Submitted on Tuesday 26th May 2020
Rejected on Thursday 28th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Cancel GCSEs and A Levels in 2021
Many students are suffering educationally due to COVID-19 and will not do as well as they could in their GCSE and A Level exams compared to if this crisis didn't happen. This unprecedented crisis requires unprecedented steps and solutions.
Many students are suffering educationally due to COVID-19 and will not do as well as they could in their GCSE and A Level exams compared to if this crisis didn't happen. This unprecedented crisis requires unprecedented steps and solutions.
The best thing to do in this situation is to cancel exams in 2021 and to allow teachers to predict their student's grades. This would allow teachers to take into account pupils' previous progress before they had to start working from home, and would be fairer.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
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
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
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/
18.218.196.182 Tue, 07 May 2024 02:13:51 +0100
