Petition · past parliament
Give parents the choice to send children school or not
Rejected
19 signatures
What the petition asks
Stop punishing parents for wanting to keep there children off school in these worrying times education can be caught up but people can’t be bought back from the dead it’s a massive risk
•To save lives
•Help people’s mental health
•This allows people who need to work still be able to with a very high chance of there being less children in schools so less chance of the virus spreading the schools are trying but it’s not safe enough right now my children are mixing with with over 400 people between the 3 of them I am not comfortable with this
•Help people’s mental health
•This allows people who need to work still be able to with a very high chance of there being less children in schools so less chance of the virus spreading the schools are trying but it’s not safe enough right now my children are mixing with with over 400 people between the 3 of them I am not comfortable with this
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 1 Jan 2021 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 11 Jan 2021 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
19
Status
Rejected
Rejected
11 Jan 2021
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.