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New York Debate League
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New York Debate League!
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2019-2020 School Year
TOURNAMENT DATES:
- Novice Debate October 5, 2019 (WESS)
- November 2, 2019 (WESS and Speyer Legacy School)
- December 7, 2019 (WESS and Dalton)
- January 25, 2020 (Hackley School and WESS)
- March 7, 2020 (Nightingale-Bamford School and BISNY)
- Championship Debate May 2, 2020 (Location TBD)
CLICK TO REGISTER FOR THE March 7 DEBATE
topics for the MarcH 7 debate:
1. "Voluntourism" does more harm than good.
- For this topic, please use the following working definition of "voluntourism" for all teams: the practice, often among secondary school students, to participate in voluntary or service work, often internationally.
2. NYC subways should be free.
3. High school should start later in the day.
click to view the topics archive
PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS:
- British International School of New York
- City and Country School
- Dwight School
- East New York Middle School of Excellence
- Ethical Culture Fieldston
- Garden School
- Hackley School
- Harvey School
- Hoboken Charter School
- IS 220
- LREI
- NEST +m
- Nightingale-Bamford School
- Our Lady of Good Counsel
- School for Global Leaders
- Speyer Legacy School
- The Anderson School
- The Dalton School
- The Island School (PS/MS 188)
- The School at Columbia University
- Transfiguration School
- United Nations International School
- Unity Preparatory Charter School
- West End Secondary School
Debate Team from the Hackley School wins 2016 English-Speaking Union Middle School Debate Championship Tournament
NATIONAL NEWS – posted May 1, 2016
The Hackley School, Stephen Fitzpatrick, Kiri Fitzpatrick, Hannah Ostfield, Alex Goldman
The English-Speaking Union Middle School Debate Program capped off a successful fifth year with its annual Championship Tournament, which took place at Stone Bridge Middle School in Allentown, NJ, on April 16, 2016. All six ESU Middle School Debate Program leagues participated bringing together 250 debaters from 29 schools from New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C.
The English-Speaking Union Middle School Debate Program teaches the fundamentals of argumentation and debate to students in grades 5-8. Established in 2011, the program now includes three ESU-sponsored leagues in New York, two in New Jersey and one in Washington, DC. Some 50 public, private, parochial and charter schools participate in the program, engaging more than 1,000 teenagers annually in weekly after-school debate activities designed to develop and hone student's public speaking, critical thinking, listening and debating skills.
The New York Times features ESU Middle School Debate
The ESU is pleased to share today's The New York Times article, "A Diverse Mix of Pupils, Learning Civilized Dissent," featuring the ESU Middle School Debate program's New York Debate League. Now in its fourth year, the program, designed to help young adolescents develop critical thinking and language arts skills through public speaking, has reached more than 2,300 students in grades 5 to 8 in New York and New Jersey. There are nearly 900 individual debates through this program annually.
The article underscores one of the Middle School Debate program's strengths—bringing together students from various backgrounds that, as Brianna Scott (a seventh grader at Success Academy Harlem West) says, "prepare[s] you to go out into the world."
