Submitted on Wednesday 3rd June 2020
Rejected on Thursday 11th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
CHANGE THE EUROCENTRIC CURRICULUM - TEACH BLACK HISTORY
Change the curriculum to include prominent black figures in history, praise all races from an early age, teach literature from written by black authors, educate on black led movements & successes, teach black students where they came from, & show white students what they’ve gained from BAME efforts.
It is incredibly damaging for black youth to grow up thinking they are the underclass, which is reinforced when the most black history they are taught is slavery & MLK, which hardly scrapes the surface of all the positive influences/events in black history. Furthermore, it reinforces the institutional racism throughout society if white students are brought up in an environment which devalues black people, & ignores their existence. Black students need to feel liberated & this is the way forward.
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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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