Introduce British Colonialism and Racial Inequality to the mandatory curriculum

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

The national schooling curriculum is overwhelmingly lacking information regarding Britain’s role in history - including colonialism, the UK’s role in slavery, the Brixton Riots, the London riots, and the Macpherson Report. We need to educate this countries young people so history is not repeated.

We, as a nation, can not pride ourselves on racial diversity and democracy - whilst simultaneously ignoring the role we played in making the need for rights-fights to exist. We need to do better and we need to educate people, making this part of mandatory schooling is a small step in the right direction.

We can learn from our history and be better in our future, but that won’t happen when we erase what has happened and refuse to educate the younger generations.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums

Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history

Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum

We have also published several petitions about race and equality more widely, which you can view here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&topic=race-and-equality

Timeline

3 Jun 2020	Petition opened for signatures
11 Jun 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 11 Jun 2020

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