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Bill: Education Proposals
Details
Submitted by[?]: Félagsleg Demókrati Partí
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: May 4291
Description[?]:
| The actual education systems is wrong, it's not helping students. This proposals may change a bit the way schools work and help students. Voluntary Education: "Why is this a great idea?" you may ask. Children are always interested in learning new things, it's a fact, but they learn what they are interested in. They should be able to live a good life, a good adolescence, and not pass time "learning" things they are not interested in. Private Higher Education: This won't help to equality, usually this kind of schools are "the best of the best", but we shouldn't allow them. And since we could have a voluntary education, this kind of schools would be pretty useless. Yes public schools, no private schools: Like in Private Higher Education, this won't help in equality and is just the same answer. Discipline from Teachers to Students: Punishments are just a waste of time, expulsions will be useless (especially if schools are voluntary and indepenent), you're just in this case helping the student and not making discipline. |
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 and has to happen at school.
Proposed: Education is entirely voluntary.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Proposed: The government does not maintain any forms of higher education.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Current: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Proposed: The government does not allow private higher education institutions.
Article 4
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 entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Article 5
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: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Proposed: No forms of direct discipline are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:51:09, October 21, 2017 CET | From | People's Populist Front | To | Debating the Education Proposals |
| Message | This bill has some good points about private education, but abolishing compulsory education, higher education and discipline is, no offence, some of the most idiotic ideas I have ever heard |
| Date | 15:18:48, October 21, 2017 CET | From | Félagsleg Demókrati Partí | To | Debating the Education Proposals |
| Message | Well, you can take a look on how schools work, especially with pre-scholar and adolescent grades. Basically, you just memorize things you don't care about to forget about what you learned some weeks later. What's the point then on going to a school with a compulsory education when you can independently learn new things you are interested to? |
| Date | 15:27:29, October 21, 2017 CET | From | Félagsleg Demókrati Partí | To | Debating the Education Proposals |
| Message | I forgot to say that higher schools should not exist at all: after school, if you want to continue learning, you can always study independently, since schools would be voluntary. And there are several ways to improve discipline, but I don't get the point of sending students out of school for a day or more or sending them into the detention room for unfair reasons and pretend that they will learn discipline. You can do simple things like an award system for having a good behaviour in class when they're about 8 years or below, so they can know clearly what they should do and what not without making him feel really bad for a punishment. |
| Date | 21:24:48, October 21, 2017 CET | From | People's Populist Front | To | Debating the Education Proposals |
| Message | If people aren't placed in education at a young age. they are free - free to be exploited. Higher education simply denies professionals the opportunity to develop their skills. Something private study is never going to compensate for. I know it sounds cruel, but having certain restrictions and obligations is a fact of life pal: If totally removed, chaos ensues, and life breaks down. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 386 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 364 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In order for a Cabinet bill to pass, more than half of the legislature must vote for it and all of the parties included in the proposed Cabinet must support it. If your nation has a Head of State who is also the Head of Government, then the party controlling this character must also vote for the bill, since the Head of Government is also a member of the Cabinet. If any of these requirements are not met, the bill will not pass. |
| Random quote: "The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another, no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy." - John Smith |