UK Parliament home

This petition was submitted during the 2010 to 2015 Parliament

View other petitions from this Parliament

Closed Make British Sign Language compulsory in schools.

Closed on

My Dad is profoundly deaf with no speech and has been all of his life. I find it disgusting how we get taught French, Spanish and German but not British Sign Language. Most people do not know what my dad is saying but if people learnt it in schools then more deaf people would be understood and it wouldn't be intimidating to talk to them as most people think it is.
I wanted to make this petition because deaf people are not treat fairly and hardly anybody knows BSL, it's not like it takes days or hours to learn it takes years and school is the perfect time to do this.
Where is the respect for the deaf?

41 signatures

Show on a map

10,000

Petition progress

View all updates for this petition, with the most recent first.

  • Petition closed

  • Petition published

    This petition can now be signed.

    If this petition gets 10,000 signatures, government will respond to it.

    If this petition gets 100,000 signatures, it will be considered for debate in Parliament.

    This petition will stay open until 30 March 2015.