WA Voting: The Right to Education

The Right to Education A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.
Category: Education and Creativity	Area of Effect: Educational	Proposed by: Meekinos
Description: The World Assembly, Acknowledging the importance of education as a contributing factor to self and community betterment; Understanding the importance of an individual's growth through continual learning; Believing that equal opportunity learning will better the community as a whole; Further acknowledging a nation's right to an education system that is custom tailored to its needs; Hereby, 1. Mandates that Member States shall: a) Not restrict the pursuit of learning for its citizens; b) Promote learning and education within its borders; c) Ensure affordability for its citizens if it has a user-pay system, so that even the lowest income earners are able to send their children to school and return to school in order to better themselves, without incurring a burdensome debt; d) Create its own national standards for teachers to ensure a reasonable level of competence; e) Establish a standard curriculum for its students based on its own needs and future goals; f) Ensure that the tools needed for learning are made available to all; g) Not force a citizen to end their education upon reaching age of majority. 2. Whereas no formal government funded educational system exists, Member States shall: a) Allow its citizens to pursue their education abroad; b) Allow for the private sector to provide education. 3. Emphasises that this Resolution does not affect a member state's right to have: a) Religious schools and religious teaching; b) Vocational schools with specific focuses; c) Academic schools at primary, secondary and post-secondary levels; d) Home-schooling systems; e) Any other form of educational system; f) Any level of government to control the education system. co-authored with Charlotte Ryberg

FOR,
AGAINST, or
ABSTAIN?

You know the normal 3 days.

AGAINST

AGAINST

For.

2 Against; 1 For.