NationStates Jolt Archive

OK, when looking through the past resolution, i noticed that there wasn't any guidelines on what a student should know. So i decided to start a resolution about it. Questions, comments, suggestions, anything that should be added, taken away, relaxed ect always welcome :D you can post or telegram, it doesn't matter.

Basic Universal Education Standards

Category: Moral Decency (?) Strength: Mild

RECONIZING that education is an important aspect in any person’s life.

CONCERNED that there is currently no guidelines for education on an international stand-point,

DECLARES the following guidelines for every education system

-The student will be able to recite the alphabet of the country’s national language by the age of 6 (if applicable)

-The student will be able to read common words longer then 3 letters by the age of 8

- The student will be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide one-digit numbers by the age of 8.

-The student will be able to add and subtract three-digit numbers by the age of 10

-The student will be able to multiply and divide three-digit numbers by the age of 12

-The student will be able to print his name by the age of 6

-The student will be able to print any word presented by the age of 8

Again, comments, suggestions always welcome :D

Greetings.

We would have to say that while the intent is laudable, the execution might prove impossible. We believe that the NSUN, while having the right to mandate such guidelines (in an abstract sense), has no right to enforce such guidelines, as various nations, for their own purposes, might seek to implement faster-paced or slower-paced education, as is their cultural, social, political and educational right.

We further argue that there are states in which such guidelines are meaningless - states where the languages have no letters (save binary 'words'), states where communication is non-verbal or non-graphical or non-numeric, states where the age limits are inapplicable. Hence there is a strongly supportable case for NOT having curricular details as the main point of a proposed resolution presented to this august assembly.

Darkumbria and the Northwind region has the following concerns:

1)The proposal, again, concedes control over national obligations and objectives. It is the Northwind's regional objective to have less UN involvement in the runnings of our countries, not more.

2) This proposal has no teeth. It is alot of conjecture and the country in question shoulds. Moreover, the "recommedations" being made are based upon information that may not be universally available, or applicable, in all situations. Indeed, the delegate appears to have forgotten that some nations are third world and may not have the ability to do this, and it may bankrupt some nations, making them a further burden on their neighbors.

RECONIZING that education is an important aspect in any person’s life.

So is breathing. We find education to not be as important as survival.

CONCERNED that there is currently no guidelines for education on an international stand-point,

DECLARES the following guidelines for every education system

The reason why guidelines are not given is simple: Not everyone in the UN uses the same education system or is the same species. Hell, my people start education at four and already have people choosing which Guild they will spend the rest of their lives working for at age ten.

-The student will be able to recite the alphabet of the country’s national language by the age of 6 (if applicable)

We have a 33-letter alphabet. It takes longer to learn it due to the number of letters and the minute differences between many of the symbols.

-The student will be able to read common words longer then 3 letters by the age of 8

Um, most of our common words are 8 plus in letters.

- The student will be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide one-digit numbers by the age of 8.

This would be nice, but we usually have them a bit higher at that age. Of course, a base-25 system makes things a bit easier.

-The student will be able to add and subtract three-digit numbers by the age of 10

Er, why would you want them to start that level of math education at that age? At that age, they are already choosing their Guild.

-The student will be able to multiply and divide three-digit numbers by the age of 12

Unable to do. They are, at that time, learning skills of their chosen Guild and comming to decide which branch of it to work for.

-The student will be able to print his name by the age of 6

-The student will be able to print any word presented by the age of 8

Not too bad.

Attempting to micro-manage like this across over 30,000 UN nations is simply a bad idea. There are so many things that vary between societies that one size cannot possibly fit all.