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Bill: Education System
Details
Submitted by[?]: Capitalizt Party
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: March 2128
Description[?]:
| Private schools have little reason to exist if they are heavily regulated by the State. Instead, citizens should be free to choose between a State owned Education System and private schools, providing vast differences of quality. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: 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.
Current: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:27:57, October 15, 2005 CET | From |  United Blobs | To | Debating the Education System |
| Message | "Private schools have little reason to exist if they are heavily regulated by the State." - The regulations are only to make sure that they teach adequate skills. They are the private sectors equivalent to the National Curriculum. |
| Date | 15:28:30, October 15, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Education System |
| Message | "providing vast differences of quality" - Why would you want to promote inequality? |
| Date | 15:56:28, October 15, 2005 CET | From |  Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Education System |
| Message | I agree with UB. The regulations are in place only to ensure adequate educational standards are met and do not infringe on the rights of those who choose to attend private school. |
| Date | 17:27:30, October 15, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Education System |
| Message | Agree with the statements already made by my honourable colleagues. |
| Date | 21:40:20, October 15, 2005 CET | From | Capitalizt Party | To | Debating the Education System |
| Message | "Private schools have little reason to exist if they are heavily regulated by the State." and "providing vast differences of quality" State regulation puts private schools to similar levels among them. So, where's the difference apart from being 'private'? Couldn't a private school be better than a state owned one? Inequality? I mean difference. If a school provides a certain level of education, it's up to the citizen to choose. |
| Date | 23:42:28, October 15, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Education System |
| Message | The reuglation makes it so that private schools do not provide worse quality than public ones. There is nothing stopping them being better. Parents can still choose which schools to send their pupils to - the free ones or the private ones - as each has their own advantages and disadvantages. Without regulation we would have no way to control what private schools teach their pupils. |
| Date | 14:42:05, October 18, 2005 CET | From | Capitalizt Party | To | Debating the Education System |
| Message | I'd put this to vote. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 400 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: The players in a nation have a collective responsibility to ensure their "Bills under debate" section is kept in good order. Bills which are irrelevant or have become irrelevant should be deleted. Deletion can be requested for bills proposed by inactive parties on the Bill Clearout Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4363 |
| Random quote: "To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow." - William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches and Public Letters |