Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Melody Cortés | West Covina, CA
Because students deserve to practice being critical thinkers without “sugar coating,” history.
Noah Zeichner | Seattle, WA
Keith Brooks | Brooklyn, NY
i could write a book about why i'm signing. actually, i am writing a book to be titled "MythAmerica: the Hidden Histories, Dirty Little Secrets, Half-Truths and Outright Lies of Amerian History"
Laura-Susan Thomas | Santa Maria, CA
I feel we need to look at our truths from the past in order to not repeat them. In order for us to grow and come together as a people.
Krista Martin | Portland, OR
Truth matters. Hiding the true story has gone on long enough.
Niku Bolourchi | San Francisco, CA
Being honest about where we’ve come allows us to soberly see and address where we are right now and how we want to shape the future. Restorative justice for a reimagined future.
Brooke Warren | Portland, OR
Alexandra Sheridan | Irvine, CA
The only way the future can make change is by truly understanding the past.
Melissa Arechiga | Long Beach, CA
Indigenous people are still here! The US government labels us immigrants on our own LAnd and continent when we are the rightful heir of the LAnd. 2021 indigenous people live under consist government occupation of our stolen LAnd. Are children are locked away in cages and family's separated. In order to cause kill our spirit. Just like they did with when stole indigenous children and put them in residential school. Now we are finding our indigenous children bodies buried under these horrible places. History is repeating. As an indigenous woman I need to educate my people, community, and relatives. In addition fight for accounting from those in power and corporation who have harmed us and continue to take from us without offering anything back and a lack of remorse. For example the #dodgers corporation #Displacers #IndigenouseLAnd #StolenLAnd #HonortheTreaties #TeachthekidstheTruth #LAndBack #VivaPaloVerde #LaLoma and #Bishop #NotChavezRavine #buriedundertheblue #ArechigaFamilyPresent ✊
Kayla Frank | Tacoma, WA
I love all of my students and refuse to lie to them. They deserve to learn the truth, to expand their critical thinking skills, develop their own styles of activism, and to pursue a more just world.
Akemi Mercedes | Emeryville, CA
everyone deserves an opportunity to learn the truth
Jen Blackwood | Seattle, WA
Eric Schroeder | New Orleans, LA
Danielle Sanders | Lynnwood, WA
It’s time to tel the truth and start to heal.
Abigaiut Palof | Louisville, KY
Donna Rottier | San Diego, CA
I am committed to developing students’ critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills, and this cannot be done without access to truth.
Alexa McConville | Blackfoot, ID
Telling schools they can have more money if they pledge to not teach race theory is the reason Idaho ranks so low in education. It’s embarrassment. It. Is. Racist.
Sarah Peters | Portland, OR
Education is the only remedy to ignorance and hate
Semmel Jessica | New York, NY
I teach my students to be actively anti racist everyday and the true history of this country. Children can reckon with the country’s past bc they want it to be better
Kim Malolepsy | Portland , OR
The truth matters and it needs to be taught!
Lea Hansen | Richland Center, WI
As a professional educator, I cannot in good conscience teach an incomplete and/or inaccurate history of the United States to my students. To do so would do my students a disservice. The study and practice of history and historical thinking skills are vital in the development of an informed, engaged citizenry. Civic engagement is essential to the health and well-being of our nation.
Gloria Boutte | Columbai, SC
I believe in the democratic principle of freedom of speech. History should not be whitewashed.
Ivonne Montoya | Lovington, NM
As an older sibling. I would want and will teach my younger siblings the truth about history. And I would expect their teachers to teach them too. It took adulthood for me to do my own research on history that school nor college classes taught me. I pledge so my siblings can leaen the truth. Not lies one man or a group of men decided to tell for the whole world.
Michelle Ring | Seabeck, WA
I value a more just society where teachers can speak the truth about touchy subjects that affect us all.
Candice Zawoiski | Cleveland, OH
Learning the truth about the country's history is the only way to change the present and create a better world. It's integral to learn about the history of oppression and injustice in order to fight to end all forms of oppression and injustice.
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.