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Bill: Choice in Education Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hete Brorskap
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: September 2605
Description[?]:
| Our educational system is very centralised, with the same rules being applied to every institution across the country. We would like to devolve power to parents, schools, teachers and pupils, so that everybody has a bit more choice about what kind of education and what kind of values they want to opt into. Alf Borghild (Chief Gothi of the Hete Brorskap) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Charter schools are not allowed.
Current: Charter school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Proposed: Only non-profit organizations may establish charter schools.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Current: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Proposed: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Article 3
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: 16
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government does not allow private higher education institutions.
Current: The government does not allow private higher education institutions.
Proposed: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Article 5
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: 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.
Article 6
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.
Proposed: This decision is up to the schools themselves without government regulation.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change The teacher's right to discipline children.
Old value:: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Current: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Proposed: Discipline levels are set by schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:43:52, July 12, 2008 CET | From |  Nasjonal Front | To | Debating the Choice in Education Act |
| Message | This Bill leans towards devolving power from central Government and thus unfortunately we cannot offer our support. The Nasjonal Front is more than happy with the current legislation. |
| Date | 23:13:22, July 12, 2008 CET | From | Hete Brorskap | To | Debating the Choice in Education Act |
| Message | We respect the Nasjonal Front position, but hope the other parties will regard this Bill with more sympathy. Alf Borghild (Chief Gothi of the Hete Brorksap) |
| Date | 02:25:37, July 13, 2008 CET | From | Demokratisk Pacifist Partiet | To | Debating the Choice in Education Act |
| Message | We support articles 1, 4, and 5, but cannot endorse the rest. Giving people choices in their education and their children's education shouldn't mean that we allow some schools to slide back to an older and less efficient age of schooling where striking students was permitted, students got no useful sexual education, and parents could be left to teach children by themselves, depriving children of the social and lfe skills gained in a true school environment. |
| Date | 23:30:17, July 13, 2008 CET | From | Nasjonal Front | To | Debating the Choice in Education Act |
| Message | For once the NF and DPP agree on an issue! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 54 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 329 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 117 |
| Random fact: Party organizations are eligible for deletion if they are over 50 in-game years old, do not have at least 1 active member or are historically significant and possess historically significant information. |
| Random quote: "Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom." - Friedrich Hayek |