Rejected petition Cancel GCSEs 2021 for current Year 10s

Current Year 10s miss out on lessons and aren’t able to catch up with the curriculum online. GCSEs in 2021 should also be cancelled, as the pandemic has hindered studying. Letting Year 10s do GCSEs is setting them up for failure and there is no chance for them to catch up to the lesson work.

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Many Year 10s that are completing their GCSEs in 2021 will be disappointed with their results, leading to high rates of depression and could lead crime later on. Cancelling GCSEs and using the students’ last achieved grades is an intelligent and safe option, rather than forcing pupils to complete GCSEs, only to fail.

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 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: https://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
https://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: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://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: https://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: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 26 April 2020
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