Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Dean Angelo Sr | Whiting, IN
The content is terrible for the future of the young minds it will poison.
Mehemiah Brooks | Dallas, TX
enough is enough and truth shall come forth and set us free! So much history has been hidden, but as a Social Justice Advocate is my duty and honor to MAKE the world a better place to live in wholesome security!.."A Change, isn't a CHANGE, until a CHANGE is made! - San Diego, California "Native" (Residency) Dallas, Texas (Oak Cliff), Committed Community Advocate Volunteer (Baltimore, Maryland)
Romany Corella | Oakland, CA
I believe only w the truth can the young people make sound decisions about the future.
M A | Evanston, IL
We deserve the truth
Anne Prendergast
I know the US educational system is rooted in white supremacist culture and I want to do what I can to change the dynamics in my classroom culture, curriculum and school.
Daniel Levine | Baltimore, MD
I have a moral obligation not to lie to my students.
Ruth Henry | Watertown, MA
We cannot learn as a nation how to stop repeating our mistakes until we can first learn how to name them and how to work to repair them.
Madeleine Morales | Encinitas, CA
Jason Smith | Chicago, IL
I pledge to teach a range of diverse works inclusive of a variety of perspectives without white-washing contexts.
Katy Curtis | Bainbridge Island, WA
What a treasure chest of learning if we look to our past and listen carefully to stories that were previously untold, erased, missed, devalued, hidden! The more of the past we find the more sense we can make of our world.
Eric Fizur | Salem, NJ
Alycia Vang
I believe in teaching the truth.
Beth Hankoff | San Jose, CA
Teachers have an obligation to teach the truth to their students. What is the point of teaching History if it is only taught from one perspective - that of the "victor?" We do not study it to memorize facts out of context; we study it to understand our world - past, present, and future. So we can learn lessons that have come before and hope never to repeat them. We cannot learn these lessons if an entire race's perspective and story are left out of the classroom. This is disgraceful and immoral.
Grace Itter | Chicago, IL
Truth
LASANDRA GLASS-GIBSON | Chicago, IL
I BELIEVE IN THE TRUTH.
Whitney Huber | Chicago, IL
I have a contribution to make to help repair our nation.
Whitney Andre | Minneapolis, MN
Lee Zanger | Annapolis, MD
We an only address issues of inequality and injustice if we understand the history of how they developed.
Celeste Winston | Philadelphia, PA
Nathaniel Kim | Philadelphia, PA
protecting students' ability to understand the harmful history of our country is an imperative interdisciplinary necessity
Nadia Jlelaty | Philadelphia, PA
we will not be silenced!
Brian Zane | Chicago, IL
Adam Geisler | Chicago, IL
we must always lead students by our actions, and they deserve to learn the history that isn't told in their textbooks.
Kristin Nakaishi | Philadelphia, PA
Black students’ lives matter!
Amanda Roesly | Philadelphia, PA
I am a school district employee and care deeply about the future generations. I want to see change and truth happening in our schools
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.