Submitted on Saturday 8th August 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 19th August 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: honours (see below for details)
Force the Education Secretary to resign over the handling of exam results
Either the government should sack the Education Secretary, or Parliament should impeach him due to the monumental failure to protect working class students from class-biased exam results during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Education Secretary must resign because the exam results for this year has severely and unfairly put poorer GCSE and A Level students at a disadvantage because a school’s performance is taken into account for working out individual exam results. There is no individual appeals process, which is shambolic. This also shows contempt for the professional judgement of teachers who are outstanding public sector workers who have world-class training to assess such things.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can't publish petitions about honours or appointments. That includes calling for Ministers to be sacked or to resign.
Additionally, since you started your petition the Government has announced that students in England will receive teacher assessed grades for GCSE and A level results this summer: www.gov.uk/government/news/gcse-and-a-level-students-to-receive-centre-assessment-grades
We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:
Review the decision to use previous data to calculate exam grades: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306773
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