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Bill: Educational Liberty Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Industrialist Party of Aloria
Status[?]: defeated
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: May 2424
Description[?]:
| This is a law that will allow people to decide if they want to be educated or not. There will still be public education out there for those who want it, but it is an atrocity akin to slavery to force children into an education when you can learn yourself and be taught to read and write by your parents (whom have been forced into education for years). |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Current: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Proposed: Education is entirely voluntary.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:19:50, July 04, 2007 CET | From |  Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Educational Liberty Act |
| Message | We oppose. |
| Date | 01:14:31, July 04, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Educational Liberty Act |
| Message | Why? This goes against libertarian (even moderate libertarian) doctrine. |
| Date | 01:31:04, July 04, 2007 CET | From | Party Royale | To | Debating the Educational Liberty Act |
| Message | Strongly oppose |
| Date | 05:21:47, July 04, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Educational Liberty Act |
| Message | Could you... Back up your opinion? Anybody? You say you oppose, but you tell not why. |
| Date | 07:35:28, July 04, 2007 CET | From | Party Royale | To | Debating the Educational Liberty Act |
| Message | Education is necessary to develop children into productive citizens. It may benefit them or their parents in the short run if they leave school at an early age to work at a minimum wage job, but in the long run, it will only hurt them and hurt our nation's economy. |
| Date | 14:26:31, July 04, 2007 CET | From | Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the Educational Liberty Act |
| Message | We also oppose on the basis that children need this education and penny-pinching parents should not deprive them of it. Children as young as 5 cannot defend their own rights so the Government must help them. |
| Date | 21:42:53, July 04, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Educational Liberty Act |
| Message | But it is also wrong to force them to have it. You are on the other extreme. Any how if people want to have an education or don't want to it should be their or their parent's choice, not the government's. Forced education only suppresses a young mind and it's curiosity, but if you would let the child lead their own education and be driven by their own curiosity then it would not be a bad thing.The fact is forced education makes factory workers and desk jockeys, the kind of "drones" that a fascist government likes because they don't do anything to stop them, because they have been taught to obey authority, not question it. Forced education doesn't encourage people to fight for their rights, it encourages the opposite, to sit by and be told what to do. The CP is accusing all of you of adhering to fascist doctrine directly opposite of what a free democratic society should have. You are all opposed to free thinking. |
| Date | 00:29:00, July 05, 2007 CET | From | Radical Progressive Front | To | Debating the Educational Liberty Act |
| Message | Radical Progressive Front strongly opposes this motion. Knowledge is Freedom, but knowledge can only be gained by rigorous training programmes, not by those free-wheeling hippy style education! If education is left to parents, especially the lower classes will suffer. Are these children to blame that their parents are to dumb to teach them anything! |
| Date | 21:49:27, July 05, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Educational Liberty Act |
| Message | Rigorous "training" only suppresses curiosity and dumbs people down. Besides we will STILL HAVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, but children shouldn't have to go if they do not want to. Force feeding suppresses curiosity and makes people accept authority. This is bad for the people, but it's good for fascists who want uneducated drones for a population. You've all been brainwashed into thinking it's good to force feed information and suppress natural curiosity or you know full and well the consequences and you are using them to have a small educated minority ruling and a large majority in the dark. I hope you are all the first; because, if not you are all pure evil. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 600 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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