Submitted on Wednesday 30th March 2022
Rejected on Tuesday 5th April 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Ban exam questions that assume there are only two genders.
Often on maths exams, there are questions of the form “In a class of 30 students, 14 students are male. How many are female?” These questions are based on the assumption that all people are either make or female. National exam boards should not be permitted to include questions of this form.
As well as being old fashioned, it excludes trans-students, gender fluid students and reduces the voice of all students. The questions can be rephrased for things that are binary, such as simply writing “how many are not male”.
In the past, consciously including ethnically diverse names and a mix of traditionally male and female names has successfully led to a more inclusive set of questions and the time is right to do this again.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.
Decisions about exam questions are a matter for individual exam boards, not the UK Government or Parliament.
Exam boards are overseen by Ofqual, the regulator of qualifications, examinations and assessments in England, and you can find out how to complain about an exam board here: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofqual/about/complaints-procedure
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