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Bill: Give Parents A RIGHT to CHOOSE Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Capitalist Working Families
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: November 3497
Description[?]:
| (1) This bill, firstly, directs local governments to transfer ownership of all public schools to the respective public school teachers UNION to operate as their own private for-profit corporation so that schools are managed and controlled by EDUCATORS instead of government bureaucrats. (2) This bill directs local governments to distribute the annual education budget directly to parents via $10,000 Elementary Pell Grants and thereby give parents the RIGHT to CHOOSE to send their children to any private school in the market. (3) AMENDMENT: Teachers are permitted to use corporal punishment on students at the DISCRETION of the parent of the student. (4) The ONLY way to improve FAILING public schools while reducing the cost is to create a For-profit school system and give PARENTS control of the budget distribution. |
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 alongside private schools.
Proposed: Education is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for everyone
Article 2
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: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Proposed: Teachers may use corporal punishment at their discretion.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:28:04, June 08, 2013 CET | From | Workers' Solidarity Movement | To | Debating the Give Parents A RIGHT to CHOOSE Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, "The ONLY way to improve FAILING public schools", to ape the Hon Gentleman's wording, is to ensure the school is getting proper funding. Under this Bill, a failing school would lose all their students, and the parents move them to non-failing schools, and the school would go bust. Ultimately, schools will become over-crowded and all students education will suffer. Donna Parsons, former Education Minister |
| Date | 17:12:25, June 08, 2013 CET | From | Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Give Parents A RIGHT to CHOOSE Act |
| Message | OOC: The argument that politicians make that public schools "need more funding" is outdated b/c in NYC, the city distributes $20 billion per year to the public schools and school standards are still falling. More money with NO COMPETITION just lines the pockets of education bureaucrats. |
| Date | 17:38:46, June 09, 2013 CET | From | Workers' Solidarity Movement | To | Debating the Give Parents A RIGHT to CHOOSE Act |
| Message | OOC: That could just be NYC, though. You're extrapolating one case into an entire argument, which is fallacious. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 163 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 392 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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