Debate Club

As high school starts, there will be lots of new opportunities to socialize and get to meet new interests. For example, at Fraser Heights Secondary, there are fifteen clubs. Personally, I’m only interested in one of them, which is the one that I've already checked out, the debate club.

So far, I've attended two meetings to the debate club, held in room 216. Debate is basically arguing with the other side. For example, if we had a debate topic like “THBT(this house believes that)smoking should be banned from public areas”, there would be two teams, team opposition and team proposition. Basically, team proposition will argue with opposition, and proposition is always the side that believes in the topic, so in this case, proposition will believe that smoking should be banned from public spaces, and opposition will argue against that.

Due to the abundance of club members, our club mentors, Vicky and Kevin, have separated the club into two categories, experienced debaters and beginner debaters. Of course, being in grade eight, my partner and I were split into the beginners club, led by Vicky. So far, the only practice we've had was doing a debate with another team from the beginner’s club. However, we didn't have a judge to determine the winner of the debate.

In the debate club, we will have lots of opportunities to compete in tournaments, such as the UBC tournament, which is imminent, or travel to other cities for competitions.