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Bill: Discipline Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Selucian Masters Party
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: August 3250
Description[?]:
| Only a tougher, more serious attitude towards discipline has any efficacy. |
Proposals
Article 1
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: Discipline levels are set by local governments.
Proposed: Discipline levels are set by schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:35:48, January 26, 2012 CET | From | Democratic Reform Union | To | Debating the Discipline Act |
| Message | No, teachers haven't right to beat pupils. Under any circumstances. |
| Date | 22:38:12, January 26, 2012 CET | From | Selucian Masters Party | To | Debating the Discipline Act |
| Message | The point of the SMP's proposal is when the discipline levels are for the schools to decide, parents who believe in tougher discipline can send their children to schools that have it, and parents who don't believe in the same can send their children to schools with the lax, modern system. |
| Date | 15:05:52, January 27, 2012 CET | From | LP | To | Debating the Discipline Act |
| Message | Again, that has to happend in a national context, because of various reasons, for example because education in this country shouldn't differ that much, because we belong to one nation. |
| Date | 21:16:32, January 27, 2012 CET | From | Selucian Masters Party | To | Debating the Discipline Act |
| Message | The SMP would rather that some schools be really good and others really bad than for all of them to be no good at all. The point we are trying to make is it is perfectly all right for education to vary officially (education is already varied between individuals). Standardized testing is a bane on education and a lax discipline system puts the entire educational system under ridicule. Instead of understanding the material, students practice on how to score well on the tests. Standardized testing does not measure what students know; it measures how good they are at taking tests, and this is done at the expense of real education. There already is a national standard, which requires students to learn a certain amount of skill and information at at certain points. The methods schools take on to effect these requirements should be, to a large extent, left alone. Parents who want their children to be treated in the emasculated system are free to do so under the system the SMP is proposing. The only novelty in this proposal is adding the choice of sending one's children into a school that takes discipline seriously. |
| Date | 00:04:59, January 28, 2012 CET | From | Selucian Liberal Party | To | Debating the Discipline Act |
| Message | Cannot agree to this. |
| Date | 17:09:43, January 28, 2012 CET | From | LP | To | Debating the Discipline Act |
| Message | No, it is not right, that education varies. We need one education and one kind of edcuation because all the pupils have to compete on the same market. Those, who want a stricter edcuation can send their childrens on private schools. The SMP is trying to execute a stricter education through the back door. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 391 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 359 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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