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Prioritise Years 10 and 12 when re-opening schools after the COVID-19 Lockdown

Submitted by Marie Ketting on Tuesday 12th May 2020

Published on Thursday 28th May 2020

Current status: Closed

Closed: Saturday 28th November 2020

Signatures: 56

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A-levels ~ Boris ~ Boris Johnson ~ Children ~ Covid ~ Covid-19 ~ Education ~ GCSE ~ Johnson ~ learning ~ Lockdown ~ Lost ~ Next year ~ Reception ~ Schools ~ Time ~ UK ~ Year 1

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Prioritise Years 10 and 12 when re-opening schools after the COVID-19 Lockdown

Petition Details

As of 12/05/20, the UK government's roadmap for slowly easing lockdown mentions very little about students facing exams next year. The current plan is to open schools for younger children first, which I don't believe is fair on secondary school students, especially those with vital exams near.

Additional Information

Not only are these reception and Year 1 children less likely to be able to observe social distancing, but have more time to compensate for lost time in schools. Children sitting their GCSEs and A-Levels next year don't have this extra time to compensate for online learning, which isn't as effective as in-person lessons. Boris Johnson expressed a clear desire in his speech on 10/05/20 to get all primary students back at school by summer but was incredibly vague regarding secondary education.


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