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Vote Against GA resolution Enabling The Disabled In Academia


General Assembly Vote Recommendation

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Resolution at Vote: Enabling The Disabled In Academia
Vote Recommendation: Against

Resolution Analysis

Bouncyabbeykitty's recommendation

You should have received a telegram from The Northern Lights advising you to vote against this resolution because it is too expensive to implement. I am here to persuade you that to do so is to buy in to the principles that result in institutional discrimination against disabled people. I also believe that this resolution should not pass, however I believe this is the case because it is poorly worded, open to repeal and misinterpretation and is not the best way to ensure equal rights for disabled students.

I believe that the cost of training teachers adequately and adapting schools is a price that all WA member nations should pay, for the benefit of all disabled people within WA member nations. The WA has stood in the past for disabled people’s rights, and in some ways I believe the proposal at vote does not go far enough in encouraging disabled people to be educated in as mainstream an environment as possible, while accepting that some people will not be able to cope in a fully mainstream school.

I challenge the argument that it is too costly as the proposal does not say that all schools should provide all things for all people, instead requiring adequate training and necessary adaptations.

I intend to draft a proposal that will be less vulnerable to repeal and will more strongly encourage full integration of disabled people into WA nations. They have a great deal to offer nations and the WA should encourage that.

For these reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote against this resolution, with the understanding that a stronger resolution will follow.

MoWAA's Original Recommendation

The current resolution at vote would require all schools to be able to accommodate all the various disabilities, which would be a huge cost to education budgets. As those budgets are not unlimited, and there exist limited resources, specialisation would be a far more practical alternative that would achieve the same goals at far less cost. This issue would have been something that could have easily been caught in drafting, which this proposal did not undergo. As passage would cause significant problems in member nation education systems, it would be best to return this proposal for rectifications.

For these reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote against this resolution.

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