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How do you go about starting a debate team at your school? thanks!!!!!!!!
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Our class did a lot of in class debates and realized we really enjoyed it. After this we decided we wanted to start a debate team. First make sure that you can find enought students that will be interested in doing so. Then do some research before going to a teacher. Go online and look up infor on starting a debate team so that when you ask a teacher about sponsoring the debate team you can show her how serious y'all are about it and that y'all have researched it. Then go to the school board and discuss it.
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Well, if your school doesn't already have a debate team, it's probably because of one or more of these reasons: (1) They don't think there's enough people interested; (2) They don't have a teacher willing to sponsor it; (3) They don't have enough money for it (costs involved might include paying the teacher for the extra hours, transportation to other schools for debate meets, etc).
With that in mind, here's the steps I'd take:
1) Start talking to other students about it and see how many people would be interested. You'll need to convince the school that there's enough interest to start a team.
2) Ask some teachers and see if any of them would be interested in sponsoring a debate team. (Try the English or History/Civics teachers first; they'd probably be the most into it).
3) Go to your principal or councelor and tell him, "There are about 10 of us who would like to start a debate team, and Mr. So-and-so said he might be willing to sponsor it. Would it be possible to start one?"
That takes care of the first two problems. If money is an issue, find out how much would be needed. Then you could check with the PTA and see if they'd be willing to fund it. Another option is to have the debate team hold some fundraisers.
If you do most of the legwork to get things started, I bet you'll have a pretty good chance of getting it going!
Good luck!
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Make sure there are enough people interested to start the group. Get with a teacher and ask if they wouldn't mind supervising/sponsoring. The debate sponsor at my school is the English teacher.
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Gather the people who are interested in joining, and bring it up at the next school board meeting.
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