Access to affordable post-secondary education
In November we asked a group of high school students about the kind of government issues that were important to them.
Then we asked them to vote on the ONE topic they’d like to see debated in the BC Youth Parliament. This issue garnered more than half the votes.
BCYP debated this topic in the BC Legislative Chamber on Dec 30. After over an hour of debate, the motion was defeated, 38-31.
Link to background info (revised) on merit-based student aid
Link to BCYP resolution that was defeated
Links to Hansard transcript of debate [pdf or html]
On the main page, see “Click here for voting results” to view the results of the online poll.
It seems to me that a high percentage of online voters agreed with the way the BCYP voted. The fact that the BCYP vote was closer than the online one might be due to the different age range – university rather than high school, and therefore with different concerns and views.
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I am not surprised at the results of the vote, the fact they are so different from ours at BCYP is because people who come online and vote don’t the option of hearing everyone else’s arguments and stories and so just go by their initial reaction. I wish more young people would have been brought in whilst we debated the resolution, maybe your vote results would be a bit different!
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In my opinion both of them are matter, and it will be batter to let this situation to be like nowadays. But if we vant to be shure, we need to check the prosent sistem both of this founds. And make a little more payment for needest one. Education is one of the most important thing in our world, thats why everybody should be able to have a good education.
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Well-loved. Vote up?
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Merit matters!
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