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[dr_weir_uk]

God I feel sick. I got an email which I have copied and pasted below. I thought someone may have made it up originally because if it's true it'll be like the country is becoming like Nazi Germany. But the petition seems genuine. I'm making this entry public so people not on my flist can read this shocking news and sign up.

*PLEASE SEND TO AS MANY

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[missyvortexdv]

Well it only says it's not compulsory after 14, makes me wonder if it is before that. I'm know I learnt about WW2 before GCSE as I ended up doing RE for GCSE instead of history or geography. I wouldn't worry too much, I think it's more than likley the vast majority of students will still be taught it anyway through either History or RE - for me it was well covered in both, we barely seemd to do any other historical period and oddly WW1 didn't get much coverage enough though you'd think it would be fairly significant to put the development of the second war into context.

Personally I think it's good they're not making it compulsory for GCSE a) because if it's compulsory for Key Stage 2 (or whatever is the first section of secondary school) then it will still get covered and b) there are many other historical periods that are significant and often get ignored. It's good that there might be more choice for GCSE history topics, might encourage more people to take history GCSE perhaps? If you've already done a topic previously then doing another one/two years on it might not be thrilling if you weren't overtly interested in the topic to want to study it more closely than you've already done.

That said, the wording of the reasoning in the petition does sound suspect as to the changes but then after the student loan one that was quite likely blown out of proportion, there being a petition doesn't make me automatically think the reporting of it via that is credible. I'm a bit wary about believing the petition and not sure what exactly is going on.