Submitted on Wednesday 5th February 2014
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
proposed changes to school opening times
Recently, Secretary of State of Education, Mr. Gove has proposed significant amendments to school opening hours and term times. In it he appealed to longer hours (9a.m. – 6p.m.) on the basis of Asian nations, however UK culture is grossly dissimilar to those nations.
He also appealed to the current system being a throwback to historical agricultural systems, however the petition believes that if the wheel is not broken, stop trying to fix it.
If the Secretary for Education is to have his way, school children will be forced to work hours in excess of a full time employed person of 37.5 hour week which will be unpaid. This is tantamount to education slavery.
With this in mind I call on people to reject his proposals abandon his current unworkable, unfriendly and excessive proposals.
With this in mind, please sign this petition.
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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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