Teach black history in the curriculum including PRE-SLAVE TRADE African history

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

We don’t just want a black history month, we want black history to be incorporated into the curriculum. There’s more to black history than just slavery, we want pre-slavery history to be taught. We want students to be taught about Africa before it was colonised.

We want the Government to do this, as the curriculum is very Eurocentric at the moment despite the U.K. being so multicultural. It would also be a way of combatting racism within the system, as people will become more aware of black history.

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

8 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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