[GA, Failed] - Homework Abolishment Act

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Homework Abolishment Act
Category: Education and Creativity | Area of Effect: Educational
Proposed by: Main Page | Onsite Topic​

Article 1: Homework Abolishment
1. With the aim of reducing academic pressure and promoting a holistic approach to education, it shall be unlawful for teachers in WA Member Nations to assign homework to students in any educational institution, including but not limited to schools, colleges, and universities.

Article 2: Prohibited Homework Assignments
1. Teachers shall not assign homework, regardless of its nature, volume, or subject matter, including but not limited to written assignments, projects, research work, or any other tasks that are expected to be completed outside of regular school hours.

Article 3: Classroom-based Learning
1. Emphasis shall be placed on conducting comprehensive and engaging educational activities within the classrooms during regular school hours.
2. Teachers and educators shall make use of educational strategies, interactive discussions, group activities, and practical exercises to enhance students' learning experiences.

Article 4: Assessment Methods
1. Teachers shall be responsible for designing alternative methods of assessing students' understanding and knowledge acquisition, which shall be conducted during the regular school hours.
2. Continuous evaluation, periodic assessments, class participation, oral examinations, and in-class assignments shall be utilized as effective tools for evaluating student progress.

Article 5: Teacher Training
1. The Ministry of Education, or equivalent governing body, shall organize mandatory training programs for teachers to help them develop effective teaching methodologies that reduce the need for homework assignments.
2. Professional development programs shall focus on innovative teaching practices, individualized attention, and skill development to enhance student learning outcomes.

Article 6: Wellness and Extracurricular Activities
1. Schools shall encourage students to engage in extracurricular activities, cultivation of hobbies, and spend quality time with family and friends.
2. The Ministry of Education shall collaborate with schools to organize counseling services, stress management workshops, and mental health initiatives to support students' overall well-being.

Article 7: Penalties
1. Any teacher found guilty of assigning homework outside of the provided guidelines shall be subject to disciplinary action, which may include counseling, retraining, or temporary suspension from teaching duties.

Article 8: Implementation
1. The Ministry of Education shall be responsible for monitoring the implementation of this act, developing guidelines for teachers, and ensuring compliance across all educational institutions.
2. Local educational authorities shall cooperate with the Ministry of Education in executing this act at a regional level.
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Overview
Homework Abolishment Act does precisely as its title suggests. The proposal aims to prohibit all homework across member nations of the General Assembly. It also has a variety of secondary regulations to enforce this prohibition, which includes mandating certain types of penalty for teaching staff who decide to give homework, requiring teachers to suggest that students do non-homework activities, and compelling this prohibition to be enforced through local government. There are also some other, related obligations, such as promotion of classroom-based examination, mandatory training on how to avoid setting homework, and development of counselling services presumably to cope with the past spectre of homework.

Recommendation
The basic policy here is quite simple: homework should be prohibited. This is an arguable position, and the preamble of the proposal does present some good reasons not to have homework. However, the definition provided of “homework” is overly broad, including, for example, a doctoral student researching his or her own PhD. This takes the policy from arguable into unsupportable. Additionally, the way that the policy is implemented is far too burdensome. There is no need for mandatory training, and certainly not for the imposition of GA-led penalties, merely to avoid homework being set. This proposal should have taken a lighter touch, and its current heaviness renders it the wrong sort of legislation for the task at hand.

For the above reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote Against the General Assembly Resolution at Vote, Homework Abolishment Act.
 
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Against. Significant concerns that this text is written entirely via ChatGPT (this has been discussed in Discord), and no forum drafting thread. If we are really going down the path of appealing to our core demographics of 12-year-olds with "no homework, more sex, and free beer", as I mentioned on Discord, I'm going to go and play Grand Theft Auto or Cities: Skylines instead. Or get back to work. There isn't going to be a colder bucket of water dumped upon you when you are playing a political simulator (that's what it is, folks) than to get reminded about reality.

Edit: the author admitted to "polishing" using ChatGPT. (The style of writing is very different to the author's style in RMBs).

 
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This is micromanagement to the extreme. Not only is it micromanagement, it wouldn’t be a good policy even if implemented at the macroscopic level. I am against this proposal and likely also against any future iterations thereof.
 
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...though, recognising the complement of compass-touting 14-year-olds and conservative elders that constitutes the WA's representatives to be weighted somewhat in favour of the former, I fear the support may be overwhelming.
 
AI, micromanaging, a stupid cause, all in all everything we don’t want to see in the GA.

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