Submitted on Wednesday 29th April 2020
Rejected on Thursday 28th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Either cancel or address the issues with the current y12 A level exams next year
Work with students and teachers to evaluate a course of action for A level exams next year and either: cancel the exams, delay them or have teachers submit personalised statements that will affect grades, factoring in how we've mentally coped with Covid-19 and effort in lessons and class work.
This crisis has exasperated existing socio-economic inequalities for many sixth form students. For those of us with pre-existing mental heath problems this pandemic has, for one reason or another, accentuated the struggles we've already been dealing with. We've lost a significant amount of term time, and there are clear discrepancies in the level of education different colleges are able to provide to their students. It would be nothing short of immoral to make us sit our exams like usual.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Decisions about exams are a matter for exam boards and individual schools, and are not a matter for the UK Government or Parliament.
We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:
Work with regulators and exam providers to clarify exam arrangements for 2021: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312570
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