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Bill: School Enchacement Program [2]
Details
Submitted by[?]: Supreme Party of the Republic
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: December 2442
Description[?]:
| This bill proposes to raise the age until which students are required to be educated. Having in mind the future of our children, the NUP proposes to raise the age until children are to be educated to 18. That bill, if approved, will give us more educated young adults and more able to get into a university. This will also make the population of the Free Republic of Dorvik more likely to develop a political mind. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The age until which students, if education were to be compulsary, are required to be educated (limited between 16 and 21).
Old value:: 16
Current: 18
Proposed: 18
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:15:38, August 15, 2007 CET | From |  Moderate Party of The Free Republic | To | Debating the School Enchacement Program [2] |
| Message | I feel that to progress students then the people who are: a) unsuitable to continue a further two years or b) Do not want a job requiring further education should not be forced to serve extra time when it is not necessary |
| Date | 17:23:21, August 15, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Labour and Unionist Party | To | Debating the School Enchacement Program [2] |
| Message | The DLUP will support this measure for now, as it will encourage students who are not interested in college to learn a trade in a school ran vocational program. So that when the leave they can get a good job and contribute more to society. OOC: and are more likely to join a union. ; ) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 79 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 67 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 253 |
| Random fact: "Kubrk" is a Jelbic word that has the colloquial meaning "old man" or "geezer". |
| Random quote: "Religion, like capitalism, will perish in the end. We estimate the complete Terra-wide extinction of Hosianism as a religious belief by the year 4409, and in Dorvik by 4398." - Friedrich Pfeiffer, former Dorvish politician |