[DRAFT #1c] [GA#603 REPLACEMENT?] Against Bullying

[Bananaistan]

"As is always the case with this sort of proposal in recent times, home-schooled children's heads can be filled with all sorts of nonsense and the WA says that's just fine and dandy.

"The approach the assembly took in GAR#80 is far better. No mention of schools and only generalised requirements rather than detailed elements of education curricula."

[Tinhampton]

603 only covered schools (and too many other places, as its repeal proponents are often wont to note). So will this.

Article e has been changed. With it, Article f (former text: "Schools are urged to offer Article e(iv) education to all of their students.") has been binned.

Schools must:

1. regularly raise awareness among their students and staff of what bullying is, the different forms it can take, the kinds of people it can affect, its negative health impacts, how it can be prevented (including by bystanders), what punishments exist for it, and Article d reporting mechanisms,
2. actively encourage their students and staff not to disrespect or otherwise bully any person because of whatever ARCs they may have,
3. offer personal and meaningful support to those of their students and staff who are involved in bullying, with a particular focus on the wrongness of bullying and the full responsibility of the bully for their actions,
4. individually educate those of their students who are more at risk of being victims of discrimination (including bullying) due to whatever ARCs they may possess or lack about the ARCs in question, including by providing them with informative and respectful resources about those ARCs,
5. ensure that, when providing Article e(iv) education to students, they do so confidentially, and
6. remind their students and staff that all individuals - regardless of whatever ARCs they may possess or lack - are equal in value and equal under law.

[Bananaistan]

603 only covered schools (and too many other places, as its repeal proponents are often wont to note). So will this.

Article e has been changed. With it, Article f (former text: "Schools are urged to offer Article e(iv) education to all of their students.") has been binned.

Schools must:

1. regularly raise awareness among their students and staff of what bullying is, the different forms it can take, the kinds of people it can affect, its negative health impacts, how it can be prevented (including by bystanders), what punishments exist for it, and Article d reporting mechanisms,
2. actively encourage their students and staff not to disrespect or otherwise bully any person because of whatever ARCs they may have,
3. offer personal and meaningful support to those of their students and staff who are involved in bullying, with a particular focus on the wrongness of bullying and the full responsibility of the bully for their actions,
4. individually educate those of their students who are more at risk of being victims of discrimination (including bullying) due to whatever ARCs they may possess or lack about the ARCs in question, including by providing them with informative and respectful resources about those ARCs,
5. ensure that, when providing Article e(iv) education to students, they do so confidentially, and
6. remind their students and staff that all individuals - regardless of whatever ARCs they may possess or lack - are equal in value and equal under law.

"Replicating the bad provisions of bad law is a bad idea.

"Also it's all still needless micromanagement best left to sub-national authorities. We remain opposed."

[Anne of Cleves in TNP]

603 only covered schools (and too many other places, as its repeal proponents are often wont to note). So will this.

Article e has been changed. With it, Article f (former text: "Schools are urged to offer Article e(iv) education to all of their students.") has been binned.

Schools must:

1. regularly raise awareness among their students and staff of what bullying is, the different forms it can take, the kinds of people it can affect, its negative health impacts, how it can be prevented (including by bystanders), what punishments exist for it, and Article d reporting mechanisms,
2. actively encourage their students and staff not to disrespect or otherwise bully any person because of whatever ARCs they may have,
3. offer personal and meaningful support to those of their students and staff who are involved in bullying, with a particular focus on the wrongness of bullying and the full responsibility of the bully for their actions,
4. individually educate those of their students who are more at risk of being victims of discrimination (including bullying) due to whatever ARCs they may possess or lack about the ARCs in question, including by providing them with informative and respectful resources about those ARCs,
5. ensure that, when providing Article e(iv) education to students, they do so confidentially, and
6. remind their students and staff that all individuals - regardless of whatever ARCs they may possess or lack - are equal in value and equal under law.

"Replicating the bad provisions of bad law is a bad idea.

"Also it's all still needless micromanagement best left to sub-national authorities. We remain opposed."

“Ambassador, picture this. A resolution on one subject gets replaced by a resolution on a different subject. Therefore, if the replacement has different provisions, can it truly be called a ‘replacement’? Furthermore, how is bullying, an occurrence within at least a school of every nation, considered as ‘micromanagement’?”
-Ms. Charlotte Schafer, WA Ambassador for the Clevesian Empire

[Imperium Anglorum]

“Ambassador, picture this. A resolution on one subject gets replaced by a resolution on a different subject. Therefore, if the replacement has different provisions, can it truly be called a ‘replacement’? Furthermore, how is bullying, an occurrence within at least a school of every nation, considered as ‘micromanagement’?”
-Ms. Charlotte Schafer, WA Ambassador for the Clevesian Empire

C Marcius Blythe takes a bite out of an apple while sitting in his chair. "There is oxygen in every nation but we don't have laws requiring an oxygen meter in every room and you don't see international laws on them; maybe this standard of 'is it in lots of places' is a bad one for determining what is or isn't micromanagement".

[Bananaistan]

"Replicating the bad provisions of bad law is a bad idea.

"Also it's all still needless micromanagement best left to sub-national authorities. We remain opposed."

“Ambassador, picture this. A resolution on one subject gets replaced by a resolution on a different subject. Therefore, if the replacement has different provisions, can it truly be called a ‘replacement’?

"I don't particularly care if you call it Bob. That the WA erred in the past is not sufficient excuse for it to make the same error again.

Furthermore, how is bullying, an occurrence within at least a school of every nation, considered as ‘micromanagement’?”
-Ms. Charlotte Schafer, WA Ambassador for the Clevesian Empire

"As Comrade Blythe succinctly put it, that something is present in all member states is not a good enough reason for the WA to regulate it. What's next? WA mandated safe widths for the white line in the middle of the road? Or how about a convention on acceptable shelf depths and widths?"