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Bill: Education Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: 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: August 2576
Description[?]:
| In order to bette educate our students, the Democratic Party, while controlling the ministry of education, proposes the follow measures to benefit our great nation. Creativity will be defined as: The students ability to come up with solutions to problems, work through their assignments, and score well on tests issued by the individual teacher. Standardized testing, when voted in by politicians who have never been in the classroom, is not in the best interests of students. Intelligence can not be measured by running scores through a machine and memorizing answers. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: invalid choice
Current: There is a National Curriculum which all schools are obliged to follow.
Proposed: invalid choice
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:46:08, May 13, 2008 CET | From | Mordusian Austrian Union | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
| Message | We support this measure. |
| Date | 09:42:34, May 13, 2008 CET | From | Federal Republican Party (UCF) | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
| Message | We support. |
| Date | 11:06:05, May 13, 2008 CET | From | National Thomasian Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
| Message | We agree with the principle behind it but we feel that "creativity" is a rather nebulous thing to measure and that employers may not be so willing to trust it. Unless we can find some way to realistically make it work we will have to oppose. |
| Date | 13:05:23, May 13, 2008 CET | From | Federal Republican Party (UCF) | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
| Message | NTP's arguments are logical, we would have to find a compromise. |
| Date | 22:53:26, May 13, 2008 CET | From | Union Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
| Message | Is it that the Republicans find their arguments logical, or is it that they are feably trying to compromise their principles to gain political favors? The definition of creativity, as it pertains to this bill, has been added to the description. |
| Date | 23:44:22, May 13, 2008 CET | From | National Thomasian Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
| Message | The Democratic Party merely seems to replace one test which is easily comparable across the board with a whole series of different tests which will make it impossible to differentiate between the skills of different pupils and the quality of different schools. |
| Date | 00:03:49, May 14, 2008 CET | From | Union Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
| Message | Is the quality of different schools determined by how well students can memorize answers for canned questions? Is intelligence measured by being able to fill in dots on a paper? What about those who are not the best test takers, yet perform exceptionally well in the classroom? Does the National Thomasian Party wish to hold back the floodgates of educational progress? |
| Date | 16:16:36, May 14, 2008 CET | From | Federal Republican Party (UCF) | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
| Message | We must respectfuly ask the Democratic Party to drop all their unfounded accusations of flattery attempts to us in regard of the National Thomasian Party. |
| Date | 16:16:52, May 14, 2008 CET | From | Federal Republican Party (UCF) | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
| Message | We must respectfuly ask the Democratic Party to drop all their unfounded accusations of flattery attempts to us in regard of the National Thomasian Party. |
| Date | 23:00:15, May 14, 2008 CET | From | Union Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
| Message | The Democratic Party only points to facts: A self proclaimed socially conservative party voted to keep abortion legal. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 77 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 423 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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