Submitted on Sunday 31st May 2020
Rejected on Thursday 18th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make it compulsory for Black History to be taught in all schools.
Teaching of Black History should be compulsory in schools. The current approach towards awareness of racism is inadequate, as it fails to clearly explain the inequality which black people have faced. Students should be taught in depth about slavery, the civil rights movement and British colonialism.
Thousands of black people have encountered racism in many forms, whether it be through micro-aggressions, discrimination or other hate crimes.
Reports of race hate crimes are increasing each year in the U.K. by approximately 10,000 which must come to an end.
Racism is caused by prejudice, ignorance and conformity to racial attitudes in society. The best way to tackle this is to educate in depth about the impact of racism to help change racial attitudes of the future generations to come.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961
Make black history a compulsory part of the national curriculum for all ages: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323654
Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092
We have also published several petitions about race and equality more widely, which you can view here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&topic=race-and-equality
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