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Stop recognising 100% Attendance Awards as a means of tackling poor attendance.

Submitted on Thursday 28th September 2017

Rejected on Monday 2nd October 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Stop recognising 100% Attendance Awards as a means of tackling poor attendance.

Petition Details

100% Attendance Awards should be identified as discriminatory and a potential for inciting bullying. National and school attendance strategies should support struggling families but not penalise or demonise sick children. The DofE and Ofsted must identify such awards as not fit for purpose.

Additional Information

100% attendance schemes are detrimental to school life:
• they demonstrate exclusion, not inclusion, by discounting children with disabilities or chronic conditions
• they encourage children to view their peers with disabilities as weak and detrimental to class targets
• they encourage children to go to school sick and spread infections
• they do not foster or recognise important characteristics of determination, persistence or hard work.
• parents are responsible for attendance, not children


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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