Remove streams from education, it's detrimental to most children's education.

Rejected 19 signatures

What the petition asks

It's been proven through various studies that streaming children creates a self fulfilling prophecy that is detrimental to the majority of children's' education. The label influences how children respond to school, and as such affects how they perform throughout. As such, labels should be removed.

The majority of children do not fall into the top stream in their schools. This causes teachers to treat them as less able, causing the children to feel less abled, and perform less than they might if labelled differently. In 1968 a study (Rosenthal & Jacobson) showed that students picked at random, if told they're more able, over half of previous underachievers improved academically within a year. For the sake of equality of opportunity, let's abolish these labels and support all kids equally.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

Streaming is a decision for individual schools to take, not the UK Government or Parliament.

If you'd like schools in England to be banned from using streams in education, you could start a new petition asking for that.

Timeline

18 Dec 2017	Petition opened for signatures
21 Dec 2017	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 19

Status Rejected

Rejected 21 Dec 2017

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