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Bill: Secular Schools Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX
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 2052
Description[?]:
| A bill aiming to secularise schools so that children may make spiritual decisions for themselves. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Current: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:53:10, May 14, 2005 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Secular Schools Act |
| Message | As it stands, a public school principal may declare his or her school to be of a particular religious persuasion with no thought to how the actual students feel or will be affected. No one has the right to ram an ideology down your throat, particularly via education when you're young and impressionable. |
| Date | 12:08:53, May 14, 2005 CET | From | Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Secular Schools Act |
| Message | If parents want to send their children to a school that relfects their values, they should have the ability to do so. |
| Date | 12:25:58, May 14, 2005 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Secular Schools Act |
| Message | They do: its called a private school. PUBLIC institutions are also subject to this law. |
| Date | 12:42:35, May 14, 2005 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Secular Schools Act |
| Message | That still doesn't give parents the right to force an ideology on their children. There is no right or wrong ideology, so for parenst to promote a particular one through selectively choosing an institution is unfair on the child and removes their choice. By the time they are old enough to make a free choice, theyve been brainwashed and its too late. |
| Date | 15:17:59, May 14, 2005 CET | From | Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Secular Schools Act |
| Message | Private schools can't be afforded by everyone; it is unfair and unjust to say that you can send your child to a school of your choice, as long as you can afford it. Poor parents should have this ability as well. It is not the place of the state to raise children, it is the place of parents, and that includes choice of religious upbringing. |
| Date | 04:12:22, May 15, 2005 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Secular Schools Act |
| Message | I reiterate my second point again. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 241 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 56 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy has 464 player slots. |
| Random quote: "Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom." - Friedrich Hayek |