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Bill: Federal Education Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Freedom Party
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: April 2342
Description[?]:
| We would like to propose a few changes for our education-system: Sexual Education in schools: we need to protect our younger citizens from unwanted pregnancy, if we ignore this we might very well face demographics of a thirld-world country at some point. The teacher's right to discipline children: Allowing local governments to use whatever punishment they see fit is not democratical. Punishment is proportionate to the crime in most democracies for hundreds of years already, hight time for us to catch up. Policy concerning racial segregation in educational institutions. We can't allow local governments to establish laws which are basically against the human rights. It sickens the PFP to see racism tolerated and almost encouraged in such a way. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy concerning racial segregation in educational institutions.
Old value:: Segregation policy is set by local governments.
Current: Segregation is illegal in all educational institutions.
Proposed: Segregation is illegal in all educational institutions.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sexual education in schools.
Old value:: This decision is up to the schools themselves without government regulation.
Current: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Proposed: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:13:51, January 08, 2007 CET | From |  Front de Libèration du Kanjor | To | Debating the Federal Education Act |
| Message | We support Article 1 and 2, and we have stated in the past that no school should ever have the right to seperate just because of a race but it seemed that a certain federalist party in Kanjor never saw that point...shame. We feel that schools should set there own discipline system, "Discipline levels are set by schools." |
| Date | 22:30:33, January 08, 2007 CET | From | National Coalition Party | To | Debating the Federal Education Act |
| Message | We support the bill as a whole for the reasons mentioned by PFP. Discipline measures must not be left for the schools themselves as the risk for abuse is bigger than when there are clear discipline norms set by bureau of education. |
| Date | 00:34:52, January 09, 2007 CET | From | Les Verts du Kanjor | To | Debating the Federal Education Act |
| Message | We support all articles of the bill. We believe that punishment (especially physical punishment) should be the prerogative of the parents, not teachers. We think it is absurd to teach a child that the only way to be respected is to beat others into submission, and the use of physical violence in school is detrimental to a child's learning. |
| Date | 01:31:49, January 09, 2007 CET | From | Front de Libèration du Kanjor | To | Debating the Federal Education Act |
| Message | We would prefer either Article 3 be changed to "Discipline levels are set by schools." or be moved to a seperate bill. If its moved to a seperate bill we will support 1 and 2. |
| Date | 02:22:28, January 09, 2007 CET | From | People's Freedom Party | To | Debating the Federal Education Act |
| Message | We removed article three and will perhaps bring it up in a seperate bill, as there were no other problems with the suggestion reported we can start voting. |
| Date | 04:05:25, January 09, 2007 CET | From | Partie Patriotique de Kanjor | To | Debating the Federal Education Act |
| Message | We oppose these proposals. How can it be more democratiic to take away the right of Provinces and schools to decide upon these matters? Sexual education should not be compulsory in the education system, this takes away the rights of parents to decide how this education should occur. |
| Date | 04:57:24, January 09, 2007 CET | From | Front de Libèration du Kanjor | To | Debating the Federal Education Act |
| Message | Even as a religious party and a strict one at that, Sexual Education is a must for any person entering puberty, we cant always rely on Parents to do the job. If Parents want to home school their children then they can, Sexual Education is important for someone especially entering puberty were AIDS, HIVS, and other diseases can occur without proper direction. The KCTP simply doesnt understand your vision of "Democracy" |
| Date | 05:01:24, January 09, 2007 CET | From | Front de Libèration du Kanjor | To | Debating the Federal Education Act |
| Message | Also look to other countries, more then half of those countries have these Laws. |
| Date | 05:15:23, January 09, 2007 CET | From | Partie Patriotique de Kanjor | To | Debating the Federal Education Act |
| Message | What other countries do is their concern not ours. If parents believe that school based sexual education is warranted, under the current system they can send their children to schools which offers it. Those parents who believe schools should have no part in it, can send them to schools which do not have it. We realise that the KCTP doesn't understand democracy, that is evident from their desire to establish a dictatorial theocratic state and by the means which they use, murder and arson! |
| Date | 12:13:41, January 09, 2007 CET | From | People's Freedom Party | To | Debating the Federal Education Act |
| Message | If the PPK is scared of a theocratic state it doesn't make sense that it opposes this bill, which limits the effect of religious fanatics and obsolete tradition on our laws. Direct democracy is a good thing, but giving authority to local governments in every case without consideration is not for the best of our citizens, as this case shows. Besides, the federal government needs to set a number of guidelines for behaviour to maintain the integrity of our nation. |
| Date | 12:20:35, January 09, 2007 CET | From | People's Freedom Party | To | Debating the Federal Education Act |
| Message | We would also like to point out that a party voting against this act makes itself responsible for all the unwanted teenage-pregnancies and their social and economical effects that plague our country today. |
| Date | 13:19:17, January 09, 2007 CET | From | Partie Patriotique de Kanjor | To | Debating the Federal Education Act |
| Message | We wish to thank the PFP for the implied compliment about our virility. However we do believe it is up to parents to make those decisions. |
| Date | 13:58:00, January 09, 2007 CET | From | Front de Libèration du Kanjor | To | Debating the Federal Education Act |
| Message | "What other countries do is their concern not ours." That is a farce, as you have involved Kanjor in numerous amounts of treaties and other international organizations. |
| Date | 14:09:04, January 09, 2007 CET | From | Partie Patriotique de Kanjor | To | Debating the Federal Education Act |
| Message | That is a different issue, we do not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, what they do within their borders is their business. Using the 'others countries do it so should we] argument is like letting them interfere in our internal affairs. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 49 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 176 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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