Rejected petition Allow secondary school children the option to access education online/remotely

When schools closed in March due to COVID-19, many schoolchildren have had positive and negative experiences with online school. To help reduce the spread of COVID-19, giving students the option to access education online would enable more social distancing and a choice for high risk households.

More details

Cases of COVID-19 have surged since the reopening of schools; it is difficult to social distance in such large 'bubbles', and it's been shown that although many children don't experience severe COVID-19 symptoms, there are still significant risks of transmission to adult teaching staff and other family members. Practical measures to deliver education whilst reducing virus transmission rates must be seriously considered. Online school offering would satisfy the objective of maintaining education.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/334065

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

Date submitted 5 November 2020
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.