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Bill: Equal Oppurtunities
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dorvish Popular Front
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 2058
Description[?]:
| We feel it is unfair some people should have an unfair advantage in life simply thanks to their parents buying them into better schools. Private schools are the ultimate example of an unfair society as they reward wealth over intelligence and hard work. I know the public school system is not perfect but we shall work together as a country to make it so, rather than have a divided society with the rich having an extremely higher chance of success. |
Proposals
Article 1
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: 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.
Proposed: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:23:18, May 24, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Equal Oppurtunities |
| Message | Yet if people attend private schools, they are still paying taxes to the public school system. Thus, with private schools, the public school system has the same amount of resources per fewer students and is thus better able to improve itself. Furthermore, public schools can learn from private school methods, and vice versa. Private schools benefit both those who use them and those who do not. Banning them is an example of pure envy. Should we ban tutors? Test prep books? All those are examples of students using resources to improve their education "unfairly", even though they unquestionably help society in general. |
| Date | 22:40:03, May 24, 2005 CET | From | Dorvish Popular Front | To | Debating the Equal Oppurtunities |
| Message | I believe that difference is negligable. And if the parents wish to spend money on their childs education why not donate it? Instead of selfishly limiting it to just their child who obviously has a good standard of living as they can afford private schooling, they could help out the less advantaged children. Society must work together to grow equally, not the rich look after their own interests whilst the poor struggle to compete with them. Judge children on performance, not wealth of their parents! |
| Date | 23:56:58, May 24, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Equal Oppurtunities |
| Message | It's hardly a donation when you forcefully take it. The rich parents who otherwise would send their kids to private school would now just hire private tutors, meaning that their kids would be using their own resources AND the government's resources. Either that, or they would have to work less to teach their kids at home. Or worse yet, they would have to move out of urban areas to seek rich suburbs with good public schools, further adding to the problem of urban decay and middle-class flight into suburbia. An end to private schools would mean an end to our cities, sustainable development, and our quality education system. |
| Date | 16:51:02, May 25, 2005 CET | From | Dorvish Popular Front | To | Debating the Equal Oppurtunities |
| Message | You cant just say 'every rich person will do this or that'. And one of the main problems with Dorvik is poor standards of schooling in urban areas and it is there were we wish to improve! Most urban schools are made up of the worse off anyway so that wouldnt have much of an effect. And as I said, the public schools arent perfect but we must work together to make them better, not simply let the rich spend their money on increasing their own prosperity whilst letting the rest of Dorvik suffer! |
| Date | 18:32:31, May 25, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Equal Oppurtunities |
| Message | How will it help our decaying urban areas if the tax-paying population leaves to seek better schools? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 34 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 47 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 14 |
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