UN Proposal: UN Educational Committee

[Parthini]

UN Educational Committee

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Hersfold

Description: NOTICING, that the condition of many educational facilities worldwide lack the ability to properly teach thier children, in that:

Classrooms are falling into disrepair;
Teachers are unable to properly educate their students due to poor training:
And, schools do not have sufficent funds to purchase better equipment to replace old, broken and/or out-of-date materials;

SEEING that a student's mental welfare and self-esteem can be greatly improved through extra-curricular activities, which many schools can not afford or do not fund sufficently;

FINDING that the food served in many school cafeterias is not healthy, and tastes revolting besides;

SHOCKED by the fact that many school systems lack sufficent security systems to keep their students safe from dangerous trespassers and, in some cases, themselves;

HEARING that many countries cut the budget for education before anything else to aid funding for other programs;

HAVING PASSED the resolution "Free Education" on August 19th of the year 2003;

AND REALIZING that today's children are tommorrow's future, and without proper education of these children, our future will fail;

THE NATIONSTATES UNITED NATIONS shall form the United Nations Educational Committee, or UNEC, which shall resolve all of these problems in our nation's educational systems by providing funding to these systems, so they may repair unsafe schools, purchase security systems to protect our students from harm, provide extra-curricular activities to help our children's mental and physical state of being, provide them with healthier school lunches, provide a better learning environment for our children by training teachers and purchasing more up-to-date materials for the students, and overall ensuring our world's future to be a prosperous one.
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As an advocate for better schooling, this seems like a good idea (To see how much of an advocate, I freed colleges.) However, it isn't very clear on how those things will be accomplished. If the proposal is set to just set up a committee it is a good one.

So what do you guys think?

GPP

[Fleeb]

Fleeb favors total root and branch abolition of public ownership of the means of production in the education industry. Socialized education produces good soviet subjects. Utter and absolute privatization of the educational systems with first choice of ownership to corporations organized by active teachers would do a lot more to improve the conditions described. Let the state put the means to fund a personally selected option in the hands of each family and student. Let a thousands flowers bloom and a 1000 schools flourish, and you'll start to get a UN that can spell the third person plural possessive pronoun.l

[Naoi]

Just like you guys said, yay for better education, but the whole "HEARING" line sounds like they want to try to make countries spend their money on education. That kind of invades on our rights to govern our nations as we see fit, doesn't it?

[Boktavia II]

I am politely abstaining from this proposal, since though of course I fully support education, I am a little stumped by its clarity. As Parthini says, it doesn't really say how we are really supposed to stop the things he has listed.

[Bad Infinitum]

Amen.

It provides the problem well, almost too well, and it provides a solution. However, it is quite vague on the details. Also, it does seem to touch on our individual nations' rights to govern ourselves. Who's to say we need to spend more on education? I say, not in opposition to this proposal, but in spite of it, I'll start cutting education costs until this proposal is done being voted on.

I'm really tired...

[TheSensitiveNewAge]

I will educate the people according to my will with my steel fist, danggit!

I said no to it.

[The Peoples of Yavanna]

I fully agree with Ad Infinitum. Too vague for me. And I think my own government can best decide for itself and our peoples what we need to spend on education, and where the money should be spent. We do not need the UN to decide for us.

[Ambivila]

Ambivila votes no. We hate it when the UN tells us how to run our country.

Besides, we are apparently way smarter than the average UN member (based on recent voting), and therefore must need less education than they do.

[Taureska]

My understanding of this is that he is proposing a UN committee to fund and oversee all education systems. Now how is the UN supposed to get the money for this funding? I don't think this is a well thought-out solution.

I say no.

[Odracir]

I vote no. I hate the UN.

[The Peoples of Yavanna]

The Peoples of Yavanna would like to commend Parthini on his vote against the resolution.

Thank You.

[grmsr]

We in Texarcana and the Libertarian party believe that the best education comes from a voucher program or privitization of some form or another. If public education works where you are then keep it. But don't legislate to the world what each nation should decide for itself !!

We say NO !!

[Parthini]

The Parthinian Council has voted NO on the current resolution.

Sincerely,
GPP