Rejected petition Make politics a required, detailed subject in schools to avoid uneducated votes.

As a young person, more and more of our peers are falling to uneducated ideals. the government need to honour the fact that politics is an extremely important life skill that is too large to be shoved into PSHE once a year carelessly and without detail.

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Make British politics compulsory in the secondary school curriculum
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757061

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Date submitted 18 February 2026
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