Submitted on Thursday 4th June 2020
Rejected on Thursday 11th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make reading about modern & systemic racism a compulsory part of GCSE's
Update the GCSE syllabus to include texts about systematic racism today & more specifically in the UK, as well as further diversifying the list of authors.
In school we are often taught that structural racism ended with the Civil Rights Movement in the US. This serves to bury the UK's role in perpetuating white supremacy and anti-blackness, both then and now. By updating the education system we can actively tackle 'white blindness', shedding light on the covert racism that is perpetuated throughout society, rather than relying on generational change to drift vaguely towards racial equity and a deeper understanding of these issues.
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There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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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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