PE01813: Reform the national curriculum to include all African Scottish history

The source of much of the UK and Scotland's wealth arose directly from our involvement in the Slave Trade. We must learn from this. Today there is as much slavery as ever. Still, the financial system is not working at any level. The global Culture, squeazing the Markets for profits by cut throat competition are in Trillions of dollars of debt, the US corporations alone holding $15 Trillion debts in June 2019, pre covide 19. Shares in these indebted companies continued to be bought and sold resulting from regulators enabling companies to insure all problems, but not away. People & the Environment are sick. Global insurnace backing has enabled Hedge Fund Managers to use our Pension funds to buy and sell these lifeless trades creating large commissions, calling this a "flourishing Financial Service Industry". Sucess is short lived, for the success of the debt creating banking economic Model is based upon cutting down margines till we have global slavery, pollution, wars, poverty and economic melt down. The cruelties of this economic model has escalated around the globe and their backers: namely, the global Insurance market, and the Financing Pensions markets are both in Sub-prime debt, this well pre Covid-19, More of the same model would deliver a Kleptocratic totalitarian regeme. But Ahead: we have extra ordinary possibilities arising from the innovations of AI, 3D Printing, robots, near free energy of Plasma and Hydrogen, Microbes, Algaes & fungi, Water Memory, Electro-magnetic fields to name a few, and a landscape to match. A Massive Green Re-generation is the only way foreward. Conflcts of Interest must cease and impartial guiding minds need to ask correct questons, obtain help from Quantum Computers as to the best models and methods of both finance and how to inclusively implement such collective endeavours for our new 'eon'.

Caroline Kenneil

19:30 on 24 Jul 2020

It is a no brainer. I think we can only truly say we are teaching history if it is 'complete'. How? By including Afro-Scottish history

Theo OGBHEMHE

20:14 on 20 Jul 2020

Was informed and inspired at an event hosted by Highland One World Centre featuring a presentation about Scotland's Black History. As a Scottish teacher who happens to be white I felt embarrassed being in my 40s and not knowing our nation's black history. I am now aware that there are some amazing resources out there BUT our children need more than a month a year #BlackHistoryMonth

Vicki Renton

19:19 on 20 Jul 2020

Scotland, as part of the UK, is steeped in the trading past of the colonial British Empire and all that went along with that good as well as bad. This needs to be taught to our increasingly more diverse school going population, so they understand where they and we all came from and what has shaped us, in order to shape them, positively, in the future.

Barney Green

12:18 on 15 Jul 2020

History, when told truthfully, can transform the future

Shauna MacAninch

21:16 on 14 Jul 2020

Education in the best interest of all

Jean-Claude

9:11 on 14 Jul 2020

We need honest history

Anne Docherty

19:32 on 13 Jul 2020

I think inclusion of Afro-Scottish history, as described in this petition, as part of the Scottish national curriculum would be extremely beneficial for Scottish students. It would allow for Black Scottish young people to feel more included in the history of their country and it could help to reduce racism and anti-immigrant sentiments amongst white Scottish students. I left high school in 2015 and had studied history at Standard Grade level, but I do not remember being taught about any of the topics mentioned in this petition. I think including these topics would allow students to learn a more well-rounded and inclusive version of our history. Regarding colonial history, I think this definitely should be taught to students in S1 to S4, as I sadly did not have any real understanding of colonialism, and the lasting effects of it, until I went to university. By excluding this from the history curriculum for younger students while simultaneously maintaining a major focus on WW1 and WW2, students learn a bias account of our history where only the better moments are recounted.

Megan Lindsay

16:24 on 13 Jul 2020

This is long overdue. A real look at history that includes the views of those citizens from BAME in how the curriculum should be drawn up, what it should include. I don't know I am white and ignorant. My knowledge is constantly unfolding before my appalled eyes.

Valentine scarlett

14:47 on 13 Jul 2020

As well as the admiral and glorious aspects of our colonial past, history teaching should take account of the less admirable and less glorious.

James Brown

13:39 on 13 Jul 2020