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Bill: School Discipline
Details
Submitted by[?]: Bachelor 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: January 2215
Description[?]:
| We can live with the present moderate socialization of education, though we are not entirely happy with fully subsidizing all tuition. As long as school choice is available, a private system alongside a public one is acceptable. We would prefer a private system with the government issuing vouchers, so that low income students are given the same educational choices as the wealthier class, but we understand that compromise is necessary. However, we do feel that discipine in schools is important. It is our very strong opinion that corporal punishment in schools does not harm children; rather it strenthens character and enhances the desire to get serious and learn. This is the only provision in the Jacobin bill to which we were vehemently opposed, and we seek to reverse it at this time. In addition, we strongly support actions to instill patiotism and love for our country in our nation's youth. Especially, in the publicly funded schools. Who do they think is giving them this freebie education, anyway? |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Current: Children are not made to sing the national anthem, but are required to show respect when it is played at the commencement of school each day.
Proposed: Children are only made to sing the national anthem on special occasions.
Article 2
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 local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:20:13, April 15, 2006 CET | From | Bachelor Party | To | Debating the School Discipline |
| Message | Suspending and grounding students does not educate them, and does not provide them a true incintive to buckle down and get serious with their studies. A rapping on the backside is proven to do exactly that. |
| Date | 04:16:41, April 18, 2006 CET | From | Party for the Promotion of Pandas | To | Debating the School Discipline |
| Message | 2 votes!!!! No offense man, but Im gonna try to reverse it. I know I wouldnt want MY children bloodied. |
| Date | 12:10:28, April 18, 2006 CET | From | Bachelor Party | To | Debating the School Discipline |
| Message | I hope certainly you don't think I would, either. I have never seen a child bloodied in school, by a teacher using corporal punishment discipline. But what I have seen, many times, in the days before Benjamin Spock, is children straighten up and get serious about their responsbilities and school. I even saw it in myself, and I know it works. For a fact. What I didn't see in those days was the kind of unruly disrespect for teachers and authority in general that we see today. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 117 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 115 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 101 |
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