Force private and public faith schools to teach kids evidence based science.

Rejected 20 signatures

What the petition asks

Many private and govt. funded faith schools benefit from all the perks of actual schools, but are allowed to teach kids based on loose curriculums geared more towards religious indoctrination than towards actual education. Many of them skip evolutionary biology and teach creation myths as fact.

Luckily in the UK, education is mandatory, but everyone should be able to benefit from a complete education as a universal right and not be subject to indoctrination and falsehoods.
A Richard Dawkins documentary on channel 4 that aired in August of 2010 is on this topic and clearly shows children in islamic faith schools not being taught evolution at all correctly and instead learning most science directly from the Quran. Their science teacher, herself, does not even have a good grasp on it.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

State funded faith schools are not allowed to teach creationism as part of science. You can find out more on the UK Government website:

https://www.gov.uk/types-of-school/faith-schools

You could start a new petition asking for changes to be made to the Independent School Standards.

Timeline

28 Jan 2017	Petition opened for signatures
31 Mar 2017	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 20

Status Rejected

Rejected 31 Mar 2017

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