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Petition · past parliament

Allow children to retake year due to Covid-19

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

Agree to allow children to retake year as they have missed at least 6 months of schooling. This is going to impact on our children massively especially those children who don’t have access to technology or whose parents are unable to support their home schooling
Children are going to suffer massively from this lost time in school. We understand the need to close schools to protect the nation but something must be done to support the children more, to support our future generation. We cant let them down.

Why it was rejected

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

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: Allow more school pupils to repeat an academic year due to COVID-19 lockdown.

Timeline

25 Jan 2021 Petition opened for signatures
1 Feb 2021 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11
Status Rejected
Rejected 1 Feb 2021

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