SENATE BILL: Education for the Future Bill 2013 (Law'd)

[TNF]

Aye

[bore]

Aye

[President Tyrion]

Aye

[Senator Spiral]

Nay

[tmthforu94]

Nay

This isn't smart policy when we already have a large education budget and are running a deficit.

[Maxwell]

Nay

I'll love the inevitable campaign ads.

[Napoleon]

AYE

[Gass3268]

Aye

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I hope if this passes, the regions who don't need the additional funds will simply not use them. We already allot a great deal of money to education. Also, why is statistics listed as a separate subject? It's always considered mathematics...

[President Tyrion]

I hope if this passes, the regions who don't need the additional funds will simply not use them. We already allot a great deal of money to education. Also, why is statistics listed as a separate subject? It's always considered mathematics...

I fought pretty hard for it. Statistics is NOT mathematics; that it is considered mathematics is, in my belief, a failure of the education system.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I hope if this passes, the regions who don't need the additional funds will simply not use them. We already allot a great deal of money to education. Also, why is statistics listed as a separate subject? It's always considered mathematics...

I fought pretty hard for it. Statistics is NOT mathematics; that it is considered mathematics is, in my belief, a failure of the education system.

It's not? Stats has always been included in the mathematics departments of nearly every school I have attended...

Also, from the Webster dictionary:

statistics: a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data

You may believe it's not, but the facts indicate you may be incorrect...

[tmthforu94]

And someone finally comes to my defense on that...

[President Tyrion]

I hope if this passes, the regions who don't need the additional funds will simply not use them. We already allot a great deal of money to education. Also, why is statistics listed as a separate subject? It's always considered mathematics...

I fought pretty hard for it. Statistics is NOT mathematics; that it is considered mathematics is, in my belief, a failure of the education system.

It's not? Stats has always been included in the mathematics departments of nearly every school I have attended...

Also, from the Webster dictionary:

statistics: a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data

You may believe it's not, but the facts indicate you may be incorrect...

My point was, regardless of its classification, statistics includes a bevy of important skills that wouldn't be covered in teaching math up to algebra.

I prefer this definition of statistics (although the definition itself is a bit biased toward survey statistics):

"The practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities, esp. for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample."

Whether or not statistics is "math" is an interpretive point, but its necessity, as I previously accounted, is clear.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE No sense waiting several more days when the difference is one vote from the threshold of a majority.


This has enough votes to pass, SEnators have 24 hours to change their votes.

So another redraft in order here, man?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the Education for the Future Bill 2013:

Aye (6): bore, Gass3268, Napoleon, NC Yankee, TNF and TyriontheImperialist
Nay (3): Maxwell, Spiral and Tmthforu94
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (1): Xahar

With six votes in the affirmative and time havign expired, the bill has passed the Senate and is presented to the President for executive action.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

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Even though I still think I am right on the statistics question, I will sign this, for our children. Besides, I am future plans to cut some costs elsewhere.

x Duke