Submitted on Wednesday 10th June 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 16th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Review the National Curriculum to include a greater teaching of UK Imperialism
The National Curriculum as it stands inadequately teaches the involvement of the UK in the slave trade, and the vagarities of colonialism. These should be taught in a way which does not always present the UK as the 'hero' of the story, in order to address the systemic racism this forms.
The recent dethroning of Edward Colston's statue has made a large amount of people more about the UK slave trade than their schooling. The same applies to other historical figures and their involvement with the slave trade, colonialism, and the interaction between Britain, colonies, and native populations.
In addressing this, future generations will have an accurate understanding of our past, and help tackle exceptionalism and racism in the future.
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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.
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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
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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