Education

Our debate on Wednesday, December 9th was a great success primarily- in fact, almost exclusively- due to the hard work of the participating students. They chose a topic a couple of months ago and under the direction of the captains, Priscilla for the affirmative and Mabel for the negative, proceeded to do all of the research, studying after school and during some lunches.

The auditorium was 3/4 of the way full with maybe 20 classes and 500 people attending. Brett Flater, the coordinator of the Los Angeles Metro Debate League (LAMDL) scored the event. He's still tabulating, but said that it was close, a sign of a good debate.

The only issues was a delay caused by the microphone volume. That glitch robbed the students of their prep time and each teams' final rebuttal.

Riot, from my fourth period class took video, below:

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We held this debate early this year. The kids worked hard on the research and I think did a fine job.

Resolved: Religion has been a benefit to society.

Part 1:

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