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Bill: Emphasizing Secular Education
Details
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: March 2096
Description[?]:
| At present, Lodamunian law regulates private schools, but religious schools are a notable exception, being totally unregulated. This bill proposes to moderately regulate religious schools, and ensure that their syllabus is up to basic standards, they do not teach scripture in favour of scientific theory, and do not incite students. This bill also states that teacher led prayers have no place in public, secular schools, recognizing that some students outside the majority may feel uncomfortable or offended to be compelled to pray. Students may still pray on their own, and teachers in religious schools may still lead prayer. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Any religion may set up a school, with no regulations.
Current: Only recognised religions may set up religious schools, with no regulations.
Proposed: Religious schools are allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Current: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:44:00, August 12, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Emphasizing Secular Education |
| Message | Keep the propoganda out of the schools. That you do not wish to have religious schools does not mean that there are not many parents who will pay to send their child to a religios school thus reducing the tax burden on the nation. State funded schools should be non religious, but private schools can be whatever they wish to be, within the regulations that already exist. This is persecution of religious groups, and once more an example of the discriminatory nature of the left. |
| Date | 20:47:33, August 12, 2005 CET | From | Royal Conservative Party | To | Debating the Emphasizing Secular Education |
| Message | I agree with Article One but I disagree with Article Two. |
| Date | 17:55:20, August 14, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Emphasizing Secular Education |
| Message | Meh. |
| Date | 18:56:29, August 15, 2005 CET | From | Royal Conservative Party | To | Debating the Emphasizing Secular Education |
| Message | Meh...does that noise indicate you are an idiot or does it indicate that your mouth is too full of drool to articulate proper words? |
| Date | 22:33:01, August 15, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Emphasizing Secular Education |
| Message | Actually, 'meh' is not the easiest word to articulate, so I'm going to say that indicates that I am an idiot. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 234 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 144 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 72 |
| Random fact: The majority of nations in Particracy are "Culturally Protected" with an established cultural background. Only the "Culturally Open" nations are not bound by the rules surrounding culture. The Cultural Protocols Index should be consulted for more information about the cultural situation of each nation. |
| Random quote: "I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business." - Richard M. Nixon |