Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Shankara Getchonis | Las Vegas, NV
I am a pre-service teacher who believes that youth should be given the truth and tools to make society better.
Jodi Greene , PA
I refuse to lie to my students.
Sam Diener | Waltham, MA
Education should foster liberation, not repression.
Nicole Beall | New York, NY
Our country needs to do better
ilana friedman | Beacon, NY
Telling the truth is important if we want a future filled responsible and wise citizens and leaders.
Christa Fletcher | Dallas, TX
It is imperative to keep our actual history available to our children! We cannot erase suffering because we want to believe it didn’t happen. Even homeschoolers are under fire here! I will not kowtow to aggression against the truth anywhere be it public, private, or in home education.
Luke Vaughn | Springfield, MO
Tirzah Camacho
We have to model that another way is possible & that we care about every student and their particular needs and survival.
Michael Cadaret | Swissvale, PA
Teaching truth liberates us from ignorance and allows our students to see themselves in history, in the stories of others, and gain self love and understanding of others.
Skye Murphy | Mill Valley, CA
It is imperative that students learn the truth about American history and the racist, imperialist, genocidal foundations of our economy and public institutions. Freedom cannot exist when knowledge is repressed.
Christina Noyes | Wappingers Falls, NY
I didn't learn the truth of our country's history in school and I don't want to make that same mistake with my students.
Sheila Connors | Amherst, NY
we should not be afraid to teach the truth of history. It is important for students to understand the past in order to become individuals who help forge a more fair present and future.
Bryanna Mendez | Clifton, NJ
I refuse to lie to my students. They deserve to learn about their history and understand how history affects their lives today.
Nancy Sullivan | Portland, OR
I've dedicated my life to providing essential access to information so students can become the just citizens we all need them to be.
Beverly WASHINGTON | Norcross, GA
Because many at Georgia Correctional Institutions have and are being taught lies regarding history.
Shawyna Turner | Columbus, OH
Our children need to know the history of America and how this history continues to try to destroy remove all rights we have. How America has made its plight to destroy a race of people at any cost.
Susanne Bischoff | Pasadena, MD
Reading opens minds and hearts to the experiences of others - Empathy for others is what makes Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness possible for all!
Valencia Abbott | Reidsville, NC
My History Matters!
Jade Rivera
my students have a right to learn about the entirety of history and all other subjects.
Staci Owens | Minneapolis, MN
I believe we must learn the past to learn from the past. We also need for our students to learn and understand that in the face of prejudice, hate, and oppression people have risen up, fought, resisted, and held on to their joy and hope for the future.
kris nystrom | Hartford, CT
If not the truth, what's the alternative?
Dori Gerber | Altamonte Springs, FL
students have the right to learn about everything - the good, the bad, and the ugly - and learn how to use historical and current information to think critically and independently about how that information affects their past, present, and future.
APRIL LACOMBE | Portland, OR
Teaching truth is still allowed and supported where I teach in Beaverton and I am horrified and terrified at the injustice of not being able to.
Melody Weiler , PA
Samantha Le Vine Schmidt | Germantown, TN
The truth is everything
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.