Rejected petition Schools across the UK should not set homework for students.

We feel that homework is an additional work load that is unfair and unnecessary for students. Some students have additional support from parents or guardians whilst others do not, rendering homework unjust. There for, Parliament should abolish homework from the Secondary School curriculum.

More details

A study conducted at Stafford University states that 56% of students considered homework to be a primary source of stress, leading to sleep deprivation, less time for being social and less extracurricular activities. From this alone it is clear to me that homework has more downsides than benefits. On that note, having a worse sleep and stressing will majorly impact the level of work students complete in school. It also adds an extra 40-90 minutes on to the average Secondary School students work.

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 the following petition, which calls for similar action:

Ban homework in all schools
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/742337

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

Date submitted 12 October 2025
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.