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Bill: Education Quality Act of June 2199
Details
Submitted by[?]: Proletariat Revolution Party
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: March 2200
Description[?]:
| With public and private education already subject to to quality checks to ensure that future generations are receiving the education that will give them the knowledge and tools that they need, it is only in the best interests of all our young minds that all schools are regulated. For this reason, religious schools, if they must exist, then they should be regulated to the same degree and prevented from providing a lower quality of education simply because they don't wish to teach according to national standards. Further, fly-by-night religions and cults have no place in the educational world and therefore, should be kept out at all costs. It is for this reason that recognised religions should be the only religions permitted to set up religious schools. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Any religion may set up a school, with no regulations.
Current: Religious schools are not allowed.
Proposed: Religious schools are allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:37:56, March 14, 2006 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Education Quality Act of June 2199 |
| Message | AM RLP must oppose. While we feel that a quality education is essential, we also feel that the defination of qulaity may vary from parent to parent. Education is not like steel making, where the inputs and outputs are easily measurable and quantifiable. Therefore, if a religion feels that more time needs to be devoted to character based education and less to science, that should be the right of the parents to choose such a mix. Further, we have a major issue with the concept of 'recognized' religions. Recognized by whom, one must ask. Christianity was once a non-recognized religion in the major political entity of the day; how do we know that today's 'fly-by-night religions and cults' may be tomorrow's Christianity. |
| Date | 17:03:17, March 14, 2006 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the Education Quality Act of June 2199 |
| Message | Yes, they very well might, but until then, we think it's better to protect the system that is shaping the future generations. These generations will be taking over one day and they need the best quality of education. Yes, character development can still happen, but this would ensure that there is the same national standard so that no matter where a child goes to school, their parent knows that the quality won't be a question. Our other system is already subject to regulation, this would merely round off the last edge of the education system. If a religion is unrecognised, there might be very good reasons. And if religions want to be recognised, then they should make the correct attempts to. |
| Date | 11:16:19, March 15, 2006 CET | From | Front for State Prosperity | To | Debating the Education Quality Act of June 2199 |
| Message | The FSP would support restricting religious schools to only "recognized" religions, but believe that regulating their content would be a needless expense that removes choice for no particular reason. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 372 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 129 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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