This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Keep to Kill A Mockingbird and other classics on the English literature curriculum
More details
It is reported today (25.5.14) that the John Steinbeck novella Of Mice and Men, and other American classics including Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible and the Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird, have been dropped from new English literature GCSEs after Michael Gove, the education secretary, insisted teenagers had to study works by British writers. (Source - The Sunday Times)
This is a disgrace.
I call for the Education Secretary to keep these internationally recognised classics on the curriculum.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.