Make it compulsory for pupils to be learn about UK’s role in the slave trade

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

It is only through education we will be able to eradicate racism and the current curriculum has not provided sufficient education to help bring about the social change needed to make all people be treated equally.
Making it just optional will not work, racism persists and requires more from us all

Improve the National Curriculum so that all pupils will be taught about the issues of racism in our history, in sport, how it affects job prospects, in citizenship issues, etc so they can fully understand why Black Lives Matter

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

6 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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