NationStates Jolt Archive

"Don't tell me space colonies wouldn't be cool," says excited fifth-grade teacher Charles Dredd, still wearing big Spock ears from his last convention. "Think of how they would galvanize the national population! And there would also be some kind of scientific benefit, probably."
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"The project certainly is feasible, but very expensive," says Tn1 Space Agency Head Akira Bush. "We could make it less of a burden on the taxpayers if we sought funding from private industry -- advertisements on the side of our rockets, selling contracts to the Arms Manufacturing industry, that kind of thing."
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"If God had meant Man to fly, he would have given us solid rocket boosters instead of legs," says religious type Buy Licorish. "We should not be looking to the stars, but rather inside our own hearts. That's why we should abandon this so-called space program, and instead make the teaching of religion mandatory in all schools."
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Does option 3 (religious classes) increase or decrease education in the nation? Does Option 1 or 2 have any effect on education?

I don't think any affect education. Intelligence, maybe, but not education(they're seprate rankings. One of my puppets has high national ingelligence but is fairly lax in school funding).

And from past experience, I'd say #3 would probably reduce intelligence, though I can't be sure(secondhand evidence here, so take it with a grain of salt. Our region used to have a troll who, among other antics, would choose every pro-religion option at every opportunity, and his nation was perpetually in the top 15 for stupedist nations worldwide everytime that ranking came up).