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Bill: Education Reforms
Details
Submitted by[?]: Green & Liberal Socialist 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: January 3375
Description[?]:
| An abolition of private education is necessary. No one should have a better education than another because they have been born into a wealthier family. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Charter school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Current: Charter school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Proposed: Charter schools are not allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Current: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Proposed: The government does not allow private higher education institutions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:30:13, October 03, 2012 CET | From | Independent Party | To | Debating the Education Reforms |
| Message | It appears the GSLP is not in favor of allowing our citizens to choose anything for themselves. This attempt to socialize our educational system is quite shameful. |
| Date | 11:39:45, October 03, 2012 CET | From | Green & Liberal Socialist Party | To | Debating the Education Reforms |
| Message | Private education breeds inequality, it provides a better education for those who have been born into a wealthy family by pure chance; those having the education have not worked for that position and therefore do not deserve to have a better quality of education than any others. There is no logical or rational way you can condone private education. |
| Date | 13:45:41, October 03, 2012 CET | From | Independent Party | To | Debating the Education Reforms |
| Message | So, the only reason someone is wealthy is because of pure chance, not hard work. Is that what the GLSP believes? Public and private education don't have to be different or unequal in any way. The people, not their government, have the right to choose whether they want to send their children to private or public school. Again, it's called choice, a word the GLSP does not have in its vocabulary. |
| Date | 16:15:32, October 03, 2012 CET | From | Green & Liberal Socialist Party | To | Debating the Education Reforms |
| Message | The children who will benefit from the private education have not earned their wealth, so why should they benefit from private education? |
| Date | 19:30:19, October 03, 2012 CET | From | Independent Party | To | Debating the Education Reforms |
| Message | Is the GSLP advocating child labor? |
| Date | 20:45:09, October 03, 2012 CET | From | Green & Liberal Socialist Party | To | Debating the Education Reforms |
| Message | No. No we are not. Come up with a proper response. No one chooses where they're born into society and so all should have an equal start, and that lies in public education where the standards of the schools are monitored and therefore equal. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 219 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 56 |
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