We are working on a brand new version of the game! If you want to stay informed, read our blog and register for our mailing list.
Bill: Education Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Covenanters (IA)
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: December 2203
Description[?]:
| A bill to introduce essential reforms for education in the Holy Luthori Empire. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Current: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Proposed: Only recognised religions may set up religious schools, with no regulations.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Current: Children are made to sing the national anthem at the commencement of school each day.
Proposed: Children are only made to sing the national anthem on special occasions.
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: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Proposed: Discipline levels are set by schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:37:28, March 20, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Tory Party | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | Uh, nay on all counts 'cept article 2. |
| Date | 14:41:49, March 20, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | I thought you approved of discipline in schools? That's why you championed the introduction of home schooling, because there was no discipline in schools (I wouldn't send my son to a school without corporal punishment: there'd be widespread bullying in such a school and the bullies would go unpunished!) |
| Date | 14:54:41, March 20, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Tory Party | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | Good point. I therefore now only oppose articles 1 and 3. |
| Date | 14:56:32, March 20, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | Article one, fair enough: you are a Tory. Why would you, therefore, oppose article three? |
| Date | 14:57:24, March 20, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | Article one (free nurseries) removed. The article three mentioned is no article two (national anthem). |
| Date | 14:59:08, March 20, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Tory Party | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | What are "regulations"? They sound ominous. |
| Date | 17:35:24, March 20, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | They do. That's why my articles say "with no regulations". |
| Date | 18:34:39, March 20, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Tory Party | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | On the other hand, 'no regulations' sounds rather too like anarchy... |
| Date | 03:17:55, March 21, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | Anarchy is laws without leaders, not the popular mythconception of lawlessness. |
| Date | 08:49:49, March 21, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | There would be no anarchy in unregulated church schools. Regulations turn "independent" schools into carbon copies of the failing state schools. Deregulation leads to diversity, giving parent more choice. Few would send their children to anarchic schools. |
| Date | 10:56:08, March 21, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Tory Party | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | LGP - an-archy. an = not. Archos = power, rule, law etc. |
| Date | 08:41:45, March 22, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | No power, as in no leaders. |
| Date | 08:46:02, March 22, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | Anyway: we have a straight choice between 'strict regulations' (ie carbon copies of failing state schools) and 'no regulations'. There is no middle ground 'mild regulations to prevent the employment of nonces, protect children, etc' but these establishments aren't above the law so that goes without saying. |
subscribe to this discussion - unsubscribe
Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 322 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 178 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 250 |
| Random fact: If you are likely to be logging in to Particracy with the same IP address as another player with an active account, please inform Moderation on the forum. Otherwise your account could be inactivated on suspicion of multi-accounting. |
| Random quote: "Colonialism or imperialism, as the slave system of the West is called, is not something that is just confined to England or France or the United States. The interests in this country are in cahoots with the interests in France and the interests in Britain. It's one huge complex or combine, and it creates what's known not as the American power structure or the French power structure, but an international power structure. This international power structure is used to suppress the masses of dark-skinned people all over the world and exploit them of their natural resources." Malcolm X |