This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Change the schools acedemic year start time to January
The proposal is to run school January to December (not September to August). So children will be a minimum of 4 years and 4 months went starting school
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With the school closing down for a prolonged period of time lets encourage the government to over hall the school system not just put a band aid on for this years cohort.
This change will mean all children will be a minimum of 4 years and 4 months went starting school and exams will not be in the hot Summer term
This is an opportunity like no other
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
Decisions about school term dates are a matter for the governing bodies of individual schools, not the Government or Parliament. You could start a petition calling on the Government to change the age at which local authorities are required to provide a school place for a child, but this would not necessarily mean that schools changed their term dates.
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