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Bill: RP Legalization of Home Schooling
Details
Submitted by[?]: (NWO) Church of Death
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: January 2634
Description[?]:
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
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 | 15:48:31, September 07, 2008 CET | From |  United Blobs | To | Debating the RP Legalization of Home Schooling |
| Message | Could the Radical Party please explain the reasons behind this bill? |
| Date | 22:17:44, September 07, 2008 CET | From | Hobrazian Extraordinary Gentlemen's Club | To | Debating the RP Legalization of Home Schooling |
| Message | «There are several important reasons and issues behind the bill and those are as following: a) At the moment there are people (families and individuals) that are not happy and are discontent with the quality and level of the provided educational study programs offered and provided in the state or in the private institutions (if we mention people of adult age related to higher education institutes). b) The compulsory education with children obliged to be attending schools becomes a problematic issue for families with disabled children. Especially with schools, which yet or at all do not have resources or required infrastructure. That becomes both an issue for the child, making him or her vulnerable to social aggression in the school where other under age children are not yet capable of expressing tolerance and understanding at a desirable level. Also such situations might be making parents vulnerable to additional expenses; nervous breakdowns and other inconvenience. The bill will allow those families to teach their children according to individual study plan at home. This will let individuals acquire the information and knowledge they consider important at deeper or superficial levels. Families with disabled people will be able to provide the necessary equipment, favorable atmosphere and friendly environment. Nota bene: To make bill viable and effective a system of centralized school exams should be introduced; where individuals taking the home-schooling are still going to remain subjects to these standard tests (same centralized exams or final checks/tests taken in the normal schools). These measures will make sure the quality of education supposed to be provided by the state won't be lower if/when provided by home-schooling. Another additional issue: an informational bureau should be opened/introduced, where home-schooling taking parents (children) could be provided with information concerning the courses and subjects taught in school; and any other information regarding the exams; and where would be possible to apply/request for setup of additional services for disabled pupils at the examination place. The informational bureau might be held at and by Education ministry; or could be a dependable subject of the Education ministry.» Lionel Wilson, candidate for Education and Culture Ministry from Hobrazian Social Justice Party. |
| Date | 00:30:16, September 08, 2008 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the RP Legalization of Home Schooling |
| Message | This bill is not required and is, most importantly, bad for the child. Children put through home schooling not only miss out on the education provided by educational establishments (be they public or state) but also miss out on one of the most crucial aspects of learning, that of social interaction with peers and adults. We will also cover those points put forward by our right honourable colleagues of the HSJP: a) Those people dissatisfied with the level of educational study programmes are entitled to provide for additional study for their children above that provided by current educational establishments. However, there can be no guarantee that the child(ren) involved in home schooled learning receive a high enough quality of learning compared to their schooled peers. Due to this issue introducing home schooling places the child(ren) being taught in the home of falling behind their peers through no fault of their own. Moreover, the state sector is set up to provide additional learning for those pupils who are deemed to be of higher standard and those pupils receive a tailored programme to further test their abilities. b) All Hobrazian scholastic institutions are required to provide facilities for the disabled. Moreover, both the state and private sectors operate specialist facilities in order to cope with the specialist needs of disabled pupils. We would also point out that keeping a disabled child at home in an environment where they do not come into contact with their peers would cause more harm to that child psychologically than would having that child in a scholastic institution. This bill will limit children's access to balanced educational and social provision and limit the abilities of many children in ways that cannot even be realised. Moreover, the introductions of home schooling inspections and checks to maintain quality of education for those being home schooled would take vast amounts of money away from the education of pupils and so reduce the effectiveness of education for all with very little discernible improvement, if any, for those being home schooled. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 122 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 278 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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