Interesting petitions

In a break from everything else that has kept me from blogging much lately, including campaigning in the Ealing Southall by-election, here are some interesting petitions on the 10 Downing Street website. All, for now, are from the Education and skills section.

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to...

• ...reintroduce spelling, grammar and punctuation lessons and tests in all schools.
  
  
• ...start teaching children that responsibility is as important as rights.
  
  
• ...encourage schools to celebrate christian days exclusively, as we do with other religions.
  
  
• ...make religious education in all schools compulsory.
  
  
• ...prevent holiday companies charging more for holidays in school holiday time.
  
  
• ...halt plans by the OCR to abolish the Ancient History A-level.
  
  
• ...insist that Universities provide a penny-for-penny breakdown of where the ridiculous fees students have to pay actually go.
  
  
• ...reduce prejudice against students.
  
  
• ...stop essay writing services for students.

And now back to the by-election.