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Bill: NPH Is Smarter Than You, But Maybe Less So If We Reform Education
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free White Castle and The People Party
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: March 2167
Description[?]:
| Let's get out education system out of the gutter and get our Luthori's children on the path to success. |
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.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Current: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Proposed: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Current: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Proposed: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government leaves development of nurseries to the private sector.
Current: The government leaves the pre-school education policy to local governments.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Current: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Proposed: There is a free public education system and a small number of private schools, which are heavily regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The teacher's right to discipline children.
Old value:: Discipline levels are set by schools.
Current: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Proposed: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:22:57, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Seosavists Republican party | To | Debating the NPH Is Smarter Than You, But Maybe Less So If We Reform Education |
| Message | ok |
| Date | 22:51:34, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Redneck Party | To | Debating the NPH Is Smarter Than You, But Maybe Less So If We Reform Education |
| Message | Never |
| Date | 04:55:51, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the NPH Is Smarter Than You, But Maybe Less So If We Reform Education |
| Message | Yes. |
| Date | 09:48:20, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the NPH Is Smarter Than You, But Maybe Less So If We Reform Education |
| Message | Market regulation is completely incompatible with our free market ideals. |
| Date | 22:56:28, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the NPH Is Smarter Than You, But Maybe Less So If We Reform Education |
| Message | We're against 3, but besides that we're fine. Also, DUP, you're talking as if our children are items to be sold! Education has NOTHING to do with the free market! It has to do with the future of our nation! |
| Date | 23:03:00, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the NPH Is Smarter Than You, But Maybe Less So If We Reform Education |
| Message | Home schooling and overbearing regulations will not help. |
| Date | 06:12:19, January 06, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the NPH Is Smarter Than You, But Maybe Less So If We Reform Education |
| Message | It is mainly those of the religious persuassion that takes advantage of homeschooling. |
| Date | 09:28:00, January 06, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the NPH Is Smarter Than You, But Maybe Less So If We Reform Education |
| Message | We'd accept church schooling (Sunday School) but not home schooling. Regulating the independent education sector will turn our greatest public schools into carbon copies of our failing state schools. No thanks: I don't want my kids following the 'National Curriculum'! |
| Date | 09:31:39, January 06, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the NPH Is Smarter Than You, But Maybe Less So If We Reform Education |
| Message | Before those from America respond, a translation: English: State School. American: Public School. English: Public School. American: Private School. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 337 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 413 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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