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Bill: Intellectual Revolution Act of 2496
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei
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: August 2497
Description[?]:
This comprehensive legislation stipulates that in terms of education policy, we want the good people of this great Republic to be the SMARTEST, BRIGHTEST, and most INNOVATIVE citizens in all of Terra. [OOC] The United States might be the greatest political democracy, but the people are the DUMBEST when compared to the Chinese and Japanese. This is so b/c Oriental nations on that planet invest heavily in Education resources as a Fundamental Right. [IC] Therefore, this legislation revolutionarily renovates the FAILED public school system for an efficent Free-Market based approach that involves COMPETITION. It is only with competition that the price of education will fall while the QUALITY rises: (1) We suspend the management of Pre-schools to Local Governments; The Federal Gov't shouldn't be bogged down babysitting toddlers; (2) (a) Nationalizes all PUBLIC schools--[not private b/c we're not socialists]--under the Dept. of Education in St. Vodinsberg; (b) Next, once the Central Government has control and ownership of these Public Schools, this bill stipulates that all of those schools--[the land, property, resources]--will be transferred DIRECTLY to all of the Public School Teachers' Union(s) collectively so that they can have PRIVATE OWNERSHIP & CONTROL of the Land, Property, and Resources of the schools, thus managing them as their own private corporation paying corporate tax, income tax, etc. while working for a PROFIT DIVIDEND rather than a miniscule "wage"; (c) Finally, the Central Government fully (100%) subsidizes the cost of private Elementary & Secondary School tuition for the citizentry; (d) [OOC] If you would like to see a REAL world example of this plan in action, cf. http://www.nycfamilies.org [IC] Thank you for your full support. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Current: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Proposed: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
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 leaves the pre-school education policy to local governments.
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: Education is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for everyone
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: invalid choice
Current: There is a National Curriculum which all government schools are obliged to follow; non-government schools are partially exempt.
Proposed: invalid choice
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:43:42, December 06, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Intellectual Revolution Act of 2496 |
| Message | The private education thing is irrelevent. It totally conflicts with the logic of the CWFP in other bills. The home-schooling clause is a halfway house.. a gesture in the right direction, but maybe not far enough. The pre-school thing is the only part of this we actually like. At the moment, it's a close call, but we are willing to vote against it, simply because the CWFP called it. |
| Date | 19:10:59, December 06, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Workers' Party and CTUL List | To | Debating the Intellectual Revolution Act of 2496 |
| Message | This isn't revolution, merely perverse dabbling and experimenting in unsavoury privatisation of our children's future. |
| Date | 19:49:31, December 06, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Intellectual Revolution Act of 2496 |
| Message | The 'testing in the field' clause effectively nailed the coffin here, unfortunately. |
| Date | 23:12:37, December 06, 2007 CET | From | Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei | To | Debating the Intellectual Revolution Act of 2496 |
| Message | TDP, Article #4 does NOT discourage or eliminate standardized testing. Rather, it says practical testing in the workfield would be given a PRIORITY. Case in point: you have 2 students in Biology class and one ACES the test and flunks it. However, when both students are given an opportunity to APPLY the skills that they learned in class to work in the laboratory, we find out that the student that "aced" the test cannot apply his "knowledge." However, the student that failed is much more productive. |
| Date | 23:27:36, December 06, 2007 CET | From | Neue Kommunistische Liga | To | Debating the Intellectual Revolution Act of 2496 |
| Message | We support all... With "Ehs" on 3 and 4. We think that private education can be bad. But we also think student creativity is important, but so is practical work. |
| Date | 06:01:11, December 07, 2007 CET | From | Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei | To | Debating the Intellectual Revolution Act of 2496 |
| Message | So, the NKP flip-flopped on this issue (haha)??? |
| Date | 07:07:47, December 07, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Intellectual Revolution Act of 2496 |
| Message | Why does the CWFP act like 'flip-flopping' is bad? If you decide that your earlier vote was wrong, then NOT correcting that oversight would be pretty dumb. We'd much rather have 'flip-floppers' in the convocation than people that stick with a stupid idea till we're all dead. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 152 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 434 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 80 |
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