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Bill: Educational Responsibility of December 2462
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertà Parti
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: February 2464
Description[?]:
| Private primary and secondary schools are banned, but private universities are allowed so long as they hold up to regulation. So, which should it be? Should private education be allowed or outlawed? It's a bit inconsistent to have both. Although we are proposing for unregulated private schools allowed for primary and secondary education, and allowing private preschool, and for the deregulation of private higher education (the invisible hand of the free market will make sure these schools are as good or better than public schools), we are also open to the converse: banning private higher education. Which should we do? Allow private, unregulated education at all levels? Or ban private higher education? We are open to compromise of either passing the bill as it is, allowing heavily regulated private education at all levels, or banning the current private higher education. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Current: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Proposed: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside unregulated private establishments.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
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: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:59:44, September 29, 2007 CET | From | Libertà Parti | To | Debating the Educational Responsibility of December 2462 |
| Message | Remember, we are open to compromise: either/or. If a majority won't vote for this bill, we will amend it to ban private higher education. |
| Date | 15:03:09, September 29, 2007 CET | From | Libertà Parti | To | Debating the Educational Responsibility of December 2462 |
| Message | Remember, we are open to compromise: either/or. If a majority won't vote for this bill, we will amend it to ban private higher education. |
| Date | 15:59:14, September 29, 2007 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Educational Responsibility of December 2462 |
| Message | No to all three articles. Private enterprise will always have a loyalty to the LIK, whereas government managed education has a duty to the people, first, foremost, and solely. |
| Date | 22:57:30, September 29, 2007 CET | From | Libertà Parti | To | Debating the Educational Responsibility of December 2462 |
| Message | Anyone else have ideas? |
| Date | 23:18:09, September 29, 2007 CET | From | Libertà Parti | To | Debating the Educational Responsibility of December 2462 |
| Message | And as a response to the AMPS: Even if the private enterprise's sole responsibility is the LIK, if they do not serve the people better than public education does, than they will not get these LIKs. So, in order to get their "almighty LIK," they must first serve the people. |
| Date | 00:39:59, September 30, 2007 CET | From | Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Educational Responsibility of December 2462 |
| Message | The Liberta Party make a valid point, however whilst the general standard of education from private enterprise may be high, leaving aside the question as to whether providing the poor with less choice is morally justified, when push comes to shove, it is the bottom line, not the children, that will get loyalty. |
| Date | 13:39:14, September 30, 2007 CET | From | Libertà Parti | To | Debating the Educational Responsibility of December 2462 |
| Message | This is a good argument, but the national opinions of the Likatonian people moderately support capitalism. Yet, they also like big government, so there is no way I would attempt to take away their social infrastructure. However, I think we should give it a chance and see how the Likatonians like it. If they think that the private education is not good for Likatonia, then we'll find out when they vote my part down to the bottom. |
| Date | 13:39:47, September 30, 2007 CET | From | Libertà Parti | To | Debating the Educational Responsibility of December 2462 |
| Message | *my party - excuse me |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 312 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 354 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy has been running since 2005. Dorvik was Particracy's first nation, the Dorvik Social Democrats the first party and the International Greens the first Party Organisation. |
| Random quote: "I envy you. You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all, you live in the heart of the beast." - Che Guevara |