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Bill: F-105: Freedom of Education Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federal Heritage Party of Hutori
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 4267
Description[?]:
| Article 1 Upon this bill's passage private Secondary (High School) and Post-Secondary (College) educational institutions have the right to be religious in nature if they so chose. This bill will not apply to primary (K-8) educational institutions. Article 2 With regards to Secondary institutions the choice to attend a religious secondary institution must come from the student that will be attending. The choice can not be made for them by a parent or legal guardian. Article 3 Regulation will be restricted to the treatment of the students and the core educational curriculum. The Ministry of Education and Culture will not interfere with religious curriculum but, will make certain that core education such as science, mathematics, luthori and history are in line with national standards. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Religious schools are not allowed.
Current: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Proposed: Religious schools are allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Current: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:17:16, August 30, 2017 CET | From | Federal Heritage Party of Hutori | To | Debating the F-105: Freedom of Education Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I hereby open this proposal up to debate. Senator Janet Beckman (F-AD) Federalist Senate Leader |
| Date | 07:26:43, August 31, 2017 CET | From | National Progress Party | To | Debating the F-105: Freedom of Education Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I think everybody in that room already know that we are viseraly against the very idea of a religious so we will obviously vote against this bill. But, further than that, we also have some concern about the provision that are in that bill. First of all, the law state that only recognised religion will be allow to set up religious school but, the law doesn't specify what religion are considered ''recognised''. It would be great if the Federalist could add some specifications about this. Secondly, we also have a proble with the fact that the government won't interfere at all in the religious curriculum. I think we should at least verify that the religious class doesn't teach illegal things to the students. Like for exemple, a religious schoold that would teach its students that they must kill the non-believers in order to be love by god should be stopped. -Rose Davies Minister of Education and Culture |
| Date | 01:38:34, September 01, 2017 CET | From | Federal Heritage Party of Hutori | To | Debating the F-105: Freedom of Education Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the NPP for contributing to this debate and would like to invite them to work with us to arrive at a reasonable compromise. With that I would like to ask of Minister Davies and her NPP colleagues as to why they are opposed to religious education? The NPP has claimed in the past that students are ill-equipped to handle the intricacies of religion but, honestly this doesn't seem to logically follow. The students in question are high schoolers and college students which deal with some of the most intricate and difficult subjects known to Terra. So then is Hosianism more difficult than calculus? I would understand if the objected to public schools being religious but, again that is not the case we are talking about private schools which are completely optional. I could even understand it if the NPP objected on the grounds of lack of student choice but, that too has been addressed. As for Ms. Davies questions I understand her concerns but, recognized religions would simply be religious organization that are not classified by the government as being a terrorist organization or a cult. So it would be recognition by negation. This was actually meant as a safeguard against Ms. Davies second objection. However, to further address that concern I would like to pose to Ms. Davies another question. What religion promotes the killing of other humans as a way to be loved or to become closer to God? Senator Janet Beckman (F-AD) Federalist Senate Leader |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 162 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 323 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 120 |
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