Francos Spain
Our Blessed and Chosen Leader of the Pacific
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Post by Francos Spain on Apr 6, 2004 3:03:26 GMT -5
UN Educational Committee[/size] A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights. Category: Human Rights Strength: Strong Proposed by: Hersfold
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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to poor training: And, schools do not have sufficent funds to purchase better equipment to replace old, broken and/or out-of-date materials;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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Francos Spain
Our Blessed and Chosen Leader of the Pacific
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Post by Francos Spain on Apr 6, 2004 3:14:28 GMT -5
Starts out nicely enough, minus the typos, then he kind of trails off. That bit about how bad school food is struck me as kind of odd. Must've been written by a disgruntled high schooler.
As for the punchline:
The misplacement of the apostrophe is one damning error.
Now, I'm all for educational improvement and reform, but that doesn't mean I think it'll be achieved by giving schools money to put in security cameras in every hallway or by giving funding so that Shitsville High can have a football team. People need to stop focusing on the surroundings and environment and start paying attention to the substance of education itself.
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Post by Tarqys on Apr 6, 2004 3:55:51 GMT -5
All, While I do believe Francos highlights some very noticeable points, I do feel that the overall substance of education is being holistically approached in this resolution. I understand the seemingly random point of school security. When one combines the amount of crime on college campuses alone, it becomes quite clear that security - while not overwhelmingly punctuated in this resolution - is indeed a valid point (please refer to this CNN article for further information www.cnn.com/2000/US/10/24/campus.crime.01/index.html ). I believe one of the resolution's strongest clauses comes from this one: HEARING that many countries cut the budget for education before anything else to aid funding for other programs; This helps to solidify the author's main intent, which is the priority of education must be paramount - if not tantamount - to other national issues. In summation, I give this resolution the go-ahead. Penmanship errors aside, the intent of the resolution seems clear to me (it's when typos begin to detract from the main point, that's when they become unforgiveable). I implore those voting to weigh both opinions as you see fit. Regards, C Edward Adams Commonwealth of Tarqys ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Above lies my previous statement for the resolution. However, on further inspection of previous resolutions, I find this new one impossible to regulate. Please refer to UN Resolution: UN taxation ban. With this 'passed' resolution, I find it impossible for this new one to even see fruition because it contradicts and oversteps a previous mandate of the UN. Though the UN Resolution: UN Education Committee doesn't state specifically where the money is to come from, I tend to agree with most objectors who say funds will come from UN Member-states. With this revelation, I am voting against this Resolution. Furhtermore, I am seriously debating withdrawal from the UN. The proposals/resolutions within are so ridiculously penned it's a wonder anyone takes most of them seriously. I would love to see proposals/resolutions standardized. I have left my post in an effort to expose my hasty judgement.
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Post by Azerbaijanistanialand on Apr 6, 2004 4:54:29 GMT -5
Im against it for the usual reasons, sovereighnty and the UN being filled with liberal 13 year olds. If I want to run a hell hole prison country, goddamnit its my right! So good Leader, please vote no!
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Post by Tarqys on Apr 6, 2004 5:53:04 GMT -5
Azerbaijanistanialand,
I am a bit confused as to why you would seek Francos 'Against' vote as you are not a member of the UN. The outcome of this resolution will not directly affect you, thus I do not see the legitimacy of your statement in the context of this UN resolution discussion. Furthermore, I do not see the relevance in counting your vote in the poll. It rivals the absurdity of a Floridian voting for a law that will only affect those in Lubbock, TX.
Now, if you have grievances with the UN as an entity, that's another topic.
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Post by Ionization on Apr 6, 2004 7:28:25 GMT -5
I am against this resolution because it seems to violates the sovereign rights of individual states. I have tried to provide a good educational climate for the children in my country by enacting child labor laws and forbidding children from gambling in casinos, for example. But not every national leader makes decisions such as these. Are those of us who have already seen the light supposed to fund an educational initiative to benifit those countries that are unable or unwilling to make the hard decisions that are needed to guarantee a good future for their children? The resolution does not specifically state that there would be a transfer of funds from my coffers to those of countries that are negligent, but that doesn't mean that it won't happen. Any time I read the phrase (or its equivalent) "Think of the children", I know i's going to result in increased taxes. I say vote no.
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Post by Azerbaijanistanialand on Apr 6, 2004 7:44:52 GMT -5
I am a bit confused as to why you would seek Francos 'Against' vote as you are not a member of the UN. The outcome of this resolution will not directly affect you, thus I do not see the legitimacy of your statement in the context of this UN resolution discussion. Oh but I am in the UN, simply not this specific nation but rather a puppet engaged in the service of the Region. Despite that though, even if I had no UN status I would like to think my opinion would still be valid as our great leader has not imposed any restrictions on the voting of this topic.
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Post by Abysseria on Apr 6, 2004 8:21:03 GMT -5
This resolution violates national sovreignty, something that is NOT PART OF THE UN CHARTER.
Therefore, vote no. The national right to sovreignty is more important than high school cafeteria food.
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Post by Warrior Thorin on Apr 6, 2004 9:05:18 GMT -5
I do a lot of work as a research assistant with the Milwaukee City schools. MPS' (Milwaukee Public Schools) approach to correcting problems sometimes gives me headaches. However, we at UWM have been testing some programs that are designed to lower violence in the schools and we have found two very promising programs, and best of all, they are relatively cheap to implement and have had excellent results.
The point is, you do need to give students the right environment to flourish, but reducing violence is not even close to the panacea: you need proper funding for better teachers, better curriculum, and better academic resources. We might offer the students a better environment (and this notion of putting cameras in schools is absolutely ridiculous, although for some inner city schools it's probably not a bad idea for outside of the school). What needs to be done is to examine the substance of schools world-wide that are successful and try to emulate whatever aspects exist in those schools.
I believe the ills of a school are merely symptomatic of the community that it serves, therefore an examination outside of the school attendence boundary has to be taken to begin repairing its ills. I doubt that this UNEC is prepared to do this; in fact I believe that the UNEC will take a "blanket" approach to correcting problems without looking at each school individually. What might happen then is that we would average to the mean: schools that sucked would be brought up while schools that were high in achievement would be brought down. Because of this, I would have to vote against this resolution.
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Post by Ionization on Apr 7, 2004 13:04:23 GMT -5
I have temporarily resigned from the United Nations until this resolution has worked its way through the process. The for/against vote is on the order of 2:1. I don't want to be shackled with something I don't approve of.
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