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Bill: Protection of Childhood Freedoms Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Citizens For A Progressive Jakania
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: September 2242
Description[?]:
Children in Jakania are currently subject to the same protections in the workplace as adults, namely none. Factories can and do employ young children as soon as they are capable of working but before they are capable of saying no. It affects their education, it affects their innocence. We propose to end this, and to protect other childhood freedoms. Who should *have* to sing the national anthem when it praises of all things *liberty*? And religion should be a matter for families not for the government to push on children via schools. If families wish to send children to religious schools, that is their choice and right, but if families choose other than a religious school they should have a guarantee that their children will not be forced into observance. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning child labour.
Old value:: Child labour is allowed and it is subjected to the same regulations as adult labour.
Current: Child labour is forbidden.
Proposed: Child labour is forbidden.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are made to sing the national anthem at the commencement of school each day.
Current: Children are only made to sing the national anthem on special occasions.
Proposed: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Current: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 20:54:46, June 15, 2006 CET | From | Jakania Union Party | To | Debating the Protection of Childhood Freedoms Act |
Message | Although we believe parents who don't want school-prayer for their children can enroll their children in schools that do not offer such activity, we can live with the rest of proposed legislation. |
Date | 21:31:56, June 15, 2006 CET | From | Citizens For A Progressive Jakania | To | Debating the Protection of Childhood Freedoms Act |
Message | We believe that this proposal clearly delineates that religious schools will have prayer and others will not - thereby clarifying rather than limiting the decisions of parents. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
no | Total Seats: 49 | |||||
abstain |
Total Seats: 201 |
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