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Bill: School Choice Act.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Mordusia First!
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: October 4290
Description[?]:
| This bill will improve the education system dramatically and everyone will have access to quality education across Mordusia. Article 1 ensures that our nation’s youth are actually receiving an education rather than playing video games at home. Employers need to know that whoever they’re going to employ have actually been educated by qualified people. Article 2 reduces the compulsory age of schooling to 16 (roughly Grade 10) providing that they have an apprenticeship or a paying job. This will allow various young people to have the ability to go out and get apprenticeships and learn practical skills that they will need to advance their careers. We are currently having a skills shortage amongst the blue-collar industries. If we want a successful economy, apprenticeships will improve that and allow the current rapidly growing middle class to grow even more. Article 3 allows parents to choose the schools best for their children rather than having to force their child to go to a school base don district. Using the school voucher system, every school will be privatised and schools will compete to attract parents to send their children to their schools. The vouchers will cover 90% of the costs which will allow every child to have access to a quality education. The competition between schools will allow results and the quality of education to improve thus allowing a better education system than the current one. Steven Wilkinson Minister of Education and Culture |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Current: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Proposed: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Proposed: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The age until which students, if education were to be compulsary, are required to be educated (limited between 16 and 21).
Old value:: 18
Current: 17
Proposed: 16
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:38:56, October 15, 2017 CET | From | Party for Mordusia | To | Debating the School Choice Act. |
| Message | We do not support any of the proposed changes. This will be a huge step backwards. Emily Waters PfM Candidate for Education and Culture |
| Date | 04:57:31, October 15, 2017 CET | From | The Mordusian Worker's Party | To | Debating the School Choice Act. |
| Message | We will not be support thing. Article 1 is fine as is, same with Article 2. We are impartial with regards to Article 3. |
| Date | 11:26:48, October 15, 2017 CET | From | Communist Party | To | Debating the School Choice Act. |
| Message | We do not support the proposals. |
| Date | 14:30:57, October 15, 2017 CET | From | Communist Party | To | Debating the School Choice Act. |
| Message | Why are you so obsessed with handing over tax payers money to private companies and CEO's? Why are you not supporting civil service and talking about issues that really matter to our communities? |
| Date | 10:50:26, October 16, 2017 CET | From | Mordusia First! | To | Debating the School Choice Act. |
| Message | We are not handing over money to private companies and CEOs and our communities are unhappy with the current education system. We are working with communities to form policies that will benefit them, their wishes and our future. Need I remind you that Sammodra has one of the world’s highest unemployment rates, and looking at recent electoral results- they have turned to the Tea Party for hope and success. - President Grumsworth |
| Date | 11:08:18, October 16, 2017 CET | From | Communist Party | To | Debating the School Choice Act. |
| Message | And how is privatisation going to fix unemployment? You do know that profit needs to be made, unless you are willing to spend more money per pupil than we do now in order to make it profitable for private interests? Also the voucher system WILL hand over money to the private sector as the private school company is then able to claim money for the child from the state. Why don't you accept that it is right to have a public school system as well? Its far more cost efficient and can be much more easily reformed to improve results. David Honnor Leader of the MSP |
| Date | 16:06:59, October 18, 2017 CET | From | Rationalist Party | To | Debating the School Choice Act. |
| Message | The Rationalist Party strongly denounces this bill, it hurts underprivileged children by removing them the guarantee of an available schooling enviornment. This is simply going to cause more discrimination against the poor, especially with no provision requiring that these private schools do not discriminate by economic standing. Not only that, less compulsory schooling leads to a less educated populace. An uneducated populace cannot be expected to understand what they are voting for! |
| Date | 20:59:14, October 18, 2017 CET | From | Mordusia First! | To | Debating the School Choice Act. |
| Message | People of the Congress, As the MSP brought up, many private organisations want profit to be made. Now under the private school choice system, schools must compete against each other to attract parents; because they mean money. But the thing is, the parents are concerned about the future of their children so they look for the schools with the best educational standards. This means that if the schools don't invest into their educational programs and teaching resources, they don't get their money. Effectively this competition continuously raises standards in every school because profit is an incentive to raise standards, much like businesses do. Now does that explain your question, Mr. Honnor? Steven Wilkinson Minister of Education and Culture |
| Date | 00:11:42, October 19, 2017 CET | From | Communist Party | To | Debating the School Choice Act. |
| Message | Profit doesn't improve the schools accessibility or standards. Where on earth id your evidence, once again Mr Wilkinson? Your party is obsessed with money and protecting those with it, whilst asking everyone else to foot the bill. Do you understand that children in selective, private education are actually negatively impacted? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/selective-grammar-schooling-negative-impact-uk-children-pisa-oecd-global-experts-anxiety-bullying-a7691481.html Furthermore, there is no evidence to suggest a state school system is ineffective - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/11/05/are-private-schools-better-than-public-schools-new-book-says-no/?utm_term=.fb197aa46897. So again, I have to ask these questions. Why are the Tea Party so hell bent on destroying the state and lowering life chance for our children? They may think they are doing the right thing, but has evidence shows, they are not. David Honnor Leader of the MSP |
| Date | 23:25:35, October 19, 2017 CET | From | Liberal Party | To | Debating the School Choice Act. |
| Message | We will not support this bill. |
| Date | 06:59:20, October 20, 2017 CET | From | Mordusia First! | To | Debating the School Choice Act. |
| Message | Mr. Honnor, Our public school system is failing horribly and a switch to the school choice system will improve our education standards: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/heres-why-nongovernment-schools-work-better/news-story/2bb048b548d706d1ba6e2fb2291cc714 The fact is that some public schools are decent but that is only because they receive much more funding than every other school. We cannot fund he current school system to “improve resources and improve teacher training programs” like you say because YOU are the ones that have put our nation into debt, YOU are the ones that have raised taxes for everyone, so that they cannot afford anything and YOU have run our nation into the ground. Our once prosperous economy is now crumbling, our people are slowly getting poorer and our nation is no longer great. The people have turned to the Tea Party for freedom and rejoice that occured during the past 20 years and we will continue fighting for the people. I will put this bill to a vote for the sake of our nation on behalf of my Ministry. My message to every party; voting against this bill will be the downfall of your parties, the voters will decide on who will truly improve our country through their ballots. Steven Wilkinson Minister of Education and Culture |
| Date | 14:38:16, October 20, 2017 CET | From | Communist Party | To | Debating the School Choice Act. |
| Message | The economy is growing and is larger thanks to the government investing in education. We are not in debt but we do have a small deficit. We have had years of surpluses, time you understood the concept of debt and deficit being different. We intend on raising more money in the future to expand spending and improve our comprehensive state schooling. One final point congress, we increased taxes on those earning the most. Most lower income citizens have seen their income taxation fall or they don't pay income tax at all. If you earn less than 30,000 MRD you was taken out of tax under our taxation plans. Your attacks are fundamentally incorrect and show the true face of your disdain for our people. David Honnor Leader of the MSP |
| Date | 19:56:00, October 20, 2017 CET | From | Populist Party of Mordusia | To | Debating the School Choice Act. |
| Message | This is outrageous, schooling should be left for the the government to control, |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 313 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 437 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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