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[Passed] Repeal "Enabling the Disabled in Academia"
Topic Started: Aug 1 2017, 01:06 PM (79 Views)
Adytus
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General Assembly Resolution #404 “Enabling The Disabled In Academia” (Category: Education and Creativity; Area of Effect: Educational) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Whereas legislation passed by the World Assembly cannot be amended or changed, only repealed, and that any correction of the problems noted in the target resolution would first require passage of a repeal:

And whereas it is the case that

the members of the World Assembly, and the assembly itself, have limited resources,

this resolution effectively forces members to provide accommodations and various support groups in all places of education, both public and private, imposing huge costs which (for private systems especially) would be difficult or impossible to bear,

it can both be cheaper for nations to provide a higher level of accommodation and support in specialised organisations more suited to persons with specific disabilities via e.g. enrolment in specialised schools,

schools can serve multiple functions, but they cannot serve all functions simultaneously without compromising quality, and

accommodations for one group can trade off with the welfare of another, derived simply from the fact that resources are fungible:

And whereas the resolution's definitions are unsound as

the definition of 'disabled' includes practically all manner of different ailments or manners of imperfect health, their being a condition that 'limits movements, senses, or activities',

that definition fails to consider such things as learning disabilities, which do not limit movement, senses, or physical activity, and therefore does not provide those accommodations which the resolution seeks, and

the definition of 'disabled student', beyond the fact that knowledge is not disbursed as if it were coin, only applies to 'academic settings' which many times are not the only places of education.

And whereas this resolution offers little improvement over those protections already instituted in section 2 of the resolution 'A Promotion of Basic Education' and the resolution 'Charter of Civil Rights', while blocking the passage of mandates for effective accommodation that are currently being drafted:

And whereas the use of the phrase 'the disabled' dehumanises persons living with disabilities, reducing them to be a problem to be normalised or 'solved' whilst subsuming their identities into a single aspect of their personhood:

Now, therefore, be it enacted by the World Assembly, by and with the advice and consent of its members, and by the authority of the same, that the resolution entitled 'Enabling The Disabled in Academia' be repealed.
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Edited by Adytus, Aug 11 2017, 04:24 PM.
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Adytus
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I honestly never thought the other one would pass.

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Cormac
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It's a repeal in the General Assembly, so Aye.
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Aye
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