Submitted on Saturday 6th June 2020
Rejected on Thursday 11th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Update the national curriculum to teach children about our colonial history.
We would like the national curriculum updated to teach children about Britain’s colonial past. We believe this part of the curriculum should be driven primarily by BAME educators to ensure that children are exposed to a wide range of perspectives which they would not otherwise encounter.
Britain's colonial past has shaped the world we live in today yet many Brits grow up unaware of their country’s colonial past. We want to see the national curriculum revised to include: the transatlantic slave trade, Britain's role in colonising the world and creating national borders and the role of people from commonwealth nations in building Britain back up after WWII.
This history forms the backdrop of the many racial inequalities that are present today.
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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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