Rejected petition Gavin Williamson must resign or be sacked in light of the A-level grades debacle

The recent series of botched announcements, reactions and utter incompetence over A-level results in England have left thousands of school-leavers in turmoil, panicking about the future.

The U-turn cannot repair the damage to our young people’s mental health, nor to public confidence in exams.

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There can be few people in the UK unaffected by this scandal, personally or by association. Not only does the sequence of events illustrate the incompetence of the government; perhaps more depressingly it betrays a contemptuous lack of care and compassion for individual humans.

Gavin Williamson oversaw the debacle, insisting that the precious algorithm was sacrosanct until this became untenable even in his own party. He must take responsibility, or be forced to do so by the Prime Minister.

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Since you started your petition the Government has announced that GCSE and A-level students will receive their centre assessment grades: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/gcse-and-a-level-students-to-receive-centre-assessment-grades

Prior to this announcement being made, we had published the following petitions:

Reverse all exam grades back to teacher’s own predictions: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/334491

Review the decision to use previous data to calculate exam grades: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306773

Allow free and accessible appeals of GCSE and A Level calculated grades: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/334013

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Date submitted 17 August 2020
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