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Bill: Education Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Secular Humanist party
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: January 2455
Description[?]:
| Standardised testing is a relic of the past. It encourages memorising of pointless figures, charts, tebles, etc. When reference text would be freely available in a real workplace. It is learning in a too sheltered environment, and many students come out with little knoledge of how to apply their skills in a real job. Fartheremore, the length of which students must sstay in education is ludicrous. We believe it is time for a change. |
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:: 21
Current: 18
Proposed: 16
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: invalid choice
Current: There is a National Curriculum which all schools are obliged to follow.
Proposed: invalid choice
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:33:46, September 10, 2007 CET | From | National Soviet Party | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | 18 would be a better year that would allow every student to graduate rather then 16 which would allow them to drop out long before it. |
| Date | 05:13:01, September 11, 2007 CET | From | Secular Humanist party | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | Any age will -allow- any student to graduate. The purpose of lowering the age, is so that those who do not wish, or need to, are not forced to. For example, someone dropping out of school when their music career takes off. It would be silly to make them waste extra years in school learning things they will never use. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 112 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 587 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 51 |
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