Education Opting Out Ballots
EDM number 1339 in 1992-93, proposed by Alan Meale on 08/02/1993.
That this House notes the anti-democratic measures taken by the present Government to both influence opting out ballots and prevent opposition to such a direction from being able to present their argument in any campaign; is alarmed that the Government has (i) established rules applicable to such ballots that are interpreted so that parents who fail to vote are deemed to be in favour of opting out, (ii) arranged ballot rules so that a minority of parents of children who will be at the school when it opts out can determine the future of a school, (iii) proposed the abolition of second ballots to shorten the time schedule process, (iv) sanctioned the Department for Education to produce biased glossy and costly materials for parents to promote opting out and (v) used taxpayers' monies to produce expensive road shows whose purpose is to take schools out of the state sector; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to cease this misuse of public funds and for a return to a system of fair government for education which will leave parents to make up their own minds about the future of their children's schools.
This motion has been signed by a total of 61 MPs.
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