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Bill: Student Right Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: MLTP (The Resistance)
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: June 2077
Description[?]:
| Students in the schools of Lodamun are subject to the same rights that any other citizen of Lodamun has. The above said, the use of physical violence as a means of punishment is hence banned. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The teacher's right to discipline children.
Old value:: Discipline levels are set by schools.
Current: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
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 | 16:30:58, July 04, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Student Right Act |
| Message | Opposed. Taking a legitimate last resort means of punishment away from education is unethical. Allow the schoolks to decide. If parents opppose corporal punishment then they would have (under the freedom of education that this house has so recently corrupted) sent their children elsewhere. But now we see the start of ther slippery slope. The government has removed choice from the parents so it has to start defining every little detail of how schools are run. Eventually I suppose we will have a law requiring that no more than 36 and no less than 28 peas are presented to a child on a plate when it is given its compulsory meal at 12:07. No. Get the government back out of the schools. |
| Date | 18:54:07, July 04, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Student Right Act |
| Message | Numerous medical studies have shown that using corporal punishment are a setback to the growth of the child and may cause emotional and psychological problems in the future. |
| Date | 18:54:35, July 04, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Student Right Act |
| Message | ((Forgot to say I support this.)) |
| Date | 19:40:27, July 04, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Student Right Act |
| Message | Experience of life has also shown that not instilling a sense of responsibility and an idea of social imits creates Chavs. |
| Date | 22:06:39, July 04, 2005 CET | From |  National People's Gang | To | Debating the Student Right Act |
| Message | The Adams Family does not have a monopoly (yet) on life experience. Apparently it does have a monopoly of puerile abuse. |
| Date | 23:17:43, July 04, 2005 CET | From | Democractic Socialist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the Student Right Act |
| Message | You beat me to the punch line. Supported. |
| Date | 00:00:24, July 05, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Student Right Act |
| Message | Opposed, not on the basis of suport of corporal punishment, but on the basis that the government has no right to be legislating in this area. |
| Date | 01:10:56, July 05, 2005 CET | From | Democractic Socialist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the Student Right Act |
| Message | Parents can't always choose what school their child attends. There isn't open enrollment with an unlimited choice of schools everywhere. Students have the right not to be beaten into submission by their "mentors", and parents have the right not to force them through that. |
| Date | 21:30:27, July 05, 2005 CET | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the Student Right Act |
| Message | Do the other areas of education still left to actual educators rather than legislators also see their demise fast approaching? |
| Date | 22:23:44, July 05, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Student Right Act |
| Message | @DSP Parents could choose until the Restoration of Education (as badly misnamed act as there ever was) was passed. This act removed choice from the parents, set up the government as the arbiter of which school your child will attend. Prior to this, the student received vouvchers and could choose freely from a wide range of educational opportunities. As was noted above, this is just the next step in the government determining every tiny little aspect of education. We expect the next bill to require that all students wear Blue Mao suits to school. For those who believe that parents should have control on the education of their children, stop this totalitarian erosion of choice here. Do not allow it to continue. |
| Date | 02:20:44, July 06, 2005 CET | From | MLTP (The Resistance) | To | Debating the Student Right Act |
| Message | I'm waiting to make sure the CCF and MLP to approve before I bring this to vote. |
| Date | 01:31:29, July 07, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Student Right Act |
| Message | We still beleieve the schools and the parents should be the people to decide this, not the government. |
| Date | 18:02:51, July 07, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Student Right Act |
| Message | Borderline. We will tend to supprot individual schools' right tod ecide on matters of prayer, sexual educaiton etc. But the issue of freedom from violence goes beyond schools. So: yes on this one, becuase allowing assault is not only an educational issue, but an issue for society as a whole. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 240 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 144 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 66 |
| Random fact: Alduria, Rildanor and Lourenne all have Canrilaise (French) cultures. |
| Random quote: "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mahatma Gandhi |