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Bill: Civilised Schools Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Socialist Party
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: October 2457
Description[?]:
| Many parts of our school system are unfit for a modern civilised society. For too long local governments have been allowed to permit violence to children, nationalistic indoctrination and deny students sexual education. We need to change this and pull our schools out of the middle ages. Naomi Leroux PSP speaker on education and culture |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are not made to sing the national anthem, but are required to show respect when it is played at the commencement of school each day.
Current: Children are only made to sing the national anthem on special occasions.
Proposed: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sexual education in schools.
Old value:: This decision is up to the schools themselves without government regulation.
Current: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty, but individual students have an opt-out option.
Proposed: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The teacher's right to discipline children.
Old value:: Discipline levels are set by local governments.
Current: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Proposed: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:00:02, September 17, 2007 CET | From |  United Democrats of Jakania | To | Debating the Civilised Schools Act |
| Message | I don't really care about article one, to be honest, but, I'm a huge patriot, so article two is unacceptable...but I support article 3. I can't decide how to vote |
| Date | 23:11:51, September 17, 2007 CET | From | Progressive Socialist Party | To | Debating the Civilised Schools Act |
| Message | Respect is something that can't be forced - it can only be earned. Forcing students to "respect" (a respect that will be pure hipocrsy) the national anthem does not induce real respect for the nation in the students - it induces disrespect. Furthermore - isn't it disrespectful towards the national anthem to believe that students hate it so much that it is necessary to use force to get it respected? Naomi Leroux PSP speaker on education and culture |
| Date | 01:51:49, September 18, 2007 CET | From | Scientific Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Civilised Schools Act |
| Message | We're on the fence about article 1, and leaning towards disapproval of article 3 (should be schools' or teachers' or at least local governments' prerogative), but we are filled with approval for article 2. |
| Date | 02:06:07, September 18, 2007 CET | From | United Democrats of Jakania | To | Debating the Civilised Schools Act |
| Message | Actually, I could go with a local government decision for article two |
| Date | 17:14:58, September 18, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Labour Union | To | Debating the Civilised Schools Act |
| Message | We agree with the SDF, that would have been a better comprise. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 144 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 55 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 40 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life brand names (eg. Coca Cola, McDonalds, Microsoft). However, in the case of military equipment brand names it is permitted to use simple number-letter combinations (eg. T-90 and F-22) borrowed from real life, and also simple generic names, like those of animals (eg. Leopard and Jaguar). |
| Random quote: "I am loyal to the ideas, not to the institutions." - Cyro Aquila, former Selucian politician |