Submitted on Wednesday 3rd June 2020
Rejected on Thursday 11th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Introduce British Colonialism and Racial Inequality to the mandatory curriculum
The national schooling curriculum is overwhelmingly lacking information regarding Britain’s role in history - including colonialism, the UK’s role in slavery, the Brixton Riots, the London riots, and the Macpherson Report. We need to educate this countries young people so history is not repeated.
We, as a nation, can not pride ourselves on racial diversity and democracy - whilst simultaneously ignoring the role we played in making the need for rights-fights to exist. We need to do better and we need to educate people, making this part of mandatory schooling is a small step in the right direction.
We can learn from our history and be better in our future, but that won’t happen when we erase what has happened and refuse to educate the younger generations.
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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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