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Bill: Education Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamonian Reform 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: January 3844
Description[?]:
| A bill to reform the education system in Telamon by establishing state-run nurseries, schools and higher education facilities. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
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 2
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government does not maintain any forms of higher education.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government leaves development of nurseries to the private sector.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:04:39, May 08, 2015 CET | From | Telamonian Reform Party | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | The Telamon Reform Party believes that it is the responsibility of the state to ensure that all young people receive a high quality education from pre-school age to higher education. Telamon currently has no state-run education facilities whatsoever, leaving our children's education in the hands of profit-driven private corporations. This position must change and the state must start taking responsibility for learning and teaching. Moira Swanson, TRP Spokesperson, Education and Culture |
| Date | 20:22:47, May 09, 2015 CET | From | National Republican Party | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | The State-run educational services are failing around the world. We believe that competition between educational institutions will force them to raise their standards and provide better services, or else they will not be successful. We also believe that parents should be able to choose where to send their child. It's not as though this government has abandoned children - we provide vouchers to all children, ensuring that all get the best education that they can. |
| Date | 20:30:31, May 09, 2015 CET | From | Telamonian Reform Party | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | The use of vouchers only ensures the best education that profit-driven private companies are willing to offer, and the government is forced to pay the price that they set. Rather than spending our nation's finance lining the pockets of the wealthy we should be investing it in state-run education facilities for the benefit of all of our children. Ellis L. Green and the NRP clearly do not believe that they are capable of running a better education system than the private sector! |
| Date | 20:41:20, May 09, 2015 CET | From | National Republican Party | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | You say "profit-driven" as though it were a dirty word. Our system harnesses the natural drive for profit and uses it to help our children. Under our system, parents choose where to direct the voucher money. They will direct it to the schools that provide the best possible education. Competition to reach this status will drive more and more schools to offer better and better services. When the state has a monopoly on the providing of education, there is no competition and individual schools often have no motive to improve and children are trapped in an inert system. The National Republican Party has learned from the mistakes of previous state-dominated school systems and, unlike the Reform Party, have no interest in repeating them! |
| Date | 20:53:11, May 09, 2015 CET | From | Telamonian Reform Party | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | In the context of education, the TRP believes that 'profit' is a dirty word. The aim of schools should be to educate, not to make money. The National Republicans suggest that the current system encourages competition but the corporations that run our schools know that parents have no choice but to send their children somewhere - after all, school attendance is compulsory. Though there may be an element of competition, corporations know that once the top schools have been filled parents have no choice but to send their children to the rest of the establishments on offer no matter how poor these are. And the fact remains - instead of investing all the education budget into schools, the state is investing it straight into the pockets of businessmen who profit at the expense of the taxpayers. The Reform Party would end this corrupt practice and put learning, not money, at the heart of our children's education. |
| Date | 21:09:07, May 09, 2015 CET | From | National Republican Party | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | The state-run system is based on money as well - the money that flows to the teachers' unions and to government officials. We would never allow a few corporations to monopolize our educational sector - we have enforced some of the strictest monopoly-busting laws in Terra. The only system with "no choice" is the public one... the beauty of the private sector, working properly and fairly (with our anti-monopoly laws) is that there is always choice. |
| Date | 21:11:08, May 09, 2015 CET | From | Telamonian Reform Party | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | I would rather my tax money went to trade unions who fight for workers rights than corporations who try to stop them! |
| Date | 21:12:36, May 09, 2015 CET | From | National Republican Party | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | And I would rather that my tax money go directly into the hands of parents fighting for a better education for their children then to government employees who profit from them! |
| Date | 21:15:06, May 09, 2015 CET | From | Telamonian Reform Party | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | At the moment, the money only goes to parents until they are forced, by law, to give it to the NRP's friends in big business! It's a con, and the parents of Telamon know it! |
| Date | 21:24:33, May 09, 2015 CET | From | National Republican Party | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | You would prefer that education is non-compulsory, I take it. There is no con. That's what the parents of Telamon know. And they've shown their support for our policies by re-electing this government time and again. We lost any friends in big business when we cracked down on monopolies. The educational marketplace that we desire is one with many, many competing schools as the supply, and every parent in Telamon, armed with dreams for their children and enough money to make their dreams a reality, as the demand. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 500 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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