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Bill: Freedom of Education Act, Part I
Details
Submitted by[?]: Alderdath Rabrati Konciralati Erradikati
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: March 2164
Description[?]:
| Education should be left to the parents of the students involved. If the parents believe that their child would be better suited to homeschooling or private schooling, so be it; it is not the business of the state to compel students to attend public schooling. Freeing people from this bond will allow for more innovation across the board, so that the children of this nation may prosper in years yet to come. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Current: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Proposed: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:21:20, December 28, 2005 CET | From | Kundrati Socialist Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Education Act, Part I |
| Message | We could possibly support optional home-schooling, but not the extension of creeping privatisation within the education system. However, unless the articles are split, we feel obligated to vote against this bill. |
| Date | 09:04:12, December 28, 2005 CET | From | Unio enim si quis Motus Populi | To | Debating the Freedom of Education Act, Part I |
| Message | we simply can't support either. Education is a matter of the public good, not private profitmongering. |
| Date | 18:06:43, December 28, 2005 CET | From | Party of Evil | To | Debating the Freedom of Education Act, Part I |
| Message | We feel it's up to the people involved to decide what kind of education -if any- they wish to give their offspring. Let's have some personal freedom here, people! |
| Date | 18:07:20, December 28, 2005 CET | From | Party of Evil | To | Debating the Freedom of Education Act, Part I |
| Message | Oh, in case you wonder: we support. |
| Date | 18:34:12, December 28, 2005 CET | From | Alderdath Rabrati Konciralati Erradikati | To | Debating the Freedom of Education Act, Part I |
| Message | We would be amenable to a split. |
| Date | 18:39:57, December 28, 2005 CET | From | Kundrati Socialist Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Education Act, Part I |
| Message | We will support this revised bill. PE: There is a difference between freedom and privilege for an elite. |
| Date | 23:22:25, December 28, 2005 CET | From | Union of Work-Shy Elements | To | Debating the Freedom of Education Act, Part I |
| Message | Support. |
| Date | 00:44:01, December 29, 2005 CET | From | Party of Evil | To | Debating the Freedom of Education Act, Part I |
| Message | SP: We support the right of the elite to be privileged. Why else would people work hard to join the elite? |
| Date | 00:45:24, December 29, 2005 CET | From | Alderdath Rabrati Konciralati Erradikati | To | Debating the Freedom of Education Act, Part I |
| Message | To the Labor and Solidarity Union, how is homeschooling a for-profit venture? As far as I know, homeschools are either intra-family or small neighborhood units, which aren't for-profit in any sense of the word. |
| Date | 02:29:16, December 29, 2005 CET | From | Kundrati Socialist Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Education Act, Part I |
| Message | PE: If the elite uses its position in society to unjustly maintain its privileges, by monopolising resources, undermining equal opportunities and generally distorting the chances of social mobility (each of which, we feel, would be a result of the Loony reform of private education), then your “meritocracy” approach falters entirely. To put it another way, it wouldn't matter how "hard" people worked - the elite would be self-perpetuating and have no qualifying standards. |
| Date | 04:46:46, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Alderdath Rabrati Konciralati Erradikati | To | Debating the Freedom of Education Act, Part I |
| Message | Moving to a vote. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 148 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 135 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 22 |
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