Rejected petition Make homework optional for students.

Homework will still be compulsory to set still.

"Multiple studies have found that most students are getting too many extra assignments, leading to sleep deprivation, unhealthy levels of stress, as well as related health problems" - Huffpost.

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If you love homework, you won't keep having people ask you for the answers.

"From kindergarten to the final years of high school, recent research suggests that some students are getting excessive amounts of homework.

In turn, when students are pushed to handle a workload that’s out of sync with their development level, it can lead to significant stress"
- Healthline

"The researchers reported that family fights about homework were 200 percent more likely when parents didn’t have a degree."

-Healthline

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Why was this petition rejected?

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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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/239177

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Date submitted 26 January 2019
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