Make Black civil rights history compulsory learning in schools

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

I want the government to implement a deeper education into black history and civil rights history both worldwide and British.

With the situation the world is in currently people are ignorant and not understanding why things are the way they are. To rule out this ignorance we have to start with the education of people about slavery and civil rights history. In my whole 13 years of education I have had 3 lessons on slavery and I have to learn about it myself. To understand today I have know about yesterday and that is the only way tomorrow is going to be any different. Change needs to happen and this is a stepping stone

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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