Judgement of debate today

MOTION:
Date:		GOVERNMENT		OPPOSITION
Introduction	Pts	Name 오승민 (Oh Seungmin)		Name 오권석 (Oh Gwonseok)
Delivery	7 /10	Achieved confidence during the debate. But still not powerful.	6 /10	Reading whether than debating.
Arguments	8 /10	Quite adequate considering that this debate wasn’t prepared properly. However there were some generalizations.	8.5 /10	Rebuttal was logical. His argument was acceptable. No flaws.
Notes	Tot 15 /20	1. Students need to speak well in English and EOP helps it.	Tot 14.5 /20	Rebuttal: Do not think English skills will be improved. People do not formally in their day-to-day speech. They only use informal and low level English in daily life. It can’t improve the skills of students. Arg: EOP destroys Korean pride and neglects Korean language for Korean students. It is right for people to learn their mother tongue. Korean skills will eventually decline. KMLA wants students to be fluent in Korean, too.
Rebuttal One	Pts	Name 정다은 (Jung Daeun)	Pts	Name
Delivery	8.5 /10	Unlike the previous two, there was emotion.	7.5 /10	Not dynamic but there was tone.
Arguments	9 /10	Rebutted the LOP very well. The point was clear.	7.5 /10	Interesting but not well elaborated.
Notes	Tot 17.5 /20	Rebutt Rebuttal: If we want to learn difficult English words, we can memorize word smart. It’s casual talking skills we want to improve. We want the fluent English ability. Rebuttal: Not appropriate for developing Korean identity?? EOP is not a forcing students every time. Time is limited. Freshmen are required to take Korean History class. Even international school students are not deprived of Korean identity. Argument: School image. Helpful. Distinguishes KMLA from other high school students. We don’t practice EOP-> we become liars. As our prime minister stated, EOP helps students, and enhances school image.	Tot 15 /20	Rebuttal: 9 hours -> more than half of day when we’re awake. Argument: EOP can deteriorate human relationship. EOP helpers -> catch students using Koreans. Messes friendship. Most of teachers don’t use English -> why catch EOP??? Policy-> relationship btw teachers and students are ruined.
Rebuttal Two	Pts	Name 고지연 (Koh Jiyeon)	Pts	Name 김승찬 (Kim Seungchan)
Delivery	9.5 /10	This is it.	9 /10	Exaggerated but still good.
Arguments	9.5 /10	Very well organized. Pointed out contradiction.	7.5 /10	Quite repetitive.
Notes	Tot 19 /20	Policy -> consider a lot of things. EOP!!! Advocates all three factors what I talked about. 1)      need, 2)justification, 3)efficiency opp did not analyze status quo whatsoever. KMLA has 2 factors. International and domestic leaders. Far from English academies->school should advocate English. EOP harms Korean ability? High school. High school students already formed good Korean ability. Abolishing EOP->better ability to speak Korean??? According to opp, we speak low level. So, we speak low level Korean. Our Korean skills will not increase. CONTRADICTION!! Friendship deterioration -> uncommon. Not even possible if you follow the rules.	Tot 16.5 /20	EOP is disastrous. EOP neglects mother nature. Atmosphere that makes student think that English is most important -> wrong! EOP is like an illusion. Gap between the reality and the ideal. English only policy cannot be established fully. The image. 2nd clash. Does eop increases English skills? Gov says we can learn English skils.
Conclusion	Pts	Name 현진관 (Hyun Jinkwan)	Pts	Name 이창우 (Lee Changwoo)
Delivery	8 /10	Strong emotion but stopped too many times.	8 /10	Better than last debate.
Arguments	8 /10	Layed out well but flow stopped.	? /10	Short.
Notes	Tot 16 /20	Did not prove Korean skills decline. 2nd arg. Human relationship would decline. Could be overcome by students who support EOP.	Tot 16? /20	…..

Creativity

I completely agree with Sir Ken Robinson. Public education truly sucks. We are forced to study the same subjects until grade 10. (in normal schools) Examinations tests us how much we memorized of the subjects we never chose to take. In middle school, I hated the subject "Technology and Household" because I had to memorize stuff what I thought was completely useless. I wasn't planning to weld metals, and I'd suck anyway. And if I did become a person who welds metals, I don't need to know the history of technology to do that. Subjects these days exist just because the government officials never thought of changing or replacing them.


Arts is another point Sir Ken Robinson brought up. A musician surley doesn't need to know what is the meaning of the solution of Schrodinger's equation in Hydrogen atom. People look up to great artists without even knowing why and still discourage their childs of being one. Most of the jobs exist now don't need college graduates. But because everybody goes to college, if you don't go to college you won't get a job because you don't have a degree you don't need. The education system nowdays rank students, fisrt to last, require them to study language and math. An intelligent person is not only people who memorizes or solves math problems well. People who are gifted in music, poems, novels, drawings, dancing - they are intelligent. You cannot force them to take a standardized test and tell them they are idiots. Now that's a good way of destroying talents.


Of course, to some degree diverse subjects should be teached to students. When they're young and when they're not sure what they want to be. Making them experience diverse subjects so they know what they want. But still, not memorizing all the facts. Science class should take place in the lab, not textbooks. Students should grab any instrument and play it in music class.


1. THB students have to take history class mandatorily until high school.
2. THB grading systems should be abolished.
3. THB the number of colleges should be reduced to a place where only 1% of people are allowed to go.

Michael Moore

Michael Moore starts his article by revolting young people. He says he was inspired by them, and since they are oppressed, he will give them the freedom of speech. By his "High School Newspaper."


Although I never really had the urge or the opportunity to write something that would adults severly dislike and be censored. But I didn't think the world was perfect; I believed it should be changed, but never thought I should go to the streets and yell at the president or write something aggressive in my blog. Therefore, I really never felt that the need for the freedom of expression is desperate, because it kind of is already free to express oneself, and I never tried to cross the line.


However I did feel that censorship in Korea had problems when I was listening to music. Some songs are censored for no reason, and many songs are prohibited from being played on television shows for proposterous reasons. And although the government is not restricting everything, it does, certainly, give a message that they're doing a good job. And I agree that many teenagers might have been encouraged to "shut up and study."



Not actually a restriction, but a discouragement. Michael Moore is not neutral nor very logical but he still has a point. He said he heard many students couldn't publish articles they want at schools, and he's making a newspaper what those things don't happen. Sure, we're not living in the Dark Ages, but I don't see any reason to discourage this "High School Newspaper." More freedom. It's what we always need. It wouldn't hurt to make one.


Motions
1. THB that teenagers should have the right to vote.
2. THB that the ideal way of running a country is a direct democracy like Switzerland.
3. THB that books should be censored, making some books inaccessible to children and teenagers.