Reform History in Primary & Secondary Education to include more BAME subjects

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

We, the undersigned, call on the Department for Education to reform History in Primary and Secondary Schools to include more BAME subjects.

As a qualified teacher, I am calling on the Department for Education to introduce more Black, Asian and Minority History subjects to primary and secondary schools.

I hope this will allow us as a society to address the inequality and systemic racism that disproportionately affects the BAME community.

For this to work, the Department for Education need to work with BAME community and teachers alike to formulate resources and key areas within the subject.

Why it was rejected

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

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

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

5 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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