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Bill: Public Schools Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Tirgith Populus Party
Status[?]: passed
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 2178
Description[?]:
| The government should provide some schooling to give even its lowest class citizens a chance to succed in life. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for everyone
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: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:38:23, January 29, 2006 CET | From |  Liberty Party | To | Debating the Public Schools Act |
| Message | The lowest class children already have a chance to succeed in life, they get vouchers like everyone else. What you are actually doing is imposing state education (i.e., bad schooling) on those who are too poor to escape. In other words, this bill will actually reduce the quality of education for the lowest class citizens. Why do you suppose that in places where state schools and private schools exist side by side, that anyone who can afford to not send their children to a state school will gladly spend lots of money on top of the taxes they already pay in order to save their children from state education? Since private schools exist at a range of prices, a voucher system opens a wider range of school options to poorer families (since the marginal cost of sending a child to a better school is lower under an all-private, all-voucher system than it is under a state school system). |
| Date | 04:33:52, January 29, 2006 CET | From | People's Equality Party Of Trigunia | To | Debating the Public Schools Act |
| Message | I have changed my stance, I now believe in private eduction, but it must be paid for by the state. Allowing the goverment to teach our children is allowing the powers that be(and to be, Socialist or not) sway thier minds however they please.We believe ideology has no place in a school curriculium, including religion. While this is our stance, we want the people themselves to decide whether they agree, and hopefully, they'll agree with us. We put our faith into the people, and only the people. |
| Date | 07:06:36, January 29, 2006 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Public Schools Act |
| Message | We're pleased to be able to find common ground with PEPOT on this issue. We feel that the current policy not only provides a better quality of education for our young, and more efficiently, but at least as importantly prevents the state intervening in ideology (whether it is socialism, or pandering to a revered state leader, or the imposition of state religion). |
| Date | 15:10:16, January 29, 2006 CET | From | Tirgith Populus Party | To | Debating the Public Schools Act |
| Message | Only certin schools would except the vouchers given by the state, most likley the worst schools who cannot fill there classes otherwise. If there were some public schools this would allow the state to give benifits to teachers increasing the likeliness that one would take a job as a teacher. The state would also be able to provide all of the needed materials as a private school running of coupons could not. Private education paid for by the state is public education. If you're getting it from the government it's public. Ideology is thought by the individual teachers. The teachers put in their beliefs because they teach the way they think. If the we were a communist state, and a teacher was pro free-market s/he would teach pro free-market. Private schools could still exist for those who can afford to go there, or go there for prestiege, but the government can eliminate the need by setting up successful public schools. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 363 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 192 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Real-life places should not be referenced in Particracy. |
| Random quote: "It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver." - Niccolo Machiavelli |