This petition was submitted during the 2017 to 2019 Parliament
Rejected petition Make a limit on the amount of homework that is allowed to be set.
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The amount of homework set for under 16 year olds is awful, a six and a half hour day is not much however to get home and see you have homework that will take at least 4 hours affects your mental well being and leads to anxiety, it has been proven homework has given little help to students
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/202201
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