Candy should be used as a reward for students
First i would like to thank the judges and the pro for doing this debate... First i would like to introduce my points I. Bribes a. Some child development experts also describe rewards and incentives for good behavior as bribes. Dr. Martin E. Ford of Stanford University does not believe parents should offer rewards when a child behaves, "In the short-run, bribes produce a high degree of effort from children, but they can have negative long-term consequences." ["Parent & Child," Lawrence Kutn...
High School Students Ought Not Be Required to Take Exit Exams
First I Would like to thank my opponent without him this debate would not be possible. Second i would like to restate the resolution that High School Students Ought Not Be Required to Take Exit Exams Which i would define as High School Students Ought not (ought not meaning that they should not have to)Be Required(be required meaning be forced to) Take Exit Exams( As in The tests you must take to graduate) There are three main topics i would like to discuss during this debate First Being th...
Public Schools Should Allow Texting In Classrooms
Rules: 1. Nothing to serious 2. Avoid text walls (don't type much) 3. Keep everything simple 4. Leave out a value and criterion 5. Have Fun! And now starting with my arguments: Texting can disrupt class. Therefore, I negate the resolution: RESOLVED: Public Schools Should Allow Texting in Classrooms I. Texting can distract the student -If the student is texting in class while the teacher is teaching, the student cannot comprehend what is being taught. II. Texting can distract oth...
Resolved: Public high school students in the United States ought not be required to pass standard e
Shauna D'Alessandro, president of the South Hills Area School Districts Association, states that "After 13 years of class work, class participation, term papers, projects and classroom projects, [this graduation requirement] may deny a diploma to children who may not be able to demonstrate proficiency on a standardized test." Today in the United States, several states require students to pass exit exams in order to earn their diploma, but instead of actually achieving their main goal of "signifi...
Students going barefoot to school as a school rule would a good idea.
This debate is about should schools in the United States (grades K-12) have their students go barefoot and not allowing having any students to have any footwear on school campus would be a helpful tactic for student's education (not including swimming classes or sports activities). For an example, students can't wear any footwear like shoes, socks, and sandals on campus for any reason so a student must go barefoot at the start of the school hours until the end of school hours, even if it rains o...
Debate should be a required subject in High School
Many students never have the opportunity to study any form of formal argument. Students would benefit in a variety of ways by being exposed to the debate format. First, they would become more informed consumers, as a fundamental understanding of logic and of fallacious argument would allow them to make more need based and useful decisions in the consumer market. Second, for much of the same premise of the first, students who were trained in logic and debate would be better able to become infor...
vegetarian school lunches
I feel that High school and JH's should feature something other than meats drenched in sauce, ketchup, oils, and salt. Many schools, still are based on the fact that a child will at meat if there is nothing else, or they suppose that you will pack your own lunch if you don't eat meat. I sit with 2 vegetarians at my lunch table and for a week and a half they had nothing but meats in our lunch lines. Now I don't think that they should be able to provide a lunch for kids who cant eat peanut butter,...
A Resolution To Eliminate Texas Top 10% Admittance Rule
Hello this is my first online debate. I wish luck to whomever my opponent is, let's begin shall we. I am here to speak in negation for eliminating the top 10% admittance rule which is a rule that allows the top 10% of a class to get admittance into any College or university of their choice. The rule was passed in 1997 to make sure that there was no discrimination against races when it came to admittance in colleges and universities. The top 10% rule has shown some positive benefits such as 1. s...
Evolution is false, for more than three reasons, these are some of them.
In this debate, I will point out that evolution is false for many reasons. I will begin with Darwin and how he narrowly mindly thought up evolution due to the way he saw the creatures and the universe around us. Darwin was brought up in a rich family, had his college paid for and all was well for him. Like Adam, God made a perfect world for him to live in, all the fruit to eat, no paid, no death, amazing land to live it. Life was at it's full. When Darwin grew up, his father wanted him to go...
Standardized Exit Exams: Lincoln-Douglas Format
Though I will readily admit that this is possibly one of my least favorite LD topics of all time, I want to run my cases for blocking purposes. Plus, I feel as though I have been long absent from DDO. :) I ask that my opponent use LD format, but I'm not going to be a huge stickler about it. In other words, the purpose of running this is two-fold: I want a good debate, but I also want to be able to run it in such a way that helps my kids block out my arguments and a decent neg case. This requi...