Rejected petition Make it mandatory that Black History is taught in all schools across the UK

Rejected on 16 June 2020

Black History is not covered how it should be. We need a community where everyone is respected, understood and appreciated is by using education as a tool. If this is not done, police brutality and acts of racism will continue to affect the lives of those in our community.

Education covers so much and incorporates skills which we carry with us for a lifetime. Let's be the change that we need and unify. Let's make the teaching of Black History mandatory across the UK.

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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

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

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

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.