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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 15 2009, 11:38 PM (390 Views) | |
| Inevitable | Aug 15 2009, 11:38 PM Post #1 |
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I believe that a good education is not a right of all children; it is a necessity. While I acknowledge that it is unlikely that I will achieve my true goal of eliminating Private Education, and the class boundries it enforces, I can at least hope to ensure that everyone gets the same education across the board. Previous legislation has been enacted to try and ensure this, but I now intend to go one step further. Under this legislation, firstly, it will be considered cruelty to prevent a child from attending schooling between the ages of 4 and 16 (with some leeway granted to accommodate the start and end of school years), unless there is a medical reason why they cannot. This does not include school suspension periods and total school expulsion (though the child will be required to attend a different school in its stead). It should be noted at this point that schools provide valuable opportunities for children to interact with others of their age group. This helps to accommodate valuable social skills that are necessary for later life. As such, Home Schooling will not be considered a viable alternative to attending schools, and therefore illegal under this legislation. Secondly, the Education Standardisation Act will be rendered applicable to all education establishments (that deal with the age-groups where the Education Standardisation Act is applicable) regardless of whether or not they’re public or private. This will ensure that employers will be able to know for certain what a potential employee has learned regardless of where they were educated. Note that any school may still offer subjects outside those defined in the Education Standardisation Act as additionals. Thirdly, funding for Public Schools shall be increased to place them nearer the level of service offered by Private Schools. This will include providing funding for schools to employ a transport service to reach pupils in its area. In summary, this legislation renders school education compulsory and ensures that all schools teach the same subjects. |
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| Commoncold0 | Aug 15 2009, 11:41 PM Post #2 |
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*makes a few generic protests and then walks off to the Commons bar for some soon-to-be cheap ale* PS: Public schools are private schools. Change it to state schools. |
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| Inevitable | Aug 15 2009, 11:48 PM Post #3 |
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Only in the UK, and that's because they stole the term and use it inaccuratly. Also, the Commons Bar has a 50% Kitten Tax. |
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| DynamoJax | Aug 16 2009, 12:16 AM Post #4 |
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17th and 20th PM of Ostentia.
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The bill, which does have some good intentions, will likely run afoul of the Constitution as set forth in Article IX, quoted fully below for good reference (bolded text indicates clauses of which the bill comes into potentially direct conflict):
To be frank and direct, the problem of the bill lies in these two sections. Italic text is my own reasoning as to why, bolded text is emphasis (mine).
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| Inevitable | Aug 16 2009, 12:20 AM Post #5 |
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Apparently it's not, but which part do you mean anyway? |
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| DynamoJax | Aug 16 2009, 12:34 AM Post #6 |
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See above post. |
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| DMHowe | Aug 16 2009, 09:12 AM Post #7 |
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*points out this bill technically makes it a "cruelty" to expell or suspend a child* *leaves* |
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| Commoncold0 | Aug 16 2009, 10:40 AM Post #8 |
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Oh, and what about people who live in remote areas and cannot realistically make it to and from school each day? I think there might also be an issue with Article IX.f. as well. |
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| Inevitable | Aug 16 2009, 11:04 AM Post #9 |
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Brief IRL comparison: A lot of countries, including the UK and the USA have compulsory education acts and it's only in some cases of the latter that home schooling is permitted. Anyway, that's not reasoning, so I'll say this instead: It's very difficult to talk about rights when dealing with children. On the one hand, we can say they should be given the choice to do whatever they want, but if you ask any child whether or not they want to go to school, what do you think they'll say? No, children are not mentally mature enough to make the choice. So we move onto the role of guardian. If the parent/guardian decides not to send their children to school, are they not depriving them of the right to education? Should this not be considered a crueltly? Especially as it will hugely damage the child's job prospects in later life, as well as encouraging child labour. As for Home Schooling, I stand by what I said: It limits social growth of the child and certainly can't ensure that a proper level of education is met.
Though I find it unlikely that anyone would be incapable of attending school, perhaps funding for school bus systems/or necessary alternatives should be employed. Adding this and DMHowe's point now. |
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| Commoncold0 | Aug 16 2009, 11:36 AM Post #10 |
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Water down the bill then. Give the authorities the right to compel parents to send their children to school (except in cases where there is a medical or geographical reason) UNLESS it can be proven that the education they are recieving at home meets at least the minimum standards of state education. EDIT: You can't bus people everywhere. Also, I've just thought about another issue - what do we do about travellers? |
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| Inevitable | Aug 16 2009, 12:22 PM Post #11 |
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No, because that still doesn't take into account the fact that what's written on a school syllabus is not all you learn in school. How can Home Schooling ever hope to replicate what a child will learn about social interactions in school? This is just as important as knowing how to do maths or whatever. Also, it doesn't specify buses, meaning that if someone is really out of the way, a sort of taxi service can be provided. Although, again, I don't think Ostentia is big enough to mean that. And I'll think a little about Travellers. |
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| Commoncold0 | Aug 16 2009, 12:45 PM Post #12 |
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By out of the way, I am literally talking about people living on the tops of mountains etc. You don't need to go to school to develop social interactions, and the social interactions you develop at school are not necessarily healthy. If a parent was deliberately preventing a child from having any contact with the outside world, then that would probably be a case for social services anyway. |
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| DMHowe | Aug 16 2009, 12:48 PM Post #13 |
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I agree. *hates teenagers* |
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| Inevitable | Aug 16 2009, 12:56 PM Post #14 |
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And everything in the Real World is? So what if one's not healthy? You deal with it. |
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| Commoncold0 | Aug 16 2009, 12:59 PM Post #15 |
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But surely your whole justification for this bill is to give the child more "healthy" social relations? |
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