Review the National Curriculum and include black history and British Empire.

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

Essentially, create effective changes to the national curriculum, making it statutory to learn particular topics (E.g. British history). As part of the review, schools should conduct an audit of training of all staff provided by the government. Schools should be obliged to teach such topics.

Changing the curriculum can close the huge gap in education, it will give children a clear understanding of the country we live in. Racism and the history of Britain is a vital topic that every person has the right to know. By teaching racism where racism is rooted, effectively makes it easier to recognise and to tackle, by the government in order to prevent it.The department of education should implement this throughout our key stages of education.

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

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

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 11 Jun 2020

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