Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Emmy Talian | Philadelphia, PA
Our students deserve to hear multiple, critical perspectives and to reach their own conclusions from complete information.
Jordan Preston | Council Bluffs, IA
Until we examine the true history of our world and its people, we cannot make societies and spaces where everyone has a voice and everyone is equal.
Ashley Roane | San Diego, CA
We need to be aware of the truth in order to create a better future for us all.
Liz Sugano | Kent, WA
All our future generations deserve to know the truth about our countries history so that it isn't repeated.
Malik Moore | Columbus, OH
We need to honestly reckon with our past to create a future where all people can feel confident that the things we are afraid to talk about will stay in the past - unless some are hoping they become a reality again.
Lisa Bonilla | Pflugerville, TX
The truth matters and our students deserve it!
Lorena German
Students deserve a curriculum that is truth-telling and one that affirms their identity.
Michael Pitblado , ONCA
Bree K | Bellmead, TX
Alicia Boock | Steilacoom, WA
My child lives in an area stolen from Native tribes and deserves to know the truth about the founding of our country, how part of the family was treated poorly and the other part was not based on their skin color and language. History of our land will not be hidden - this should be the same in schools.
Edie Mileham | Madison, WI
Truth is truth; it may be ugly, but facing it is how we change. If we cannot be honest with our young people about our history and how it has led us to an unfair social system, how can they ever build the beautiful world we want them to live in: a world of kindness, justice, and love of the truth?
Evelyn Israel | New York, NY
It is important that students are exposed to the oppression and challenges that certain groups have faced throughout history in our country, and continue to face today. I thought it was bad enough that my teachers did not include much history of systemic oppression in my curriculum throughout primary and secondary school, but to imagine that it would be outlawed for teachers to do that is horrible.
Grace Lacques | Los Angeles, CA
Courtney M | San Luis Obispo, CA
Marshata Caradine | St. Louis, MO, MO
Our children MUST know the truth to change the trajectory of their life's journey. Because of BLACK PEOPLE they are, have been.
Jessica Duarte | Woodland, CA
Teaching history means teaching the truth!
Kelly Curtright | Clio, MI
All of U.S. History should be taught: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Thomas Fiori | Miami Beach, FL
Victoria Hay | Gerstungen
To create a Culturally relevant curriculum includes critical perspective of knowledge bases. We have to share all histories.
Dehlia Seim | Duluth, MN
failing to teach the truth holds back progress. It allows hate to grow and history to repeat itself. When we know better, we must do better. Our job as adults/educators is to give children the knowledge and tools to think critically about these facts so as to create a future that is better for all people, not just the normative white supremacy.
Tina Tryforos | Rumford, RI
it is essential that we teach the truth about racial inequity and its history in the US.
Katherine Towle | Silver Spring, MD
Michelle Conway | Tacoma, WA
Teaching the truth is essential to change. "If not me then who?" We can no longer stand by and allow ignorance to be our excuse for our intolerance.
Joellen Kriss-Broubalow | Springfield, VA
I will not lie to young people.
Kristin Strasser | San Diego, CA
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.