Submitted on Sunday 15th March 2020
Rejected on Monday 16th March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Coronavirus: Allow parents to choose to keep their children out of school.
As an urgent interim measure, allow parents to choose whether to keep their kids at home. Some families can handle this. Actively promote action.
Additionally, facilitate education at home during this period, through, for example, more educational TV programs and websites.
Reducing social contact will reduce the rate of spread of the virus, so "flattening the curve", reducing the load on the NHS and more - ultimately reducing the number of deaths and related suffering.
But the *forced* closing of schools would put strain on families, impacting incomes, employers and beyond.
So, allow parents to decide and educate at home - some are in a position to do this without significant negative impact. Even if numbers are small, this will slow the spread of the virus.
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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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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300399
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