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Make British Sign Language a compulsory subject in all UK High Schools.

Submitted on Saturday 7th January 2023

Rejected on Friday 13th January 2023

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make British Sign Language a compulsory subject in all UK High Schools.

Petition Details

Our Government must listen to our worries, and our needs. This is why the Conservative Party must ensure that BSL is taught in UK schools, spreading awareness of our deaf community's language. Learning BSL can be a huge step in supporting our deaf community, so it needs to be acted up on.

Additional Information

I'm not the only one who has witnessed the horrible exclusion and mistreatment of our deaf community. Currently, only 151,000 people in the UK use BSL (not necessarily as a main language) and 87,000 of those are deaf. However, there are 10-11 million people in our country who suffer from loss of hearing, really showing that BSL is not taught merely as much as it should be. British Sign Language was recently made an official language, yet it's not taught or respected at all. Do something.


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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.

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You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/620767

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