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Bill: Won't someone think of the children?
Details
Submitted by[?]: Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
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: October 2128
Description[?]:
| In order to prevent a catastrophic decline in literacy, mandatory public education is restored, effective immediately. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is entirely voluntary.
Current: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Proposed: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:19:29, October 19, 2005 CET | From |  National People's Gang | To | Debating the Won't someone think of the children? |
| Message | Although in the past we've been consistent supporters of voluntary education, we are concerned that proposals brought by the faithless heretics which dismantle safeguards within employment legislation may be aimed at promoting Lodamun as a centre for sex tourism, including government collusion in the prostitution of school-age children. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 229 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 71 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life fictional references (eg. Gandalf, Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker). |
| Random quote: "Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word." Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970) |