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2006 Senate Bill 1124 (Mandate high school graduation requirements ) (House Roll Call 347)

Motion by Rep. Chris Ward (R) on March 30, 2006, to give the bill immediate effect. The motion passed in the House (95 to 11) on March 30, 2006. [History, Amendments & Comments]

The vote was 95 in favor, 11 opposed, and 1 not voting
(House Roll Call 347 at House Journal 34)

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Support Support
Oppose Oppose
Not Voting Not Voting
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Legislators (Democrat)
93793%
6946%
1000%
49 total votes
Legislators (Republican)
841684%
138713%
1991%
58 total votes

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The following legislators supported the motion:

Accavitti (D) Acciavatti (R) Amos (R) Anderson (D) Angerer (D) Ball (R)
Baxter (R) Bennett (D) Bieda (D) Booher (R) Brandenburg (R) Byrnes (D)
Byrum (D) Casperson (R) Caul (R) Cheeks (D) Clack (D) Clemente (D)
Condino (D) Cushingberry (D) DeRoche (R) Dillon (D) Donigan (D) Drolet (R)
Elsenheimer (R) Emmons (R) Espinoza (D) Farhat (R) Farrah (D) Gaffney (R)
Garfield (R) Gillard (D) Gleason (D) Gonzales (D) Hansen (R) Hildenbrand (R)
Hoogendyk (R) Hopgood (D) Huizenga (R) Hummel (R) Hune (R) Hunter (D)
Kolb (D) Kooiman (R) LaJoy (R) Law, David (R) Law, Kathleen (D) Leland (D)
Lemmons, III (D) Lemmons, Jr. (D) Lipsey (D) Marleau (R) Mayes (D) McConico (D)
McDowell (D) Meisner (D) Meyer (R) Miller (D) Moore (R) Mortimer (R)
Murphy (D) Newell (R) Nitz (R) Nofs (R) Palmer (R) Palsrok (R)
Pastor (R) Pavlov (R) Plakas (D) Polidori (D) Proos (R) Robertson (R)
Rocca (R) Sak (D) Schuitmaker (R) Shaffer (R) Sheen (R) Sheltrown (D)
Smith, Alma (D) Smith, Virgil (D) Spade (D) Stahl (R) Stakoe (R) Steil (R)
Taub (R) Tobocman (D) Vagnozzi (D) Van Regenmorter (R) Walker (R) Ward (R)
Waters (D) Wenke (R) Williams (D) Wojno (D) Zelenko (D)  

The following legislators opposed the motion:

Adamini (D) Brown (D) Caswell (R) Gosselin (R) Green (R) Hood (D)
Jones, Rick (R) Kahn (R) Moolenaar (R) Pearce (R) Vander Veen (R)  

The following legislators did not vote on the motion:

Stewart (R)

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Most Recent Comments

1) Re: This Is An Improvement [by admin111 on February 2, 2009]


 



I am a actual student that has to graduate with these requirements. I have no clue what the state was thinking when they passed this law. I HATE MATH! I do well in all my other classes except math. I fear that I won't beable to graduate with my class because of them. I passed algebra 1 with a D-. I'm in geometry now and i'm failing it. Most of my class is failing it. (No joke)I guess it would really help if we actually spent more time on the sections. We are going through 1 section a day. We arn't learning crap from it...you can't learn something in one day and be expected to remember how to do it for a long time. That is like learning a new name everyday for 2-4 weeks and be expected to remember all the names that you learn. It would really be nice if we got to choose if we wanted to take math because i'm never going to use this crap. I want to be a police officer...not a rocket scientist. It's not like if I have to shoot someone i'm going to go, "Ok now, I have to hold my gun 90 degrees to the North and and 40 degrees south." Sure, I understand there are some Algebra formulas that I have to use. All the state is doing is hurting kids. The state of Michigan had one of the worst graduation rates with the old requirements. All I can say is that my class is the ginni pig class and when the state relizes that these requirements arn't going to work that my class is going to be screwed. well, most of the people that hate math and isn't good at it. I know the govener is trying to make it easier to pass with the new 4th year classes that I can take after I pass algebra 1, geometry, and algebra 2...but I have to be able to pass all the other math classes before I can take the ones that I will actually use in my life.


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2) All The People That [by Anonymous Citizen on October 14, 2008]
I know that dropped out of high school are now running small businesses and doing quite well. I think that the longer you stay in the state indoctrination camps the dumber you become. The biggest reason for government schools is to create the next group of folks that are dumb enough to vote for the dems/socialists. If they get their way they will rip your child away at 2 or 3 years old to get a head start on the brainwashing, seems that some parents actually are trying to teach their children some common sense and we can't have that in the coming socialist states of amerika.
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3) what! [by Anonymous Citizen on October 13, 2008]
There are choices that we made as teenagers, And no one person, school or law maker had anything to do with it. There are alot of jobs that require no math, Its called a calculator and computer, Family Farms, Business that are run by family,,,Child Care...ect... Half the things that are mandated, are not used in everyday life. You are not to judge the way there life turns out. Life is 90% how you take it and 10% how you make it.... Everyone is unhappy at some point in their life. If you can breathe, you can live. the only thing that should be mandated is sex education, health, Basic math, reading, writing, Gym class, cooking. The rest is not always remembered or used in life.

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