At times it felt like the States had slipped into general debate, with long speeches from both sides on the effect that a “pause and review” would have.
Education members gave impassioned pleas about the educational benefits of their model and dire warnings about the consequences of the requete.
Pictured: There is still no sign of this States debate coming to an end.
Deputy Matt Fallaize said the transition plans for already two years into the process would be “ground to a halt”.
Deputy Peter Roffey said if they yield to a vocal minority the States will “prove ourselves too weak to govern”.
The requête, he told States members, was irresponsible, destructive, provided no solutions and was designed as a “wreck-uete”.
Deputy Richard Graham also sounded a battlecry, warning the States against “paralysis by process”.
We will be debating education until Wednesday at this rate and with no real outcome!!
— Deputy Victoria Oliver (@victoria1oliver) March 2, 2020
The amendment would have set up a debate early in the next States term about whether further space should be added at the 11-18 colleges in an effort to address staff concerns and ward off the “policy void” presented by the requete.
The amendment, which would have replaced all the proposals in the requete, would have made the original call for a pause and review null and void.
However, with a vote of 18-18, it failed to gain the majority that is needed for an amendment or requete to be successful.
Pictured top: Deputies Peter Roffey and Matt Fallaize.