Our first 2016 debate!

Today, the debating team challenged Campsie Public School to determine if “competition is a bad thing”. We were affirmative, which means we agreed that competition is a bad thing. Some of our arguments were that:

  • competition can be stressful and can lead to low self esteem as there is a 50% of chance of being the loser
  • low self esteem can lead to depression, which leads to bullying, which leads to suicide
  • rivalry and tension is caused during competitions

Our feedback from the adjudicator was that we used high modality words, had strong arguments, and were very confident speakers. After a very close debate, we were unfortunately defeated, but we made our school and teacher very proud!

 

2 thoughts on “Our first 2016 debate!

  1. Well done Mrs Kassem and Belmore South PS debating team. You should all be proud of your hard work and dedication.

  2. great job :)))))

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