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Bill: Corporal Punishment Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Spiritualists' National Union
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 2331
Description[?]:
| Local communities should have the freedom to decide whether corporal punishment is appropriate in their schools or not. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The teacher's right to discipline children.
Old value:: Teachers may use corporal punishment at their discretion.
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 | 15:38:02, December 18, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Corporal Punishment Act |
| Message | This may lead to a situation where parents are denied the choice to send their children to a disciplined school, without taking extreme measures such as moving house. We would support the decision being made at school level as this will give parents a choice where there is demand for disciplined schools. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 40 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 46 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 13 |
| Random fact: Voters have an extra appreciation for bills that actually get passed, so if you want to maximally take profit from your votes, make sure you compromise with others. |
| Random quote: "The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems, the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and religion." - John Maynard Keynes |