LC 4.7: Public School Reform Act (Failed)

[OneJ]

Public School Reform Act

A bill to set common standards for public schools, on what to learn and what to offer.

SECTION I: DETERMINING A SCHOOL WEEK
1. A school week lasts 36 hours a week (8 hours a day, from 8am to 12am and from 1pm to 5pm, wednesday afternoon free)
2. Schools in Lincoln should be open from 7am to 6pm, providing lunch and study time, except for wednesday afternoon

SECTION II: DETERMINING SUBJECTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
1. Mandatory offer pocket for all study directions (24 hours)
a. 4 hours of English
b. 3 hours of maths
c. 3 hours of natural sciences (chemistry, biology, physics)
d. 3 hours of social sciences (psychology, mental health, politics, economy, philosophy, finances, morality, media)
e. 2 hours of Spanish
f. 2 hours of history
g. 2 hours of physical education
h. 2 hours of world religion (catholocism, understanding other religions)
i. 1 hour of geography
j. 1 hour of musical education
k. 1 hour of art class
l. 1 hour of teambuilding (class building, social understanding, social lessons)
2. Depending on what study directions a school offers, the rest of the program shall be filled in by schools.

SECTION III: STUDY DIRECTIONS IN SCHOOL
1. A public school can decide what packages they offer on their school
2. A student should choose two additional packages: each containing 6 hours
3. These packages shall be available to them, but schools have the choice to offer them or not
a. Human sciences
b. Maths
c. Languages
d. Technology
e. Mechanics
f. Electronics
g. Economics
h. Care sector
i. Natural sciences
j. Building sector

SECTION IV: MANDATORY SUBJECT PACKAGES FOR SCHOOLS
1. Each student should learn
a. 8 hours a year about traffic education
b. 8 hours a year about sexual education
c. 4 hours a year about mental health
d. 4 hours a year about first aid by accidents

SECTION V: IMPLEMENTATION
1. This bill shall take effect during the new school year of 2020-2021

Sponsor: Lakigigar

The debating period has commenced and shall last for no less than 72 hours.

[PSOL]

Can someone pull up our previous work on the last council of Lincoln on the matter of education? Itwould be best to compare and contrast this bill with the previous one.

[OneJ]

Can someone pull up our previous work on the last council of Lincoln on the matter of education? Itwould be best to compare and contrast this bill with the previous one.

Okay, here's the link Tack provided in the Legislation Introduction thread: https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Lincoln_Education_Act

[PSOL]

Alright, so this clears up some things. I would wholly create a new amendment using the old education bill as a baseline, save one or two amendments added for an updated education bill.

One thing that must be clarified on is what is under the purview of a biology or physical education class? Is sex Ed in one of there or no? That’s the only change that could be added in my opinion.

[Senator tack50 (Lab-Lincoln)]

Alright, so this clears up some things. I would wholly create a new amendment using the old education bill as a baseline, save one or two amendments added for an updated education bill.

One thing that must be clarified on is what is under the purview of a biology or physical education class? Is sex Ed in one of there or no? That’s the only change that could be added in my opinion.

I based much of that bill off my own education system tbh. It's far from great but pretty much all councillors back then wanted education reform and there was some interest in splitting paths in later years so I just borrowed it and merged it with a Curriculum Reform act from Thr33.

Anyways, Sex Ed in my experience fell mostly into Biology (usually it's studied alongside the Reproductive System whenever it gets studied). Year 9 was when I got most of my Sex Ed (although smaller/simpler amounts were introduced earlier but nothing like Year 9).

However, in one of few differences from my RL education, Biology is actually not mandatory for everyone starting in year 9 instead of year 10 for RL me; so I imagine Sex Ed would be taught in year 8 instead. Laki's section IV is a good alternative though, but it might lead to longer school days if those are considered extracurricular (while I did get such kinds of activities in RL, they were more like 1 hour a month or something like that).

Worth noting that if Laki's Section IV is implemented, it could just replace the "General Class Meetings" subject instead, as it's almost the exact amount of hours as this bill would imply (1 hour every week). The aims of that subject are different (generally more towards solving any class conflicts, teaching students "life lessons", etc), but it's still an option

[Laki]

Alright, so this clears up some things. I would wholly create a new amendment using the old education bill as a baseline, save one or two amendments added for an updated education bill.

One thing that must be clarified on is what is under the purview of a biology or physical education class? Is sex Ed in one of there or no? That’s the only change that could be added in my opinion.

Physical education is mostly sports
Biology has a section of sexual reproduction as a theme in it
But sexual education is more about information before the act, learning about prevention methods by learning about contraception.

[OneJ]

Where are we on this?

[PSOL]

Where are we on this?

It’s time to vote on this.

[Senator tack50 (Lab-Lincoln)]

Where are we on this?

It’s time to vote on this.

Well, this directly contradicts the Lincoln Education act in several places, shouldn't it include an explicit repeal or is an implicit one ok?

[PSOL]

Where are we on this?

It’s time to vote on this.

Well, this directly contradicts the Lincoln Education act in several places, shouldn't it include an explicit repeal or is an implicit one ok?

I expect this to be voted down, so the implication does not matter.

[OneJ]

Councilors have 24 hours to object to a final vote.

[OneJ]

Councilors now have 48 hours to vote on the bill (AYE, NAY, or ABSTAIN).

[OneJ]

Nay.

[Pragmatist_TNAG]

Nay

[PSOL]

Nay

[JGibson]

NAY

[AustralianSwingVoter]

If Ninja doesn't vote on this bill he'll be automatically recalled for missing 6 consecutive votes once the vote closes in about 36 hours. However, due to the proximity of the general election, there isn't time for a by-election to fill the vacancy.

[OneJ]

If Ninja doesn't vote on this bill he'll be automatically recalled for missing 6 consecutive votes once the vote closes in about 36 hours. However, due to the proximity of the general election, there isn't time for a by-election to fill the vacancy.

Yeah and he just resigned too.

[Laki]

Aye

[OneJ]

The final vote period has ended and failed by a vote of 1-4-1.

AYE: 1 (Lakigigar)
NAY: 4 (OneJ, Pragmatist_TNAG, PSOL, JGibson)
Not Voting: 1 (Dkrol)