Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Keith Rose | New York, NY
We cannot be Erased
cameryn oliva | New York, NY
Jessica Ayala | New York, NY
Jamiah Harrell | Queens
Denise Duncan | South Valley Stream, NY
Snehal Bhakta | Summerlin South, NV
I believe it is the right thing to do.
Virginia Richard | Parkville, MD
We must know our history.
Tina Marie Page | Hyattsville, MD
I want my son and the other students to be taught the truth about the united states and the world. I don't want the youth to keep learning the same white washed lie I was taught in school.
Jennifer Norville | Littleton, CO
Students must know the truth about history in order to improve their futures and learn from historical mistakes, not pretend they never happened.
Iris King | Bristol, CT
Not teaching black history damages black youth in a way that is IMMEASURABLE!!!!!
Jessica Goodwyn | Portland, OR
Cara Erickson | Monona, WI
Black Lives Matter in Education, in Nature, in Business, and in Society. Black Lives Matter Everywhere.
Kayla Bickford | Farmingdale, ME
This is so beyond wrong. These laws are essentially wanting to delete history. The big question is why? What is in the agenda that the government is doing to want these laws to pass?
Megan McQueen | Corvallis, OR
the only way we can move forward toward equity is if we are honest about our past.
Heather Collins | Lynn, MA
Elizabeth Cesarini | Philadelphia, PA
It is morally and ethically right to teach and prepare students for our global future. Politicians have no business telling teachers what questions they may answer, and run the risk of further alienating our most vulnerable students. Furthermore, limiting education is the work of fascists.
Rose Alon | Hyattsville, MD
RAYMOND WEINMANN | Chester, PA
Conservatives in this country continue to troll the truth for political gain. This ought not to be tolerated.
Hannah Cooper | Long Beach, CA
Karen Shively-Sanders
Marvin Burton | Waldorf, MD
it is essential that all students understand the challenges and triumphs of the American experience. The trials of the African people over the past 400 years who were enslaved and fought for freedom both political, socially, financially, and quite frankly physically should not be hidden because of how ugly the journey with civil disobedience has been. I stand for the realization of history not the rationalized mythology of the American dream.Stand with me educators across the globe, African American History matters.
Elyssa Droge | Portland, OR
students need to know the truth about our country. Without truth, we are doing them a disservice.
Brianna Medina | Chicago, IL
I want to support BLM at schools because there needs to be more awareness about racism in US history and how this information impacts us now. We need the truth, not the lies.
Mbahlia Colson | Washington, DC
Maria Burke | Fontana, CA
It is important for me as a white passing Latina to do my part in trying to push for American's truth to be told to all without compromise and filter.
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.