This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Make poetry non compulsory for this year's GCSEs.
It became optional to remove poetry from the English GCSEs this year because of the time lost because of the pandemic. It has now became compulsory which means we have to drop a play that we have already studied which means we have lost time.
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We have lost time and it has given students from other schools an advantage if they have already studied the poems. It has also increased the amount of stress and it had made students more anxious for their English exams.
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