Submitted on Wednesday 3rd June 2020
Rejected on Thursday 11th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Decolonise the primary and secondary education curriculum
The national curriculum is dominated by a Eurocentric narrative which perpetuates systemic racism in the UK. Gavin Williamson should conduct a national curriculum review in partnership with BAME organisations & education specialists to change the narrative across all subjects in our curriculum.
This has been a bubbling conversation for many years in the UK. We as a country must look at the situation in the USA as a call to action to sort out our own systemic and institutionalised racism. We have seen that this begins with listening and learning from these oppressed groups. We must start with our national education systems and educate current and future generations on the reality of the post-colonial world we live in. We must see colour in our curricula.
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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
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
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