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Bill: Improving Schools Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Baltusian Neo-Conservatives
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: December 4270
Description[?]:
| Members, Our children are being build by an immoral school system, far from the god we love. We must repent our sins by rectifying our mistake. Andrew Robertson -Party head. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Current: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Proposed: Children are not made to sing the national anthem, but are required to show respect when it is played at the commencement of school each day.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sexual education in schools.
Old value:: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty, but individual students have an opt-out option.
Current: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty, but individual students have an opt-out option.
Proposed: Schools should not educate students in sexual matters.
Article 3
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: No forms of direct discipline are allowed.
Proposed: Teachers may use corporal punishment at their discretion.
Article 4
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: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Religious schools are not allowed.
Current: Religious schools are allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
Proposed: All schools are required to be religious in nature.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:06:57, September 10, 2017 CET | From | Secularist, Socialist Party of Baltusia | To | Debating the Improving Schools Act |
| Message | Congressperson Robertson, Nether I, nor the vast majority of my party love your god. What about the 51% of children who are from non-religious families? And do you not recognise that forbidding sexual education will lead to far more teenage pregnancies which given your stance on abortions will ruin their lives. Penny Sargent Leader of the Secularist, Socialist Party of Baltusia |
| Date | 18:07:50, September 10, 2017 CET | From | Constitutionalist Alliance | To | Debating the Improving Schools Act |
| Message | DOWN WITH CRAZY FUNDMENTALISM IN CONGRESS!!! |
| Date | 18:13:27, September 10, 2017 CET | From | Baltusian Neo-Conservatives | To | Debating the Improving Schools Act |
| Message | Members, This epidemic of blasphemy MUST NOT be able to fester in our schools, students cursing god in schools should be respectively punished by their teachers, so they become more faithful, good, people. Andrew Robertson -Party head. |
| Date | 18:15:37, September 10, 2017 CET | From | Baltusian International Democratic Party | To | Debating the Improving Schools Act |
| Message | Congressman Roberts, An authoritarian, unconstitutional and bigoted bill at best. Stella DeGraz Acting Leader of the Republicans |
| Date | 23:34:14, September 10, 2017 CET | From | United Democratic Party - Syndicalists | To | Debating the Improving Schools Act |
| Message | This bill is one of the most backwards bills in centuries it disgusts me that you want to brainwash children Augustus Vaniostis |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 66 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 534 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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