Submitted on Wednesday 3rd June 2020
Rejected on Thursday 11th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make it mandatory for the curriculum to teach the history of other ethnicities.
Stop whitewashing the curriculum and make it mandatory for students to be taught the history of other ethnicities. The curriculum has failed those POC in teaching them their history by focusing on white history instead. It's time to change that.
The current curriculum focuses on the white side of history - not the history of other ethnicities. It's time that we learnt about major figures that were POC - not just Martin Luther King Jr. or Mary Seacole. It's time we learnt about people such as Garrett Morgan, an African American inventor who created a breathing device that the WWI gas masks were based off. People like Carter G. Woodson, known as the 'Father of Black History'. These are the type of people we don't learn about and need to.
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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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