Submitted on Monday 1st June 2020
Rejected on Thursday 11th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Make history a mandatory GCSE subject and include racism in the curriculum
Parliament must make history a mandatory subject for all students including in GCSE. They must also ensure the curriculum involves teaching British involvement in slavery, colonialism and its history of racism.
History is essential to tackling racism in the UK. Too many BAME individuals are suffering at the hands of unchecked underlying racism due to the poor educational attitudes towards race relations. History becoming a mandatory subject overcomes this barrier. It ensures that students understand the current socioeconomic environment through a comprehensive learning of the past treatment of BAME individuals as a result of British history of racism, involvement in slavery and colonialism.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We understand that you want the Government to change how schools teach history, but it's not clear exactly what changes you want the Government to make.
HIstory is already a compulsory subject for Key Stage 3. For Key Stage 4, the Government sets the national curriculum, including "core" and "foundation" subjects, but does not specify that particular GCSEs are mandatory. This is a decision for individual schools to make based on the qualifications they offer.
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808
Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961
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
You could start a petition calling on the Government to make history a core subject for Key Stage 4 students, if you want to petition on this change, as distinguished from the petitions that are already open, listed above.
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