{"id":1337,"date":"2013-05-31T22:53:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T22:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2013-05-31T22:53:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T22:53:47","slug":"sign-my-e-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/05\/sign-my-e-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign my e petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers, hauliers and even nursery workers now need to have gcse maths, but not appatently, government ministers, the chancellor or prime minister, who are in charge of all our money. I created an e petition to ask that all ministers be made to take gcse maths or equivalent, and if they fail, that they be dismissed.<br \/>\nI am waiting for a link from the government.<\/p>\n<p>And here it is:<\/p>\n<p> Dear Paul Smith,<\/p>\n<p>Your e-petition &#8220;ministers to take maths tests&#8221; hasn&#8217;t been accepted.<\/p>\n<p>E-petitions cannot be used to request action on issues that are outside the responsibility of the government. This includes:<\/p>\n<p>party political material commercial endorsements including the promotion of any product, service or publication issues that are dealt with by devolved bodies, eg The Scottish Parliament correspondence on personal issues<\/p>\n<p>E-petitions cannot be used for freedom of information requests.<\/p>\n<p>View your rejected e-petition<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to submit a new e-petition, please read the site&#8217;s terms and conditions which explain the rules in detail.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>HM Government e-petitions http:\/\/epetitions.direct.gov.uk\/<\/p>\n<p>This probably had nothing to do with the possibility that they would all fail their maths exam and have to resign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers, hauliers and even nursery workers now need to have gcse maths, but not appatently, government ministers, the chancellor or prime minister, who are in charge of all our money. I created an e petition to ask that all ministers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/05\/sign-my-e-petition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-lz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1849,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/05\/please-make-formulae-consisten-on-gcse-maths-exam-papers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1337,"position":0},"title":"Please make formulae consistent on GCSE maths exam papers","author":"taxicle","date":"May 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"to aqa I sent an email ie please use the formula Area=1\/2ab sin C to mean you can label the triangle in the same way as for the cosine rule a^2 =b^2 +c^2 -2bc con A. 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