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Bill: Better Education Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Reform Coalition (FRP)
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: September 2046
Description[?]:
| This bill will allow private education to exist. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:49:15, May 01, 2005 CET | From |  Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Better Education Act |
| Message | Private schools educate children better than public schools. By introducing private education, the monopoly on education is broken. The resulting competition will mean that public schools will have to improve because they will be compared to higher performing private schools. Furthermore, opening up education to the market and having public schools ensures that private schools will teach what is both necessary for basic skills but will also offer even more types of education. |
| Date | 18:56:04, May 01, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Better Education Act |
| Message | Do you carry the dead horse with you everywhere you go, or do you have it sent ahead of time so you can beat it at will? |
| Date | 20:51:00, May 01, 2005 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Better Education Act |
| Message | The LP opinion has still not changed. Against. |
| Date | 07:56:05, May 02, 2005 CET | From | Social Republican Party | To | Debating the Better Education Act |
| Message | Hm. Private education does allow higher quality. It also leaches off teachers, and funds. Thus, the public schools lose, but they cannot improve becuase of a lack of funds. Against. |
| Date | 08:57:07, May 02, 2005 CET | From | Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Better Education Act |
| Message | SRP, you make interesting points. Many have argued that spending more money on public schools will ensure that they improve, this is not the case and history has shown this. (examples include underachieving inner city public schools in almost any country, see london and the United states for best examples of this). Nevertheless, if you are concerned about public school funding consider this: with more students in private schools who can afford the cost, there is more money per student in the public school sector. (this is considering that everyone pays taxes for public schools no matter what) As for leaching off teachers, I offer this argument: Teachers can form unions which can negatively affect the education process in public schools. In most cases, it is not the teacher that suffers when funds are short it is the students who suffer. Private schools create an incentive for teachers to become properly educated and trained in their profession. Also: Public schools, by their nature, have an inherent flaw that cannot be fixed easily. The flaw results from having a classroom with bright, "normal," and below average intelligence children. In these cases, the education process is slower to catch as many people with the educational net. Private schools can specifically cater to smarter, or less smart students and since the market will determine the cost of education, they may be relatively inexpensive. Example of where this is true: In the United States, Catholic schools manage to turn out students with better scores on standardized tests and better grades on individual subjects than public schools, and they do with a smaller budget than the public schools. (as an aside, American catholic schools accept people of all religions and do not force anyone to participate in religious activities, nevertheless, parents of different religious beliefs send their children to these schools because of their ability to educate better and at a lesser cost than public schools.) |
| Date | 21:50:59, May 02, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Better Education Act |
| Message | Private schools turn out students with better scores because they throw out students who are BD, ED, LD or just not perfomring. That's called a non-representative sample. And the rest is such garbage it's laughable; the FRP is either at war with teachers or children, we can't determine with, but either way, their ignorance is nonetheless apalling. |
| Date | 01:27:33, May 03, 2005 CET | From | Social Republican Party | To | Debating the Better Education Act |
| Message | Good point. I assumed that going to a Private school saves you from the taxes used for schooling. But if that won't be the case, I agree. |
| Date | 12:53:23, May 03, 2005 CET | From | Radical Centrists | To | Debating the Better Education Act |
| Message | We support. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 48 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 52 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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