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Bill: School Freedoms Bill
Details
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: May 2176
Description[?]:
| Schools should have a greater say in the running of themselves. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sexual education in schools.
Old value:: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Current: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty, but individual students have an opt-out option.
Proposed: This decision is up to the schools themselves without government regulation.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The teacher's right to discipline children.
Old value:: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Current: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Proposed: Discipline levels are set by schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:55:11, January 25, 2006 CET | From | Reform Party | To | Debating the School Freedoms Bill |
| Message | Both are unacceptable. |
| Date | 13:18:11, January 25, 2006 CET | From | Milice | To | Debating the School Freedoms Bill |
| Message | Why? Surely schools, specifically PTA groups, are far better placed to decide what is best than a government in the capital? |
| Date | 15:29:09, January 25, 2006 CET | From |  Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the School Freedoms Bill |
| Message | Support both. |
| Date | 02:08:04, January 26, 2006 CET | From | Democractic Socialist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the School Freedoms Bill |
| Message | Nobody can best make an unacceptable decision. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 33 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 51 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 11 |
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