Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Olivia Meyer | Reno, NV
So the young generation knows the full story
Amanda Hartlage | Bellmead, TX
“One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” – Martin Luther King Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," April 1963We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events.
Matt Webster | Pittsfield, MA
I live in a state that does not have these horrible laws. However these laws being passed anywhere damage our society.
Mary Reinhardt | Truro, MA
I want to support early childhood development
Nancy Kuse | Florissant, MO
Current legislation to ban teaching the truth about race in the US is unconstitutional and a threat to democratic traditions.
Michael Breen | Bedford, NH
I feel it is my duty to get involved in such a beautiful and important cause. Everyone's business is my business
Keila Ramirez | Corpus Christi, TX
I believe that the future generation of this country should be fully aware of the events that happened, and give us a reason why our political climate is the way it is and allow us to form how it should be, and shun ignorance.
Gayle Horwitz | Vancouver, WA
Critical Race Theory embraces the concepts of race and racism and tasks itself with honest, factual, dialogue that helps to bring understanding to complex issues. I am disheartened by others who try to vilify CRT, but not racism. I am disheartened to have those in Christianity or any institution change the narrative to one's own purposes, usually to whitewash our history at our own peril because it is "uncomfortable". We cannot strive for a more fair and equitable nation if we don't learn from the past. We cannot be society that exemplifies the values in the Bill of Rights, if we legislate laws and policies that promote some people over others. CRT is tantamount to fighting injustice and ignorance.
Delia Dreher | Oakland, CA
Mary Klein | Bothell, WA
I believe in the dignity of all children and their capacity to recognize the dignity of others if we expose to the truth of present and past history as is age appropriate. I have found if small children are in a mixed group of children of various heritages they do not form prejudices.
Michelle Tichy | Sanford, FL
As a Mother, Scholar, Educator, and Citizen of these United States, I want our students to be taught the honest and factual history of this country.
Shayna Wood | Littleton, CO
Paige Young Cannon | Austin, TX
Children need to learn the truth in order for society to heal the past and move forward with compassion and justice for all peoples. Our country was built on subjugation, pain, and suffering. For humanity to evolve, we must acknowledge and own our mistakes so we can move forward together.
Jaiya Correll-Greene | Philadelphia, PA
Phyllis Brandano | Port Saint Lucie, FL
We need not be afraid of what’s happened in the past unless we don’t learn from it. If our students aren’t taught the problems we’ve helped make, how can they prevent the injustices from continuing?
Margaret Orlando | Poplar Bluff, MO
All sides of history should be taught. Not just the side of the oppressors' or victors'.
Kate Englund-Kenealy | Chicago, IL
Veronica Keefer-Germani | Deptford, NJ
Our students deserve far more credit than legislation like this grants them. They are compassionate and they care about the experiences of those like and unlike them. They deserve to learn the truth--it is in fact their RIGHT--and it is our RESPONSIBILITY to teach it to them, regardless of how it makes us feel and our own personal political affiliation.
Genesis Vasquez | Chicago, IL
Students NEED to know the truth.! Students need to know where they come from without anything being sugar coated for them.
Emma Hostetler | Chicago, IL
Jessica Cook-Qurayshi | Burbank, IL
Lynne Breitenstein-Aliberti | Alexandria, VA, VA
...our children deserve to know the truth! Banning books and banning content is not the answer. I stand with educators everywhere who are speaking out and who continue to teach the truth. It is very hard to learn about some of the violence that was perpetuated against Black people by white people, and shocking, but we need to start to make amends.
Moira McNellis | Chicago, IL
Austin Stensby | Minot, ND
AMY WILLIAMS | Rockingham, NC
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.