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Bill: CPL Education Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist 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: October 4736
Description[?]:
| We should have a centralised, free, public education system that works for everyone. Private schools should not exist because education is a common good that cannot be influenced by capitalists, anti-conformists, religious fanatics or by some sort of distant elites. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Charter schools must have a specific focus.
Current: Only non-profit organizations may establish charter schools.
Proposed: Charter schools are not allowed.
Article 2
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 3
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Current: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Proposed: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on political education
Old value:: The Government requires all secondary school students to receive a basic political education.
Current: The Government leaves political education policy to local governments.
Proposed: The Government requires all secondary school students to receive a political education that is biased towards the government.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside unregulated private establishments.
Current: The government leaves the pre-school education policy to local governments.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Current: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Proposed: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on selective schools
Old value:: Selective schools are allowed.
Current: Selective schools are allowed.
Proposed: Selective schools are not allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:19:03, April 04, 2020 CET | From | Socialist Party | To | Debating the CPL Education Reform |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Due to the thickness of the reform, we'll lay our arguments article by article so that are positions will seem much clearer. Article 1 - If those independent schools have teachers and personal who work for the community and not for private individuals, then why don't they work for the state? We believe everyone should be equal, have the same chances and belong to the same types of schools. We don't know it, but behind those schools, there is always a will for profit, a will to create schools that are different from the public ones. Article 2 - Homeschooling cannot be correctly regulated, does not allow the children to play with each other. Also, it can favour a certain type of elitism. Article 3 - The poor people have also the right to go to school! I met Angela, who is 19 years old. And she told me her parents can't pay for her tuition because they're not rich enough. These policies are destroying the dreams of young people and have to come to an end. There is money for the bankers, for the traders, for the multinationals so there is also money for our people! Article 4 - The current lessons of political education that are taught are already biased and are showing a vision of the world that is the same as the right and far-right in this parliament. The textbooks never talk about the benefits of communism but always about the supposed anti-democratic communist regimes and never insists on how the right-wing reactionary and imperialist doctrine is destroying the world. These textbooks look like they are made by right-wing politicians. That will change with us. Article 5 - The arguments are always the same as the ones used for the justification of article 1. Private nurseries will be nationalised and will work for the people instead of working for people who are looking for profits with our children. The education is at the core of the communist program and we want a centralised, regulated system that is the fruit of the will of the people. Article 6 - Private schools are like private nurseries: they are looking for profits. We can't really control private schools totally. We are not sure those institutions are promoting social mix instead of class-segregation. We only need secular and national schools. Article 7 - We want to give the same opportunities to everyone and selective schools are a form of oppression. All poor people simply are not dumb but live in poor conditions, are suffocating under the capitalist system and cannot develop their full potential. The children who have bad grades should not be discriminated against but encouraged. It is not their fault if they have bad grades, but the fault of society and the capitalist system that we want to bring down. Unity must prevail. |
| Date | 23:32:27, April 04, 2020 CET | From | Common Wealth Party - CWP | To | Debating the CPL Education Reform |
| Message | Mr Speaker, We support the majority of proposals. The majority of laws should be taken for granted. However, we cannot work with everything, such as the biased political education as well as the proposal on the selection schools. But for the rest we will do everything to implement it. Because we don't agree with Articles 1, 4 and 7 we decided to abstain |
| Date | 23:45:23, April 04, 2020 CET | From | Nebular Luthorian Party | To | Debating the CPL Education Reform |
| Message | As we disagree with article 3, 6 and 7 we will abstain, we are open to a more minor reform in the future to improve our education system. |
| Date | 01:45:39, April 05, 2020 CET | From | The Peoples’ Communist Party | To | Debating the CPL Education Reform |
| Message | Mr Speaker, we disagree with articles 2, 4, 5, and 7. We understand and respect your reasoning for implementing these policies, but we will be abstaining. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 18 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 82 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 50 |
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