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Bill: Education Reform Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist 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: February 2056
Description[?]:
| to nationalize all schools and to make school education obliged. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Current: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Proposed: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: 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.
Current: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Proposed: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:23:08, May 21, 2005 CET | From |  United Blobs | To | Debating the Education Reform Bill |
| Message | No - if people have enough money to send their children to private schools they should have the chance saving us money to put towards other important services. Likewise home schooling allows this. |
| Date | 15:34:06, May 21, 2005 CET | From | Socialist Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Bill |
| Message | I disagree with the fact that only the rich can permit their children to go to certain schools, fearing the difference that may come into existence between public and private schools, despite the heavy regulation. Likewise I do not like the idea of schools where rich children only meet other rich children. They have to learn also other kind of people live in our country. For children it is better to learn they live not alone, but in a society, shools allow this; and people working together work more efficintly and productively, in this matter schools are better too. And we believe people that have enough money so they can afford it themselves to either send their children to private schools, either pay a private teacher at home; can contribute to society far better than by not sending their children to public school: they can contribute through heigtened taxes, which I consider a better manner of contributing. |
| Date | 17:34:04, May 21, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Bill |
| Message | Question: Will school places be allocated or will people be given the choice which school they wish their child to attend, even if all are public? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 161 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 209 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 28 |
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