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Bill: M.N.P. - Uniform Education Initiative
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Anti-Communist Front
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: December 2442
Description[?]:
| The Uniform Education Initiative aims to provide a quality standard education for all Malivian children, no matter what their background is. This will insure that all Malivians, upon graduation, will be prepared for full citizenship in Malivia as an adult. Children are our future and it is up to us to ensure that they are ready for it. |
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 and has to happen at school.
Proposed: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: 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.
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: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:14:32, August 14, 2007 CET | From | Malivian National Unity Front | To | Debating the M.N.P. - Uniform Education Initiative |
| Message | Respectfully, The Malivian National Unity Front with utmost respect to our colleagues representing the Malivian National Party must beg for this bill to be carefully examined. The education provided here in Malivia is in dire straits for certain. However, to make such brash and extremely profound measures that will have an enormous impact is something we ought all consider! Article 1: Banning home education is just a bad idea all the way around, period. In general there are two categories of children who go through home educational programs. You've got on one hand the religious lot whom feel their lives have more of a purpose than a brick-n-mortar education. On the flip side you've got thousands if not tens of thousands of children who simply can not go to school for any number of components. They have may have dead-beat parents, they may have to work a job washing dishing or picking crops to survive. . .do you think school is high on their priority list? While a well rounded and educated populace in Malivia is at utmost importance to the future of our status within the world, we must re-examine the role of public education. I could go on a soapbox on this issue however, look to the future for a proposal from the M.N.U.F. setting forth groundbreaking new ideas for the future of the Malivian children. Last but, assuredly not least is Article 2. I'm not sure that I fully understand the benefit of banning private schools. I can't say I'm for or against this without further examination. |
| Date | 22:15:39, August 14, 2007 CET | From | Malivian National Unity Front | To | Debating the M.N.P. - Uniform Education Initiative |
| Message | OOC: I mixed up my article above, swap Article 1 for 2 and 2 for 1 and it'll make a lot more sense. Sorry folks! |
| Date | 22:49:27, August 14, 2007 CET | From | United Malivia | To | Debating the M.N.P. - Uniform Education Initiative |
| Message | "Upon first reading this proposed bill it striked United Malivia as a bit odd. To both ban home-schooling and private schooling is getting rid of one of the highest educations available to Malivians. We agree that home-schooling should be banned, on the basis that public and private schooling is much more benefitial. However, we believe that Private schooling should be allowed for all Malivians, if not forced upon them. Private schools force children to be more organized and it prepares them for the real world, while at the same time getting rid of most of the problems with public schooling, such as the misbehaviour of students. As such, we will have to vote no for this bill. " |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 164 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 231 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 205 |
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