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Bill: Religious Schools Standards Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Country Labor 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: July 2163
Description[?]:
| 1) We are in favor of religious schools, and think they play a valuable role in the larger educational system. 2) However, we must not forget that religious schools also teach non-religious subjects, and the government has a responsibility to ensure that all children attending school in Mordusia receive the same quality education in those areas. 3) We interpret this proposal to say that the government has absolutely no control over how religious schools teach their students the beliefs of their faith. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Any religion may set up a school, with no regulations.
Current: Religious schools are not allowed.
Proposed: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:38:01, December 27, 2005 CET | From | National Thomasian Party | To | Debating the Religious Schools Standards Act |
| Message | We agree, I am happy for schools to teach religious subjects. I myself am a comitted christian, but there needs to be regulation in education to ensure that all pupils, no matter what their religion, recieve a good education in all subjects. |
| Date | 19:48:00, December 27, 2005 CET | From | Socialist Front of Mordusia | To | Debating the Religious Schools Standards Act |
| Message | We also agree with this proposal. Religious schools should of course be permitted, but it must also be ensured that they do not serve to indoctrinate the young. Fair and (at least relatively) objective education is important. |
| Date | 20:47:36, December 27, 2005 CET | From | Country Labor Party | To | Debating the Religious Schools Standards Act |
| Message | We disagree with the word "indoctrinate", which we feel has negative connotations when talking about religious schooling. We assume parents send their children to religious schools at least partly to have them taught about their faith, so we would not characterize this as "indoctrination". And the government has no place in the teaching of religious beliefs. Our concern is only that all Mordusian children should attain the same basic skills, such as reading and writing, regardless of the school. |
| Date | 21:40:46, December 27, 2005 CET | From | Unio Liberál daď Ordio Mordusián | To | Debating the Religious Schools Standards Act |
| Message | Agreed. |
| Date | 21:51:48, December 27, 2005 CET | From | Socialist Front of Mordusia | To | Debating the Religious Schools Standards Act |
| Message | We do not believe that all religious schools indoctrinate their students. From far it. But in the past, it has been seen that certain private schools have taught religious intolerance and bigotry. These are, of course, individual incidents which in no way represent religious schools in general. But we must still consider the threat that such school poses to a free country, and to a youth which should be allowed to make its own choices. This is no specific for religion. We have also seen schools that indoctrinated their students into radical political political beliefs. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 514 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 85 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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