This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Make anti-racism education a stand-alone part of the British school curriculum.
Change starts with our children. To ensure that racism stops with this generation, anti-racism education needs to start at school. No more white washed history, no more glossing over the atrocities of colonialism and empire.
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Books like Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race- Reni Eddo Lodge, Natives- Akala, Don't touch my hair- Emma Dabiri, Me and White Supremacy- Layla Fsaad, and countless others, should be required reading. It's not enough to teach our children to be kind. We have to start teaching them to be actively anti-racist. Research says that children start to form racial biases before they're three. We have to start from school. We need to fix this broken system for our kids.
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Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808
Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961
Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092
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