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Bill: Educational Option Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: freedom 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: November 2106
Description[?]:
| Our nation has a wide amount of religious diversity. All religions, including agnostics and athiests thrive here. We celebrate this, and while we are staunchly secularist, we feel this should only apply to what is publicly funded. In conjunction with our proposed school privatization and voucher systems, all fully private schools will not be required to teach sexual education should it colide with their interests. Local schools which are fully funded however, are still required to provide sexual education. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sexual education in schools.
Old value:: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Current: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty, but individual students have an opt-out option.
Proposed: This decision is up to the schools themselves without government regulation.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:14:56, August 30, 2005 CET | From |  Commercial Freedom | To | Debating the Educational Option Act |
| Message | Again, do you want teenage pregnancies to hit the roof? It could also lead to STDs, freedom isn't everything. We oppose. |
| Date | 11:03:32, August 30, 2005 CET | From | freedom party | To | Debating the Educational Option Act |
| Message | You assume that just because you dont have a rule in place, that people wont still teach sexual education. We believe the majority of schools will still do so. However, if it violates a schools religious principles, we have no right to strong arm them into it. OR if a parent simply wishes to teach sexuality to their children themselves, rather than through curricula, that should be their choice as well. We should allow parents to be parents to their children, and stop treating adults as such. |
| Date | 11:04:35, August 30, 2005 CET | From | freedom party | To | Debating the Educational Option Act |
| Message | You assume that just because you dont have a rule in place, that people wont still teach sexual education. We believe the majority of schools will still do so. However, if it violates a schools religious principles, we have no right to strong arm them into it. OR if a parent simply wishes to teach sexuality to their children themselves, rather than through curricula, that should be their choice as well. We should allow parents to be parents to their children, and stop treating adults as such. |
| Date | 03:54:24, August 31, 2005 CET | From | Enlightened Socialist Party | To | Debating the Educational Option Act |
| Message | Oppose. No matter what religious principles there are, there are things children need to know. We do not want teenage pregnancy and STDs to shoot up, nor to have children living all their lives believing that the stork drops the baby down the chimney. There is no way to ensure parents will teach their children what they need to know, but we can ensure schools teach what children need to know. And think of the child's freedom to be taught, too. If the school will not provide it, nor will the parents, but they wish to know, how are they to find out what is necessary? |
| Date | 14:24:48, August 31, 2005 CET | From | Commercial Freedom | To | Debating the Educational Option Act |
| Message | This would still be raising the amount of teenage pregnancies, although not all schools would do it there would still be some. And we do have large religious areas that need to be educated in sex, look at some of our provinces. If this bill gets passed we may face some serious problems in those certian areas. |
| Date | 18:12:49, September 05, 2005 CET | From | Enlightened Socialist Party | To | Debating the Educational Option Act |
| Message | We do not want teenage pregnancy and STDs to shoot up, nor to have children living all their lives believing that the stork drops the baby down the chimney. Still therefore oppose. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 152 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 149 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 109 |
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