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Introduce Black British History + British Imperialism into the education system

Submitted on Sunday 7th June 2020

Rejected on Thursday 11th June 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Introduce Black British History + British Imperialism into the education system

Petition Details

In both primary and secondary school education there is a lack of teaching in regards to Britains history with racism. The government/parliament would introduce Black British history and British Imperialism to the secondary curriculum and get teachers to start discussing racism at primary school.

Additional Information

It has come to our attention that in the UK we know so much about black history in the USA but know very little about our own. It is important that our youth are educated about these matters or else we face the erasure of history. We are a multicultural country yet we hardly know why that is anymore. It's time for us to face our history so we can understand systematic racism and learn how to undo it.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

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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