The online petition is now in the top 50 to the Prime Minister on theDowning Street website.
The petition, which went online just before Christmas, is part of theOpen EYE campaign, launched against what campaigners call the'schoolification' of early childhood.
The petition calls on the Prime Minister 'to commission an urgentindependent review of the compulsory EYFS policy framework, and toreduce the status of its learning and development requirements to"professional guidelines".'
Open EYE's supporters include Sue Palmer, educational consultant andauthor of Toxic Childhood, early years expert Margaret Edgington,psychologists Dr Dorothy Rowe and Dr Penelope Leach, and children'sauthor Philip Pullman (News, 5 December 2007).
The Open EYE steering group met with the education select committeechairman Barry Shearman MP last week.
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