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Bill: The Alorian Freeminded Educational Act Part 2
Details
Submitted by[?]: Industrialist Party of Aloria
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: June 2461
Description[?]:
| This bill will help expand liberty in Alorian schools while also keeping them free of charge. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Proposed: Education is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for everyone
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:23:33, September 25, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the The Alorian Freeminded Educational Act Part 2 |
| Message | This allows for free market competition without the loss of school for the disadvantaged, in fact to be fair, all children get State paid tuition. Now Christian children who previously couldn't go to a private Christian school because they were poor can, and likewise with other religions and ideologies. Compare it to a magazine industry, if the government had one magazine industry and forced all to either read their magazine for free, read one magazine of a private organization for fee, or make their own magazine which do you think most people will choose? The first. That is the same with public education today. Not only that, but whoever controls the education industry, or a magazine industry, can control what people read and learn. Education is a power the government needs to get out of for the freeman's own good. Or the ruling class will spite force minorities into their mold and crush the individualism, the identity, of the Alorian people. If education is not made voluntary at least hear this plea for more a more competitive and specialized education, yet still for all to enjoy. |
| Date | 08:36:37, September 25, 2007 CET | From | Social Liberalism Party | To | Debating the The Alorian Freeminded Educational Act Part 2 |
| Message | Education should be the right of every Alorian, not a market force to be used for profit. |
| Date | 15:19:58, September 25, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the The Alorian Freeminded Educational Act Part 2 |
| Message | 1) What policies are there in place to ensure private schools don't compete to lower educational standards? Do we have national education standards? 2) Will privatization be cheaper or more expensive than the current model? 3) Will the "bottom tier" private schools be comparable in quality to presently existing public schools? Please don't use unsupported generalizations about how the "private sector" is always better than the "public sector." DRs don't buy that. Muriel Wisdom attended a fine quality public school, and then a fine quality public university. If you have empirical evidence, we'd like to see a link to it. [ooc: obviously, we're talking about evidence from the "real world." i'm genuinely curious about this issue. try to summarize it in a way that makes sense for the game if you want. /ooc]. |
| Date | 15:20:28, September 25, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the The Alorian Freeminded Educational Act Part 2 |
| Message | For now we're voting no. But we're still open to change our minds pending the answers to our questions. |
| Date | 16:54:43, September 25, 2007 CET | From | Alorian Free Democrats | To | Debating the The Alorian Freeminded Educational Act Part 2 |
| Message | So this is an incredibly convoluted way of providing public schooling? No thanks. |
| Date | 19:11:40, September 25, 2007 CET | From | Social Liberalism Party | To | Debating the The Alorian Freeminded Educational Act Part 2 |
| Message | AFP: This is an incredibly convulated way of providing public schooling WHEREIN the government pays the money to an independent private body to educate children. The only other difference is that, in theory, the schools will jostle for their paycheck, thus offering, for lack of a better term, educational "deals" to parents. |
| Date | 02:16:50, September 26, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the The Alorian Freeminded Educational Act Part 2 |
| Message | The MLP doesn't like it because it hates compromise, and the rest of you people don't like it because you think that public schools, through bureaucratic mess, can actually give a better education! Ha! This is the best of both worlds. We will post our argument against public schools in the Messages on the Alorian Homepage. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 102 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 559 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 39 |
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