Make Black British History Compulsory in Schools

Rejected 15 signatures

What the petition asks

This petition is to call for British Black History to be made mandatory throughout schools in the UK. Despite the role Britain had in colonialising black counties and the growing population of people of colour and mixed children continues, it is a shock that it is not part of our education system.

The history of black people have been erased in our country and it is not right, people in our country are not being taught about the racism that occurred here, e.g. the murder of Stephen Lawrence, and that is still occurring here making people believe that the UK is exempt to racism when that is not the case. By teaching our children, it will bring awareness to the oppression, discrimination and lack of protection that these community face in their day to day life and we can stop that.

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

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

Key facts

Signatures 15

Status Rejected

Rejected 11 Jun 2020

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