To make regular lessons on racism compulsory in primary and secondary schools

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Racism is a learned behaviour. The children of racists are not born racist they are taught to be. Therefore, we should invest more time into educating the younger generation to prevent them thinking racism is an acceptable norm.

If we were to educate the younger generation on the wrongs of racism this would be very beneficial to eradicating racism in the future. Many racist people are simply those that have not been educated on the 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

9 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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