Submitted on Monday 28th March 2022
Rejected on Friday 1st April 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Do not raise the target average GCSE grade for Year 11 students to Level 5.
Level 4 is a satisfactory target as the average grade for 16 year olds. An average of Level 5 is an unnecessarily ambitious target.
Young people's mental health is getting worse*. We believe this has been impacted by ever increasing targets and more heavily laden academic curricula. This has squeezed out the arts, life skills, enrichment, sport and any sense of pleasure in learning. Our young people do not thrive simply by raising the height of the hurdles. *https://www.youngminds.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/mental-health-statistics/
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government has not set a target for the Year 11 students to get a Level 5 in their GCSEs. They have set an ambition for secondary schools to see the national average GCSE grade in both English language and maths increase from 4.5 in 2019 to 5 by 2030, and set out a a series of new measures to support the delivery of these ambitions: www.gov.uk/government/news/schools-white-paper-delivers-real-action-to-level-up-education
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