Title: Students on Strike
Description: Vast crowds of students, from pre-schoolers all the way through to University students, have taken to the streets demanding the government increase funding to public education as a way of addressing @@NAME@@'s dismal performance. The students vow to block traffic and disrupt daily life until the government meets their demands.
Validity: Have a poorly funded or completely unfunded public education system.
The Issue:
[option]"Education is a right! Not a Privilege!" shouts university student @@RANDOMNAME@@, blocking a road and waving a pen menacingly at a group of irritated commuters. "We demand quality affordable education for every student from pre-school all the way through to university! Without it how on earth are we going to compete in the modern job market? The pen is mightier than the sword! We need education now! Only then shall we allow the daily business of the nation to return to normal". The student hurls the pen at a car, where it bounces off the windshield anti-climactically.
[effect]the government and public alike live in perpetual fear of politicised pre-schoolers.
[stats] public education increases massively, taxation increases massively, political freedoms increase
[option]"Young hooligans blocking the roads and breaking the law" assesses Police Commissioner @@RANDOMNAME@@, while stroking a tear gas canister lovingly. "Allow me and my officers to break up these riots and arrest these whippersnappers and they'll be running home to mommy and daddy before they can say 'police brutality'. Trust me @@LEADER@@, I'll have this done in no time."
[effect]police frequently throw unruly toddlers into solitary confinement.
[stats] law enforcement increases, taxation increases, charmlessness increases massively, political freedoms decrease massively
[option]"Well there is obviously a compromise here, just turn to charter schools" reasons slick businessman @@RANDOMNAMEMALE@@, presenting you with his business card. "It's simple, the government increases spending to these privately run schools, we businessmen, celebrities and well off types cover some of the rest of the costs, and in return we help run them for you. It means less costs for the taxpayer and more variety in teaching, win win with no catch! Well, aside from the occasional unscrupulous administrator pocketing the cash for themselves and leaving the kids with nothing, but that hardly happens anymore".
[effect]school years occasionally last just a few weeks at sketchy charter schools.
[stats] public education increases slightly, taxation increases slightly, corruption increases slightly
[option]"Educashun? Folks still believe in that hocus-pocus?" asks filthy mercenary @@RANDOMNAMEMALE@@, while cleaning what you hope is tomato sauce off his boot. "All the teachun' those grunts need is how to hold a gun. Why, I don't even know how to spell me own name, and that never caused no problems for me. Send me and my folks in, and we'll have those midgets doing pushups in no time".
[effect]learning how to reassemble a gun in the dark has replaced learning how to spell.
[stats] public education plummets, military spending surges, economy decreases, charmlessness increases, political freedoms decrease massively
There are several issues on public education already, but none to my knowledge that take into account potential student protests and how a government may address that. Also I believe most tend to focus in on university education rather than education in general (although I may be mistaken about that).
Let me know what you think.