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Petition · past parliament

Send all pupils home from schools and restart online lessons

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Close all schools again. They're very quickly becoming covid hotpots. Ensure all schools start up online learning. Via Google classrooms, zoom, Google meet and other ideas.
Cases are rising, especially amongst young people. It is very quickly becoming unsafe. Cases are higher now than they were when schools were initially locked down

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Keep schools closed until Covid 19 is no longer a threat

Timeline

16 Sep 2020 Petition opened for signatures
14 Oct 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 14 Oct 2020

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.