Teach Black History in Schools · petition

What the petition asks

I know about your white history, your kings and your queens what about our kings or queens, you went to Jamaica but what happened in
Jamaica, why is black people in the UK and how did we get here?

Racism has been pushed under the carpet for far too long, over the years an incident will happened that gets a mention then it gets brush aside, its time to start educating yourselves and the future generations and our black history we exist we are a part of society we don't want to take over this country we want to be treated equally, it has been 400 hundred years of tears enough is enough, this country's was built from slavery, your consciouns should tell you to do the right thing?

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Reform the National Curriculum on the basis of equality and BAME representation: Reform the National Curriculum on the basis of equality and BAME representation

Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history

Make black history a compulsory part of the national curriculum for all ages: Make black history a compulsory part of the national curriculum for all ages

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

Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums

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

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