Make educating secondary school students on colonial history compulsory

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

Racism has run deep in British society for hundreds of years. Even now, in our "civilised society", racism prevails in all sectors of world. Making education on the empire, specifically the colonial racism, compulsory will show our students that it wasn't just Hitler who committed such attrocities.

Make the education system share the effects of the colonial system had on all aspects of the world. This includes the impact of colonialism that are still visible, to the effect the 20th century colonial wars had on British culture, to the slave trade and the efforts made from both sides of the argument (Britain, other colonising countries and the countries which had been colonies). History is compulsory, use it to show how our new generations our past mistakes and how to learn from them.

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:

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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 12

Status Rejected

Rejected 11 Jun 2020

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