Debate.org ought to use Lincoln Douglas formatted debate as required
I'm just going to use this round to set up the debate. I urge the con to do the same as well. So what is Lincoln Douglas (also known as "LD") debate? Well, it's a structered debate used in high school Speech and Debate tournaments. Nationally recognized and practiced, the National Forensics League of America (also known as "NFL") maintains a roling set of rules regarding this debate. For those who don't know the structure of Lincoln Douglas, it's a formatted, timed, alternating speech de...
By 2040, the FG should mandate that all new passenger vehicles sold in US be powered by alt fuels
Please accept if you are willing to have good conversation I stand to negate the following: "Resolved: That, by 2040, the federal government should mandate that all new passenger vehicles and light trucks sold in the United States be powered by alternative fuels." 1. To start of, the fact that we are changing to alternative fuels is bad and means no improvement of the status quo : pollution and oil shortage; What happens is that when you introduce these new vehicles with their alt. fuels,...
Should Sixth form (year 12-13(16 year olds to 19) participate in extra curriculum the school offers?
I believe that sixth formers will further there knowledge by going to extra curriculum actievities. Firstly let me define Extra curriculum - it is activities that are not part of the required curriculum; outside the regular course of study but under the supervision of the school. One of the main points is that no matter if you do not take english and go to english clubs it only broadens your knowledge and is only for 1 hours per week average....
School Uniform
A general debate on whether schools should have a uniform. As I am against and this is my first debate, I will let my opponent make their case first. I look forward to a fun discussion of the topic....
THBT student should learn the third language.
- Only 2 languages aren't enough! Everybody know that student have to learn their local language and English in school. But I think only 2 languages aren't enough. Suppose you are Thai ,and you want to find a good materials which are only in India. You have to contact someone but if he can't speak English and also Thai. How do you do? This is a problem that we have to solve it at the root cause from education in school. Student who learns third language E.G. Chinese ,Hindi ,Spanish , Japanese...
Most Canadians have been indoctrinated to believe they have a democracy
Most Canadians have been indoctrinated to believe they have a democracy and can not produce any hansard record showing when Canadians became free from the BNA Act and colonial rule .To believe Canada is a democracy and you were not indoctrinated you have to produce the following documents: 1. Hansard record of a British bill declaring all Canadians sovereign and free from British rule and the Queen. 2. A copy of a referendum ; stating Canadians vote to be free of the British bill the BNA Act...
It ought to be illegal to require students to work past 10:00 (pm) on a school night.
My least favorite place in the existence of all lively hood without a doubt is the scum that is Kmart... You see, this is where I work on a weekly basis, and I HATE IT! There are several reasons for this, and one of those reasons is their clever system of scheduling. For example, next Tuesday I work from 6:00 p.m. - 12:15 a.m. This would be the week of semester tests by the way. Speaking of which, I work from 7:00 p.m. - 12:15 a.m. the night before semester tests. I think that this is ridiculous...
High school curricula should be focused more than they are at present using Marxist pedagogy.
I have altered the topic of this debate by eliminating the previous argument for communism as an idealistic society being possible. I will put that on another debate, as I have tried it intertwined with the pedagogy debate as well, and that was quite difficult to juggle. Besides speaking about Marxist pedagogy in schools, I will also touch upon how our current situation(in education) has negative effects and how to actually implement Marxist pedagogy to 'fix' them. I am going to focus more on Pa...
Cell Phones Should Be Allowed In School
The bell rings, something happens at school, or you forgot you have a team meeting after school. How do you contact your parents if any of those things happen and there are no phones in the school near you? Cell phones have been banned from most every school all over America. Many people, including parents, think that they should be allowed in schools. They can be very useful most of the days......
Really what is the truth about the earth and how we got here?
20 billion years ago. Nothingness. Then suddenly some unknown atom massed outwards into space, if only we could get our hands on this "atom", as there was space for this explosion to expand into there had to be time and existing matter there before. According to science outside the universe, it's a void where nothing can exist. So how did anything come together to begin with? So far I would say im being logical. Then the next part is chemical evolution, how and where did all these chemicals get...