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Bill: Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union Party
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: July 2518
Description[?]:
| An act to require that all children attend a school. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Current: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Proposed: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:52:32, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | We owe it to all the children of this nation to ensure they have a good education. By letting any parent pull their children of of schools, we are doing those children a disservice. This is not about parents' rights, this is about the right of the child. The purpose of this bill is not to prevent a qualified parent from teaching their child, however. If a parent is educated, and is qualified to teach, then there is no reason to prevent them. They simply need to become licensed as a private school. The only reason for this bill is to prevent uneducated parents trying to make their children the same. |
| Date | 13:04:16, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | FUCK NO!!!!!! This bill is really really idiotic and stupid. As a former homeschooler, I am calling on all poliltical parties to rise up against this bill and allow parents the right to educate their children at home. |
| Date | 19:01:38, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | We'll probably oppose. What's wrong with home schooling? They'ld have to fullfill the same educational standards as schools. However if the schooling is deemed to be inadequat, the kid should go to school. |
| Date | 20:25:38, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | In the state where I was homeschooled, we had to live up to standards and are evaluated at the end of every year. |
| Date | 21:56:00, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | No wonder you failed in your exams at school. Perhaps if you went to a proper school, you would've done better. If a parent wishes to teach their children at home, then they need to become a registered private school. This simply means they must be subject to all regulations that private schools are. Currently, there is nothing in the law preventing parents from "home schooling" their children, by not teaching them at all. That is what this bill will prevent. |
| Date | 22:23:28, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | Here's the kicker for you to suck on JUP! I breezed through the PSSA (The Pennsylvania State Assessment Tests) with a rating of 12.8 to 12.9 (thats the 12th grade 8 month level of education) in nearly every subject. This was when I was a fucking junior. It is the SAT (the Standardized Assessment Tests) that the federal government tells us to take that I never did well. Neither did my fiance who did go to a public school and you know what? She's studying to be a teacher at the premier teacher's school in the fucking state of PA (the same school I went two and graduated from with 2 degrees). So stick that up your tail pipe. As to the rest of your statement, its so loaded with bullshit that its a pathetic excuse to brainwash people into what you think they should be. Grow the fuck up fool and realize it is comments like yours that cost you your title as head of state. |
| Date | 23:30:22, January 16, 2008 CET | From | JDW Tukarali Greens Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | oppose really JUP, the personal attacks at RP can be quite irritating home schooling addresses a problem with lack of quality in public schools however the current law does not grant the parents tax exemption so public schools are still being supported |
| Date | 00:29:00, January 17, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | That's indeed true JDW. In the state I live in, homeschoolers are allowed to participate in 2 non-core classes (provided they are not full) as well as participating in sports as well as school plays. Why? Because we were still paying taxes to the school. |
| Date | 01:42:11, January 17, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | Any lack of quality in schools comes from a misguided national policy preventing sensible examination of students. Parents who prevent their kids from going to school do so with the notion that somehow they know better than experts. Such parents very rarely do. We don't let parents do surgery on their children, because they think they can do better than doctors. How is this at all different? Both can lead to irrepairable damage to the child. More than just education, schools teach kids how to be social with their peers. That alone is enough reason to stop homeschooling. |
| Date | 02:17:09, January 17, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | Statement #1: That is why I support the abolishment of the Federal Department of Education Statement #3: Do not get me started on the socialization issue. I'm sick and tired of that argument. And no. It is not enough reason to stop homeschooling. You are just ignorant of homeschooling. |
| Date | 12:05:27, January 17, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | Well there it is. You oppose state run education entirely. Ridiculous. |
| Date | 14:20:59, January 17, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | I prefer it to be runned by the states themselves and not by the federal government. The law I was just talking about was past by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. A state that used to be what you are proposing now. |
| Date | 23:45:33, January 17, 2008 CET | From | JDW Tukarali Greens Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | as long as education is primarily funded by local property taxes there will continue to be vast inequality in the quality of schools hence those living in a bad tax base area need some option, even if it is not all that great did not homeschool myself, so do not know much about it really however support since tax base is maintained (reason given previously) |
| Date | 00:26:23, January 18, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | Education is funded by the government of course, not through property taxes. |
| Date | 00:52:42, January 18, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | Oh for the love of God! :headbang: JUP, you really need to study other cultures for if you did, the school districts in the United States not only receive state and federal funding, it does not pay for everything and thus property taxes (Which is another name for school tax) does fund the education of kids. You really are a complete jackass in this. |
| Date | 18:07:22, January 18, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Education (Home Schooling) Amendment Act |
| Message | YAY!!!! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 75 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 294 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 105 |
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