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Bill: BHV Education Reforms
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hulstrian People's Alliance
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: September 2724
Description[?]:
| It is time to ensure a higher level of regulation in the Education sector. We also believe that individual schools know best about the levels of discipline they need to be able to deliver. Naturally, it is our belief that no true son or daughter of Hulstria would show sufficient disrespect as to merit any such discipline, but hardened troublemakers do need to face the consequences. Placing the decision in the hands of the schools means that it will be made sufficiently close to the "coalface" as to have relevance, but with sufficient oversight to prevent abuses. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
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 2
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 | 17:29:16, March 11, 2009 CET | From |  Konstitutionelle Monarchie Partei | To | Debating the BHV Education Reforms |
| Message | I'd completely go for article 1 on the education system but article 2 on the teachers "right" to discipline children I can't. It should be the parents, not the teachers who should discipline children. |
| Date | 21:25:17, March 11, 2009 CET | From | Hulstrian People's Alliance | To | Debating the BHV Education Reforms |
| Message | Should this bill fail to pass, which seems unlikely, the BHV will consider proposing article 1 on its own. The rationale behind article 2 is that there are some situations - few and far between, but lamentably still extant - where the behaviour of a student merits immediate discipline, rather than the deferment of that discipline until the teacher informs the parents, and then they eventually decide what to do. It's not a case of conferring a "right" on the teacher necessarily, as any disciplinary decision is required to be in line with school-wide policy to start with, but rather allowing a more immediate response to egregious misbehaviour. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 370 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 355 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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