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Bill: Home Education Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Sekowo Green 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: November 2636
Description[?]:
| We believe parents should be allowed the choice to either send their children to community school or to educate their children themselves. We should obviously regulate this by ensuring parents are suitable to educate their children and that the curriculum covers all the core material that is covered in regular schools across the country. |
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 | 07:28:11, September 12, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Home Education Bill |
| Message | We are against. Education must happen at school where children can be helped in areas where they need it in an open environment where falsehoods cannot be spread. |
| Date | 07:30:49, September 12, 2008 CET | From | Sekowo Green Party | To | Debating the Home Education Bill |
| Message | And yet we entrust parents with the duty of explaining all the hardcore pornography that they can watch of television... |
| Date | 07:43:10, September 12, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Home Education Bill |
| Message | We entrust parents and society as a whole to, besides, it's worked for two-hundred years, something must be going right. When it comes down to it schools are much more capable of education then parents as parents are likely to form biases do to their familial relationships and may be influenced by religion or ideologies. Schools (are meant to atleast) do not have this bias and teach things from a neutral and, in terms of science, scientific point of view. |
| Date | 02:29:05, September 13, 2008 CET | From |  Sekowan Democrats | To | Debating the Home Education Bill |
| Message | We support. |
| Date | 03:10:00, September 13, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Home Education Bill |
| Message | CP supports. Having both options is better for the people. |
| Date | 15:18:39, September 13, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the Home Education Bill |
| Message | Is there an option that talks about regulation? WE might support this depending on the wording of other options. |
| Date | 17:28:08, September 13, 2008 CET | From | Sekowan Independent Party | To | Debating the Home Education Bill |
| Message | We side with the DSP on this issue. Schools are staffed by highly trained educators, that are as trained in the ability to defuse negativity and violent topics as well as their training and own education in their chosen field. It is unlikely, though possible, that the parent of a child has received a graduate education from a higher education institution in ALL of the fields of: Language, Mathematics, and Science. As such, trained teachers are far more qualified to be teaching children. And again, we go back to an educator's training to defuse topics that are negative; such as race, religion, gender roles, or really any bigotry and ethnocentrism. While we normally suppose liberty of choice, the education of our nation's youth should be of primary importance, and we should ensure that no child is given a sub-standard education. Lastly, we do not share the same level of fear as the DSP, but we do share the fear that parents would use this "home schooling" as a means to spread socially unacceptable doctrine. Hatred, bigotry, and ethnocentrism could be taught to a child who has no access to any source of understanding other than these. The effects would, essentially, leave the child unable to live or work in a mixed ethnic environment once they reach adulthood. |
| Date | 23:53:34, September 13, 2008 CET | From | Sekowo Green Party | To | Debating the Home Education Bill |
| Message | "Is there an option that talks about regulation? WE might support this depending on the wording of other options." OOC: Unfortunately not, otherwise we would have picked that. Would we not assume this would be regulated if it was passed however? |
| Date | 00:04:23, September 14, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Home Education Bill |
| Message | OOC: Given the extremes this has gone sometimes, I don't think we could assume it would be regulated. |
| Date | 00:23:24, September 14, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the Home Education Bill |
| Message | We shall vote yes for now, as long as we understand it is regulated. |
| Date | 03:20:44, September 14, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Home Education Bill |
| Message | It's not regulated. |
| Date | 09:51:49, September 14, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Home Education Bill |
| Message | [[It is almost certainly regulated; home schooling in the United Sates is regulated, for example.]] |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 289 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 233 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 78 |
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