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Open eye campaign: Anti-EYFS petition grows
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
31 January 2008
More than 4,200 parents, childcare experts and educationalists have signed a petition on the Number Ten website to try to stop the Early Years Foundation Stage becoming law in September.
The online petition is now in the top 50 to the Prime Minister on the Downing Street website. The petition, which went online just before Christmas, is part of the Open EYE campaign, launched against what campaigners call the 'schoolification' of early childhood. The petition calls on the Prime Minister 'to commission an urgent independent review of the compulsory EYFS policy framework, and to reduce the status of its learning and development requirements to "professional guidelines".'...
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