Submitted on Thursday 4th June 2020
Rejected on Thursday 11th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Teach Black British history and Britain's colonial history in schools
For Parliament to include Black British History, Britian's history of colonialism and slavery in the national curriculum and for this to be mandatory. Black British history is British history and involves more than human suffering with untold contributions in art, literature, politics and many more.
Education is one of the basic needs for human development and a cornerstone element in society. This denial of accurate and cruical history in schools is harmful as it actively enables biases and ignorance to develop which later on manifests itself in countless permanent racial issues. History education, as the Department of Education has said is meant to help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and currently it is failing to do so.
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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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