A teenage girl undergoing cancer treatment has been told she must sit her GCSE exams, otherwise she will not be awarded a grade.
Grace Sanderson, from Northallerton, North Yorkshire, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia on 11 March. She is about to undergo her third round of chemotherapy and have a lumbar puncture to test for cancer cells in her spinal cord, while also sitting her GCSE exams.
But despite her medical condition, the 16-year-old has been told she cannot receive teacher assessed grades for her GCSEs, which were awarded during the pandemic, and will not receive any grades unless she sits the exams.
Her mother, Emma Sanderson, has now launched a petition calling for individual circumstances to be taken into account and teacher assessed grades to be awarded when a student is critically ill.
