Submitted on Monday 14th September 2020
Rejected on Monday 21st September 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Remove poetry from GCSEs
I would like the government and parliament to speak to the department of education about removing poetry as this would benefit gcse students
Students have missed vital time to learn and will not be able to cover all the areas due to the pandemic and this gives students and teachers less time to prepare for this . This would be extremely challenging for them as they have missed 6 months of school and have such less time to prepare for their exams. Removing poetry would reduce the content students have to learn in such less time .
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Ofqual, the qualifications and exams regulator, has been updating its guidance to exam bodies in response to the coronavirus crisis. With regard to the English Literature GCSE, Ofqual has proposed that students should only be assessed on 2 out of 3 possible areas of content: poetry, a 19th century novel, or fiction/drama from the British Isles from 1914: www.tes.com/news/gcse-english-2021-has-poetry-been-dropped.
It will therefore be for individual schools to decide whether poetry is to be taught as part of the English Literature GCSE.
You could start a petition calling for poetry to be permanently removed from the National Curriculum if this is something you would like to happen.
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