We are working on a brand new version of the game! If you want to stay informed, read our blog and register for our mailing list.
Bill: Educational Boom
Details
Submitted by[?]: Protectorate 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 2062
Description[?]:
| Due to the passage of a new ed bill without a significant portion of the Assembly voting we move to restore our education system. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:24:27, May 31, 2005 CET | From | LibCom Party | To | Debating the Educational Boom |
| Message | Put this to the vote then, and we'll see which way the majority goes. |
| Date | 03:02:51, May 31, 2005 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Educational Boom |
| Message | Congrats the left has regained a majority. Lets see how long it stays. |
| Date | 10:45:52, May 31, 2005 CET | From | Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Educational Boom |
| Message | apologies for absence from last vote, maybe we can fix this brief problem now. |
| Date | 14:59:09, May 31, 2005 CET | From | Radical Centrists | To | Debating the Educational Boom |
| Message | We'll support. |
| Date | 21:14:45, May 31, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Educational Boom |
| Message | The RC, which had previously stated its support for only a limited number of highly regulated private schools, is now for further deregulating private schooling? What changed to make this classist proposal suddenly more palatable? |
| Date | 15:40:45, June 01, 2005 CET | From | Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Educational Boom |
| Message | Its in interesting fact that private schools in europe have higher paid teachers, better educated and qualified teachers, produce more knowledgeable students and also manage to do that while still incorporating students who cannot afford to pay full price. |
| Date | 15:48:31, June 01, 2005 CET | From | Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Educational Boom |
| Message | private schools are hardly the supporters of the class system that they used to be, (except in england's case where a big part of the class system is education). it is dubious to say that a class system will not exist if there are only public schools. There are some public schools that are going to be better than others at educating and those schools will get a reputation for the education they provide, likewise people will know which schools have lower performance. A public school system will not remove the class system in an age where education is one of the largest determiners of how someone can make their money. Blaming private schools for promoting a class system is merely a convenient scapegoat tactic to justify why many public schools are unsuccessful. |
| Date | 10:52:30, June 02, 2005 CET | From | Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Educational Boom |
| Message | Furthermore, any restrictions placed on schools to maintain some balance would be flawed. For example, passing a law to the effect that only those who live in a certain area can be educated at school x will make problems worse becuase wealthy people will move to the area where the schools are the best, creating areas that are predominantly wealthy. |
| Date | 18:12:08, June 02, 2005 CET | From | Radical Centrists | To | Debating the Educational Boom |
| Message | ooc: Er, I think that was an unfortunate typo on my part ! IC: We remain opposed to this degree of private education. |
| Date | 21:35:08, June 02, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Educational Boom |
| Message | That boom they're associating with this bill would be our education system imploding on itself. |
subscribe to this discussion - unsubscribe
Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 36 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 64 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: The Real-Life Equivalents Index is a valuable resource for finding out the in-game equivalents of real-life cultures, languages, religions, people and places: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6731 |
| Random quote: “Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.” --H.L. Mencken |