Rejected petition Secondary school students should be able to take laptops instead of books.

Instead of taking books, students should be able to take laptops to stop the spread of Coronavirus. A laptop can be disinfected as a pose to a book. Work can be sent to teachers by email

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There should be a rule enforcing that students should have the choice to take laptops instead of books.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

You want students to be able to use laptops instead of books, however you don't specify what you want these laptops to be used for nor what kinds of books the laptops would replace. Government advice on re-opening schools specifies that, while taking books home is allowed, "unnecessary sharing should be avoided". To achieve this, individual schools already have the right to allow the use of laptops in their schools should they wish.

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 find 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 1 September 2020
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