[DRAFT] Foster's Decree of Opportunity

[Castle Federation]

RECOGNIZING the foster home systems of regions that attempt to bring a family to the homeless child

SEEING the unstable nature of such systems as children are transferred from home to home

REMEMBERING the right of any child to fairly receive education no matter what the background

UNDERSTANDING that the children of the foster system is a child of the state and in this:

This document declares:
All children of the foster system shall earn a full scholarship to a college education if such foster student meets nation standards

No nation shall set a standard that would include at least 15% of the foster children in a yearly class

Every nation shall have the right to withdraw a scholarship if foster student is sentenced to prison

Only foster students who graduate from an institution of secondary education may be eligible for a scholarship

A foster student who has earned a scholarship may be dismissed from a scholarship if performance drops below college / university standards.

This decree stands to brighten the educational future of children whose only parents are the nations that exist to serve the parentless young.

[Defwa]

Greetings and welcome to the general assembly. I see you have a proposal. Generally its suggested to not author a proposal with your early posts. You should, instead, consider participating in existing debates so that you can learn through experience what is expected of your proposal and who you are trying to influence.

For instance, had you taken the time to look around, you'd realize this is not Kansas anymore. Or America. Or earth.
Not everyone considers orphans wards of the state. Or even has a state. Not everyone has post secondary education. Or education.

You could also benefit from learning some formatting tricks and his to write so as to get the desired effect on groups that will get everything to circumvent you.

[Grays Harbor]

I am not, as a general rule, comfortable with mandated quotas based on criteria not related to the subject. Reserving 15% of academic space based on being fostered is an example.

[Separatist Peoples]

"Not an international issue. We can handle our own college grant law, thanks.

[Araraukar]

*brandishes the dissection knife* Let's see what this poor bastard had for a lunch before it died!

To start with, category and strength?

RECOGNIZING the foster home systems of regions that attempt to bring a family to the homeless child

Wouldn't adopting them be a better option? Adoption even has it's own resolution.

SEEING the unstable nature of such systems as children are transferred from home to home

Proof of this? Just because it happens in your nation, doesn't mean it happens in every nation. And, again, wouldn't adoption give these kids a better and more stable home?

REMEMBERING the right of any child to fairly receive education no matter what the background

If the "remembering" is a reference to CoCR, you might want to change it to "acknowledging" or "reminding" or something like that, to prevent people (me, often) crying foul on the HoC grounds.

The Charter of Civil Rights GA#35 wrote:
Article 1.
*snip*
c ) All inhabitants of member states have the right not to be and indeed must not be discriminated against on grounds including sex, race, ethnicity, nationality, skin color, language, economic or cultural background, physical or mental disability or condition, religion or belief system, sexual orientation or sexual identity, or any other arbitrarily assigned and reductive categorisation which may be used for the purposes of discrimination, except for compelling practical purposes, such as hiring only female staff to work with battered women who have sought refuge from their abusers.

A Promotion of Basic Education GA#80 wrote:
1. Declares that all citizens have the right to be educated

Also, I'd say that includes fostered children.

UNDERSTANDING that the children of the foster system is a child of the state and in this:

Rights of the Orphaned Child wrote:
MANDATES that in the event of a child being orphaned, the primary guardian(s) will be an elder sibling who has reached the national age of maturity or, failing such a sibling, another person(s) designated by the parents in the event of their death;

DIRECTS that failing the existence, willingness and/or competency of a primary guardian, the orphaned child shall be entrusted into the care of the State, a State-run body or a body that has been sanctioned to do so by the State, as appropriate;

This would seem to hold true for orphans only, and even then only orphans for whom no (reliable) relative can be found. But children are unable to be cared for by their parents for other reasons, too, and I couldn't find a resolution covering those situations. If this is what you're aiming at - such as the sole guardian being in prison, but not wanting to put their child up for adoption - then you should make it clear in the proposal.

All children of the foster system shall earn a full scholarship to a college education if such foster student meets nation standards

Pishposh. This alone will prevent this proposal from passing. In addition, that would discriminate against children who are still cared for by their parents.

No nation shall set a standard that would include at least 15% of the foster children in a yearly class

...so you're banning nations from setting the requirement 15% of foster children in a yearly class? Odd, but if fostering isn't too common in a nation, I guess that might be ok.

Every nation shall have the right to withdraw a scholarship if foster student is sentenced to prison

I would think this is already the right of the nations.

Only foster students who graduate from an institution of secondary education may be eligible for a scholarship

But not eligible for scholarship for secondary education? Also, please remember that not all schooling systems are like your own. Some might not have separate "stages" of education. So you might want to define this.

A foster student who has earned a scholarship may be dismissed from a scholarship if performance drops below college / university standards.

Performance? Not grades or passing of classes? I can see that being abused by universities (are you intentionally leaving polytechs out of this?) who don't want a ton of foster kids tarnishing their posh-kids-only reputation.

This decree stands to brighten the educational future of children whose only parents are the nations that exist to serve the parentless young.

Wait, are you now claiming that only parentless, aka orphans, count for these "foster kids"? Because if yes, then you need to take better care to not duplicate or contradict existing resolution. As is, I'd say this strays a bit too much into other resolutions' territories to count as legal. Check the resolutions I quoted, in full. [OOC: Clicking the "wrote" in each will get you to the proposal text.]

[Hakio]

"The intent is honourable, but they execution of the idea here is poorly done probably due to inexperience in terms of drafting." Sia shoots the new ambassador a rare friendly smile due to the similarly rare condition she is in known as being "sober". She continues, "I would recommend you talk with some of the more experienced drafters around here. Not me of course, I'm just a junky ambassador."