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Bill: Back to Modern Ages Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rutanian Democratic Forum
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: June 2618
Description[?]:
| ...coming from Middle Ages where this government has put us. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is entirely voluntary.
Current: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Proposed: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:10:00, August 06, 2008 CET | From | Humanist Alliance | To | Debating the Back to Modern Ages Act |
| Message | A good education is essentiel in our community. |
| Date | 20:15:30, August 06, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Back to Modern Ages Act |
| Message | Of course it is. |
| Date | 01:48:47, August 07, 2008 CET | From | Federal Rutanian Libertarian Union | To | Debating the Back to Modern Ages Act |
| Message | We agree that education is essential to lead a good and prosperous life and rational consumers that the people are will choose to be educated above all other choices provided their utility is higher with education. Thus, we do not believe that the government now has to mandate that the people attend school, rather that they should choose to attend schooling in order to attain more skills and knowledge becoming much more competitive in the workforce. |
| Date | 11:29:59, August 07, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Back to Modern Ages Act |
| Message | educations is not "consuming", "students" are not "consumers", education is not a "product". By this means, you know that people are not going to choose school. See higher education: it's not compulsory, and many do not choose it. But here are we talking about elementary school! About basic literacy! |
| Date | 12:36:44, August 07, 2008 CET | From | Federal Rutanian Libertarian Union | To | Debating the Back to Modern Ages Act |
| Message | Whether you like it or not, members of the RDF, education IS a product - schools are competing now to offer the best education and attract as many students as possible through the system that now operates in Rutania. We are ensuring that schools now are of the utmost quality by offering a far better alternative rather than being guarnateed funding and profits by forcing (and thus reducing the freedom of) people into schooling. Rational consumers will indeed attend school and choose the equip themselves with skills to be competitive in the workforce, especially with the removal of lazy-friendly welfare payments. |
| Date | 13:53:54, August 07, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Back to Modern Ages Act |
| Message | Whether you like it or not, members of the PCP, education IS NOT a product . Knowledge is not a product. Skills are not a product. Education results, knowledge and skills can be used to make a product, but they, by themselves, are not product. Education is a development: mental, moral, knowledge % skills development; and we strongly oppose this materialistic and profit- oriented view on education. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 257 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 342 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Cultural Protocols should generally be reflective of RP conducted within the nation and should not significantly alter or modify the ethnic, religious or linguistic composition without considerable and reasonable role-play or other justification. |
| Random quote: "Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions." - Niccolo Machiavelli |