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Bill: Standards in education
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: July 2045
Description[?]:
| The private school system does not always teach the basic curriculum. This bill proposes that private schools will be regulated in order to ensure that they teach proper literacy and mathematics skills. However, the government may not interfere with the religious freedom of private schools by imposing measures such as compulsory sexual education. |
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 and a small number of private schools, which are heavily regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:37:53, April 28, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Standards in education |
| Message | The LSU will approve this bill on the condition that schools are not allowed to teach abstinence-only sexual education. They may not wish to provide their students with sexual education, but should not be allowed to present skewed facts. |
| Date | 01:21:55, April 29, 2005 CET | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the Standards in education |
| Message | The Council will not support this bill. This defeats one of the purposes of having private schools - the provision of an alternative to the public education system, which often turns out students that are all the same. Additionally, what does the CCF propose to do if a private school does not follow the regulations? Will they forcibly close it down? Will they cause it to close through outside pressure? What will the CCF do with the displaced students and faculty of closed private schools? Do they propose to build new public schools with the money they don't have because it was spent on regulation of private facilities? |
| Date | 03:16:43, April 29, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Standards in education |
| Message | The CNT/AFL disagrees on the purposes of having public schools. We feel that they are merely another way that the upper classes buy their way to services the masses are deprived off. If it were up to us, Public schooling would be the only option, but we feel regulation is the next best option. |
| Date | 03:47:36, April 29, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Standards in education |
| Message | It is the hope of the CCF that no schools will object to being required to teach basic ckills and literacy. The proposed core curriculum is not in violation of any major religious tenets, after all. Indeed, it is specifically worded to guarantee the freedom of religious schools. |
| Date | 05:47:05, April 29, 2005 CET | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the Standards in education |
| Message | Typical leftist idea. Not everyone can afford something, so nobody should be allowed to have it. The only schools that do not already teach these basics you seek to create legislation over are those that would not follow such legislation anyway. You can't have it both ways - either private schools are "better" as the CNT/AFL seems to be implying, meaning that they would certainly teach these basic skills already, or they are no better than public schools, which already have these guidelines anyway. There's simply no point in regulating private schools in this fashion. |
| Date | 17:56:56, April 29, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Standards in education |
| Message | Some private schools are "better" for-fee schools. Others are religious schools. This is merely an extension of the compulsory education bill already passed by parliament. Schools will be required to teach literacy and mathematics in order that students learn basic skills. Our constituents favour public education. This bill is a compromise between the desire for a national universal public scholls system, and the freedom of parents to choose their children's schools. There is certainly no action comtemplated to bar anyone from private schools, as the Council suggests. The point in regulating schools is to make sure that they teach students basic skills. This is a basic principle of education, after all. If they all do, then good. There will be no problem. But the principle of minimum standards must be observed nevertheless. It will also be a benchmark for new private schools which we are certain will open now that education is universal. |
| Date | 23:38:05, April 29, 2005 CET | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the Standards in education |
| Message | The point, however, is that private schools - even religious ones - will already teach the "basics" that you seek to impose upon them. There's not need for this legislation. |
| Date | 18:37:23, April 30, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Standards in education |
| Message | That's the whole point, sometimes religious teachings contradict proven fact, or theories accepted as fact beyond reasonable doubt. We cannot allow private schools to brainwash students, and then allow them high school diplomas while unsure about the accuracy of the presented curriculum. |
| Date | 03:13:16, May 01, 2005 CET | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the Standards in education |
| Message | So much for the CNT/AFL's caunted civil liberties. |
| Date | 17:45:28, May 01, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Standards in education |
| Message | The freedom to receive accurate knowledge is more important to us than the rights of private schools. It's all part of our hypocritical anti-private sector platform. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 45 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 20 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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