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Bill: Education (Age of Mandatory Attendance) Amendment Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union 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: December 2566
Description[?]:
| An act to lower the age of mandatory attendance. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The age until which students, if education were to be compulsary, are required to be educated (limited between 16 and 21).
Old value:: 18
Current: 18
Proposed: 17
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:41:29, April 24, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Education (Age of Mandatory Attendance) Amendment Act |
| Message | Keeping someone at school until they're 18 is not only a waste of their time, which they could spend working in a trade and gaining life skills, it is a waste of resources that could be used on academic-minded students. |
| Date | 16:24:23, April 24, 2008 CET | From | Tukarali Graenix Party | To | Debating the Education (Age of Mandatory Attendance) Amendment Act |
| Message | Seeing as I graduated high school at 17, I support. |
| Date | 22:36:18, April 24, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Education (Age of Mandatory Attendance) Amendment Act |
| Message | @JUP: Indeed, there's a group of "school-tired" youth who're better of if they can do something in stead of sitting in a class all day. However, we do not believe a simple general reduction in education age is a good solution. There's plenty of school/work programs and internships, on the job apprenticeships,... where pupils can gain some work experience while not quitting their education entirely, which has much better results. Sure, courses can be boring, and skipping classes can be fun.. But if they don't have the discipline at school, how do you expect they'll react if they have to do boring monotonous tasks at their job, which is not entirely unlikely if they never got any degree, they start skipping work, get fired.. No, we should encourage them, guide them, using the school/work combination approach @TGP: Where I live there is complusary education untill the end of the schoolyear of the year the child becomes 18 OR when the student has reached his high school degree (secondary education), which is reasonable I think.. |
| Date | 00:37:51, April 25, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Education (Age of Mandatory Attendance) Amendment Act |
| Message | We should of course encourage and guide them, but we cannot force them to learn. By the time they're 17, they're certainly old enough to decide whether school is the place for them. If they choose to stay, they're going to appreciate the education provided to them since they chose to participate. Someone who does not want to be at school is not going to learn anything by being forced to attend. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 247 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 188 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 65 |
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