Submitted on Monday 20th April 2020
Rejected on Monday 8th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Provide free, completely online accredited courses for year 10 students.
Provide free, completely online accredited courses for year 10 students to study at home and achieve GCSE/level 2 with feedback/marking/certificates as the current facilities are not acceptable and they are the ones most affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The current school system is not acceptable, how would you expect a child to learn if there is no marking, feedback or input? Posting pages sourced from google that contain errors is not sufficient. Expecting a child to complete work when they have no idea if that work is correct is not sufficient. I understand this is difficult for everyone but a standard system for all, which already exists but is not available to school aged children, should be made available. These children are already under an enormous amount of stress due to the changes to the GCSE format and now they feel their future is ruined.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government is responsible for determining whether schools should be allowed to open or be required to close, and for issuing guidance to schools on operating during the coronavirus outbreak.
However, decisions about teaching arrangements during any period of closure is a matter for individual schools, not the Government or House of Commons. Ofsted is responsible for making sure that organisations providing education, training and care services in England do so to a high standard for children and students. Similarly, cecisions about exams are a matter for exam boards, individual schools and Ofqual, and are not a matter for the UK Government or Parliament.
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Work with regulators and exam providers to clarify exam arrangements for 2021: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312570
Require schools to allow children the option to retake their year next year: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/309265
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www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
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