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Bill: Independent Student Thought Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: AM Populist Social Democrats
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 2334
Description[?]:
| Whereas, We feel as if we are not allowing our students to think for themselves in some areas, and Whereas, these areas include the punishment of creativity as well as the forced singing of the national anthem, We hereby propose that student creativity be promoted by schools over pure practical knowledge and that students not be required to sing the national anthem. Note that this does not preclude playing the national anthem at special events, but only that no punishment will come to those who refuse to sing it, so long as they are not disruptive. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are only made to sing the national anthem on special occasions.
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 never made to sing the national anthem.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: invalid choice
Current: There is a National Curriculum which all government schools are obliged to follow; non-government schools are partially exempt.
Proposed: invalid choice
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:47:01, December 24, 2006 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Independent Student Thought Bill |
| Message | We would have been happy to use the "but are required to show respect" option on the national anthem, but that would have it sung every day rather than continuing to have it sung on special occasions only. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 20 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 55 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 124 |
| Random fact: The Real-Life Equivalents Index is a valuable resource for finding out the in-game equivalents of real-life cultures, languages, religions, people and places: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6731 |
| Random quote: "One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings." - Franklin Thomas |