Submitted on Monday 15th June 2020
Rejected on Thursday 18th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make Black History mandatory learning in schools.
Add black history to school's curriculum. Add books by black authors about race to required reading lists. Educate students on not just the statistics of slavery, but the social repercussions that entailed. Make sure students understand white privilege and how it affects white and black people.
Ignorance births racism. Our country has a long and cruel history of treating black people as less than, and we owe it to our black friends, family and colleagues to educate ourselves and each other so that racial ignorance can end. We have mistreated black people for too long, and educating our young people on race history, white privilege and race today is a great stride to take in fighting racism in the UK.
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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:
Reform the National Curriculum on the basis of equality and BAME representation: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324690
Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961
Make black history a compulsory part of the national curriculum for all ages: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323654
Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092
Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808S
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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