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Bill: Education reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Centralist Party
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: June 4537
Description[?]:
| Education |
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 entirely voluntary.
Proposed: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Current: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Proposed: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Article 3
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 have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: There is a National Curriculum which all government schools are obliged to follow; non-government schools are fully exempt
Current: There is no National Curriculum; the curriculum is set by the schools themselves.
Proposed: There is a National Curriculum which all schools are obliged to follow.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The teacher's right to discipline children.
Old value:: Discipline levels are set by schools.
Current: No forms of direct discipline are allowed.
Proposed: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:48:33, February 25, 2019 CET | From | Centralist Party | To | Debating the Education reform |
| Message | We believe this reform will benefit all and is not based on economical class. We believe the poorer of society are able to have a good standard of education and not just the rich! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 50 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 212 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 273 |
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