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  • This house, as Veronica, Would accept the offer

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    Veronica is a typical ""nerd"" in a big American high school. Veronica and her two best friends spend their time working hard at school, pursuing geeky extracurriculars (chess, Math Olympiad, debate...), and getting bullied by the school's popular kids. One day, after saving the Prom Queen from being runover by a bus, she offers Veronica to join the popular group, as long as long as she cut off her friends and quit her geeky extracurriculars

    13th Justice V.M. Tarkunde National Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-01-31

  • This house prefers to be born in a middle class family of ecclesialist community over protestant community

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    Ecclesialists emphasize Church as the central transmission of salvation and divine truth with importance towards the authorities and sacraments. They view salvation as a communal process achieved through participation in life of Church with the ordained clergy providing the spiritual direction. Protestants reject centralised authority of the church and view faith and scripture alone as the basis of salvation and authority. They emphasize on personal relationship with god rather than focusing institutionalism of the Church. The view sacraments like baptism and communion as symbols and not grace.

    Intertext Asian Parliament Debate Open 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-01-18

  • This house believes that social sciences subjects should adopt the problem-posing model in basic education in developing countries

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    A problem-posing model emphasizes student-teacher dialogue and contextualized learning. In this model, discussions are heavily based on and directed by students’ lived experiences. For example, history lessons will be taught based on the contexts of their localities.

    6th Mindanao Novice Cup · Round 2 · 2025-01-17

  • This house would prioritise efforts to make mainstream schools more inclusive towards individuals with disabilities, rather than efforts to establish more exclusive schools for individuals with disabilities (eg. Gallaudet University for the d/Deaf, Pathlight School).

    Eunoia Debating Championships 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-01-17

  • This house supports policies that discourage couples with genetic diseases, orthose with a high likelihood of passing genetic diseases to their children, from having offspring. Info: Thalassemia is an inherit!ed blood disorder that affects the production of hemoglobinIn Cyprus, the Church required premarital screening certificates for Thalassemia as a precondition for religious marriage.

    NHSDLC British Parliamentary Open 2025 · 八强赛 · 2025-01-17

  • TH. as Vie, would use the remote

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    You are Vie, a mid-level architect in your mid-30s, married with two children. You struggle to balance a demanding career with family life but dream of achieving success and financial security for your loved ones. One evening, overwhelmed, you encounter a mysterious man who offers you a remote control that can manipulate time and reality. With it, you can skip unpleasant moments or fast-forward through challenges, making your path to success smoother and less stressful. However, every use of the remote causes you to lose the personal growth, and emotional connections tied to the skipped moments.

    CIDA Novice Cup 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-01-11

  • This house, as the parents, would choose to send their child to a private International school (AIS, Moir, Stafford) over a Private (STc, trinity)/Public (Royal, Ananda) local school

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    You are a middle-class couple living in Sri Lanka. You have one son who is now approaching the age of 4 and you are making a decision on which school to send him to. Both of you attended prestigious local schools in Sri Lanka and attribute m large portions of your personality and social life to your 1 time in school. Your son also wishes to pursue sports such as cricket and rugby having shown a liking to these sports thus far in his life. However, your son has been diagnosed with mild dyslexia, inhibiting his ability to comprehend things at quick speed. The doctors say he can overcome this as he grows.

    AIS Debating Championship 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-01-03

  • This house believes that the family should mutilate their child

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    "Blood tax" was a system of taking away male children, usually between the ages of 8 to 10, from conquered Christian lands in the ottoman empire. The ottomans raised the abducted children in the Islamic religion, usually without any knowledge of their origins. In the ottoman empire, boys received military training and when they reached the age of 20, they would be assigned to elite janissary military units. The ottoman army did not accept boys with serious physical defects (eg. A gouged eye, cut hand, etc.). In order to avoid their child being kidnapped, some families intentionally mutilate their children

    AIS Debating Championship 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-01-03

  • This House Prefers secondary schools adopting a classical education model rather than a progressive education model

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    Classical education relies on teacher-led, structured lectures, with minimal student driven discussion or exercises. Subjects are distinct units that are clearly delineated (e.g., math, English, etc) and taught primarily through textbooks. In contrast, progressive education positions teachers as facilitators with a focus on student-led discussion, project-based learning, and experiential learning. Learning is organised thematically around a single topic (e.g., environmentalism, space exploration, etc) and can draw on sources such as news articles, fiction books, documentaries, and academic papers from different areas (science, history, etc.). For the purpose of this debate, secondary schools refer to schools with students from age of 14 to 18.

    Panama World Universities Debating Championships 2025 · Round 1 · 2024-12-27