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Bill: Public Schooling System
Details
Submitted by[?]: Zywiec Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2361
Description[?]:
| Our country currently makes families pay private companies to educate their children, THEN, if the family could afford to put the children through primary and secondary schooling our government FULLY subsidizes their post secondary education. This bill will correct this backwards practice by establishing a public school system once again. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is entirely private and schools run on a for-profit basis.
Current: There is a free public education system and a small number of private schools, which are heavily regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.
Proposed: There is a free public education system and a small number of private schools, which are heavily regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:07:51, February 17, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian Socialists of Endralon | To | Debating the Public Schooling System |
| Message | No private schooling should be permitted. |
| Date | 07:06:44, February 17, 2007 CET | From | League of Objectivists! | To | Debating the Public Schooling System |
| Message | The poor certainly can and do pay for private education if they wish. In U.S. history alone thousands of communities successfully educated all of their children for decades with nothing but private schools and teachers. How was it possible? Because there was no monopoly of education you now know as 'public school'. The government is just like any other company, except with the distinct advantage of being able to take your money at the point of a gun and getting away with it. The problem with convincing people that they're getting 'free' education is the same whenever the government bullies into any market: demand far outblows supply, your quality goes to pot, and you end up with the pathetic bloated catastrophe that is the education system of today's 'advanced' societies. If you really wanted to correct a backwards practice, you would take a look at the laws of reality and stop these government monopolies altogether. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 302 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 280 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 84 |
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