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Bill: Standardised Testing and Tuition Act 2433
Details
Submitted by[?]: Christian Democratic Alternative
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: November 2433
Description[?]:
| The CDA is not satisfied with the current system of testing a student's knowledge. We think this is due to the ambigious requirement that 'student creativity' should be placed above standardised results. CDA deputies, along with a substantial group of university professors, don't have the faintest idea of what good 'student creativity' is, because it isn't standardised. What one teacher may consider creative, may be considered irrelevant by another. We think that student creativity should be replaced by standardised tests, so that teachers will have good guidelines to correct student's work. Student have the right to know with what method their work is being corrected. They don't get that security if the answer to the question: "Why do I have a C minus?" is "I didn't think your work was creative enough". The CDA prefers the answer to be: "You made some mistakes while answering the following questions, let's see what we can do to prevent them". The CDA also thinks that wealthy students should pay their own tuition. Taxpayers' money can better be spent on true disadvantaged people. The state should promote self-sufficiency, not laziness". - Alicia Anderson, CDA shadow minister for Education and Culture. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Current: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Proposed: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: invalid choice
Current: There is a National Curriculum which is advisory only and is not binding on any schools.
Proposed: invalid choice
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:15:46, July 24, 2007 CET | From |  Revolutionary Socialist Party | To | Debating the Standardised Testing and Tuition Act 2433 |
| Message | 1st-maybe ... 2nd- NO ! |
| Date | 09:56:39, July 24, 2007 CET | From | "Le Chaim" - Aesthetic Party | To | Debating the Standardised Testing and Tuition Act 2433 |
| Message | Again, a question of principle. Is the state fully responsible for education, for knowledge and culture? Or in general terms, shall the state have a cultural aspect or just a legal one, should the state be simply the empty frame of legal chains controlling egoistic impulses, or should it be more, a bearer of culture and a bearer of safety and guarantee. Either the state completely offers and assures (so to say: bears) culture and also education or it does not at all. So much concerning proposal nr 1. And never, and I mean never underestimate creativity. Creativity is constitutive for human being and therefore also constitutive for a culture bearing state... Ben Friedensreich, "Le Chaim" - Aesthetic Party chief idologist |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 105 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 145 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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