Submitted on Friday 12th March 2021
Rejected on Monday 22nd March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Introduce Mandatory Self-defence Classes in UK Secondary Schools
Following the eye-opening statistic that 97% of young women in the UK have been sexually harassed, it is imperative that individuals have a means to protect themselves.
Making self-defence mandatory within schools will mean that all young people will have greater knowledge on how to stay safe.
Self-defence classes are both expensive and time consuming, meaning that not everyone has access to the resource of learning to protect themselves.
To tackle this inequality in wealth and resource, the government should introduce legislation which makes self-defence compulsory in the curriculum - be it within P.E lessons or otherwise.
It is the government's responsibility to keep citizens safe and starting in schools would be the best course of action to help reduce the reported 97% figure.
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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:
Mandatory self-defence classes as part of school curriculum: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/578987
Fund free self-defence classes for women in the UK: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/578919
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