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Bill: Educational Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Party of Aloria
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: January 3298
Description[?]:
| Reforming Child and Higher Education |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Current: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Proposed: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Current: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Proposed: Children are not made to sing the national anthem, but are required to show respect when it is played at the commencement of school each day.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: invalid choice
Current: There is a National Curriculum which is advisory only and is not binding on any schools.
Proposed: invalid choice
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:21:00, May 02, 2012 CET | From | True Men of God Party | To | Debating the Educational Reform Act |
| Message | Mr.Speaker Why on earth would you disagree that practical work is necessary? All standardized testing does is see if the students could memorize something quickly. |
| Date | 20:35:46, May 02, 2012 CET | From | Democratic Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Educational Reform Act |
| Message | Standardized testing allows all students to start at equal footing without advantages. School is meant to prepare you for the working world, not put you in it. |
| Date | 01:06:31, May 03, 2012 CET | From | True Men of God Party | To | Debating the Educational Reform Act |
| Message | What better way to understand the working world other than, I don't know, doing work? This doesn't mean we shove them and say "Get a Job!" This means that we will show them the practical application of their knowledge. |
| Date | 02:38:11, May 03, 2012 CET | From | Democratic Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Educational Reform Act |
| Message | Doing work has too many external factors that could affect a student's grade. It is also better not to subject students to the pressures of doing work, massive compared to the pressures of doing a standardized test. We can get a better understanding of the students mental capacity by their test scores. And as fr physical attributes, that is a factor that should not be graded in a school. |
| Date | 03:01:06, May 03, 2012 CET | From | True Men of God Party | To | Debating the Educational Reform Act |
| Message | The purpose of an education system is to ready our children for reality. Will citing random facts help someone get a job interview? Will knowing how to spell every word in existence matter to a farmer? And what if the student is simply having a bad day? Just a few sources to prove my point about standardized testing. http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2009/02/stop_the_standardized_test_tyranny.html http://parentsacrossamerica.org/performancepay/ http://www.greatschools.org/students/academic-skills/400-teaching-to-the-test.gs |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 75 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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