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Rejected petition Include more ethnic minority figures in all schools curriculums.
The current school curriculum is flooded by white British figures who are outdated and overused. We need more ethnic minority Sociologists, writers, artists etc.
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This ethnocentric curriculum alienates ethnic minority children and makes them grow up to believe that they don’t matter to the country that they live in and people who look like them can’t/don’t enter those career paths. That’s why primary schools and secondary schools of all types should change the curriculum.
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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
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
Introduce Gender and Race equity for GCSE English Literature set texts: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324934
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