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New York Debate League!
2017-18 SCHOOL YEAR:
TOURNAMENT DATES:
- April 14, 2018: (Both Divisions: Hackley School)
- May 5, 2018: Championship Tournament
Debate Topics for April 14 Tournament:
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Remove the statue of Christopher Columbus from Columbus Circle.
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Reptiles should not be kept as pets.
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Credit card companies should not process sales of firearms.
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The Olympic Games should include E-sports.
PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS
British International School of New York
City and Country School
East New York Middle School of Excellence
Garden School
Hackley School
Harvey 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
Transfiguration 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."
