with discussing and responding as a community to current events. If we can teach students how to listen to each other and discuss what is happening around them with their friends they will have an essential skill that will benefit them their whole lives!
Heather Epps | Lakeland, FL
The truth needs to be told.
Michelle Holmquist | Sun Prairie, WI
Educators have a unique opportunity to influence the future, and I pledge to make sure I do my part to help the next generation embrace our diversity and find strength in unity by teaching them the truth about our past and our present.
Karin Wilhelm-Safian | San Jose, CA
Not being able to teach the hard parts of history has led to a lot of the problems we have today.
Elaine Baca | Monterey, CA
I have “lied” too many years. Once you know you are compelled to do better.
Brianne Logan | Laurel, MT
It's the right thing to do.
Molly Sterner | San Diego , CA
This is absolutely disgusting. I currently teach about white supremacy and colonialism in my third-grade classroom.......And will continue to do so!
Lindsay Yellen | San Francisco, CA
It’s about time we face our history and arm students with the facts of our complicated past. Having the opportunity to examine the often ignored perspectives and narratives of the past will enable students to become stand up citizens and strong allies for equity. The outcome will be greater freedom for all.
Annelise Meunier | Oakland, CA
Banning teachers from teaching their students about the complex and rich history that made their country is to destroy that same country by making students ignorant, single-minded and unable to make the right decisions for their own life, but also for their community. How do you expect one to understand their place in a society if they do not have the tools to understand it and its history? How do you expect one to make thoughtful decisions if their perspective is reduced to one story from one point of view? Let's help our students be successful by giving them all the tools they need to move forward on a clearly thought out path.
Laurie Van Roekel | Billings, MT
I believe our children must know the truth of the history of our country in order to learn from it and build a stronger, more unified country in the future.
Sara Kane | Billings, MT
Our community deserves the truth. Our students need authentic experiences. We must confront the hard parts in order to bring brighter days.
Amy Wilkinson | Lemoore, CA
Censorship in any form is wrong. I don’t even teach history, but I do teach context, and you can’t make anything relevant without an honest discussion of the context of the work and it’s relevance to today. Banning the discussion of systemic racism is in itself, systemic racism.
Helena Gougeon | Redmond, WA
I believe the truth needs to be taught and the nuances of history are complex, using critical theory allows for deeper understanding of who we are as Americans and as humans.
Anne-Bernadette Weiner | Chicago, IL
Kimberley Lord | Saint Albans, VT
I care about teaching the truth and feel it is essential to our future.
Alaura Cook | Milwaukee, WI
Megan Salinas | Manor, TX
Cap Wilhelm-Safian | San Jose, CA
We cannot become "a more perfect union" without confronting the injustices of our shared past.
Linda Serrato | Chico, CA
We need to teach the true history of the U.S. or our country is doomed.
matt m | Austin, TX
Brigette Hutchison , TX
This is important. Children deserve to have a well rounded education with an understanding of CRT & other current events.
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.