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SAFETY ON THE PLAYGROUND:
http://www.kidsafensw.org/playsafety/index.htm

HSC RESULTS:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/classmate/hsc-class-of-2007-the-smartest/story-e6frewti-1111115155579 http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/top-marks-again-but-class-is-over-for-highachieving-principal/2006/12/07/1165081092042.html Since 1995 James Ruse Agricultural School has been top on the HSC results ladder. That's added up to 13 years (to 2008) in a row!

BULLYING:
http://spi.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/21/1/22 http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1403896?UserKey=

Old Speeches:
(Please add links to any previous debating speeches that you think are good -preferable if you have written them yourself, or if they have won you a debate-, it will help any newbies to debating.) Too many responsibilities can end in a disaster. Good morning, before I begin my case I would like to show why the other teams whole case is invalid.

The first speaker stated that

This is clearly not a valid point because

The first speaker also mentioned that

This point is obviously not possibly true because

The first speaker did also say that

How can this be true when

In the second speakers case she mentioned that

This is clearly flawed because

Another thing the second speaker led you to believe is that

But this is clearly flawed when

Now when our point about Was rebutted they said

But how does that make any sense when

This point that was rebutted by the opposing team about the

Doesn’t make sense when

Now that I have shown you why the affirmative teams case is a clearly flawed and invalid, I will show you why you should prefer our arguments.

My first speaker talked to you about the fact we have enough school responsibilities as it is. This is entirely true. Imagine if you had 4 hours of homework every night of the week that had to be handed in each day at our age. This would be too much homework and would stress us out !

My first speaker’s second point was about pets and responsibilities with taking care of them and treating them well. The last thing you want is to have forgotten to feed your fish 3 days in a row. Imagine when you come home from school, you check the tank and your fish is floating on the surface, dead. Sad yes, but that’s what too many responsibilities do.

My second speaker said that we have too many responsibilities in relation to litter. We have Clean up Australia day and everyone already throws rubbish in bins, so there is no need for us to have more rubbish responsibilities.

Her other point was that most of us have just the right number of after school activities to do. Any more than your parents think you can handle and you’ll probably have to give some up – maybe your favourite one!.

Now, as our team line says - some responsibilities are good but too many responsibilities can end in **disasters**! Disasters can include – not doing any of your activities as well as you could do, if you had to do less; doing everything to a mediocre level without enough time to excel in things that you may otherwise do better; not finishing some tasks ; becoming stressed or tired from having too much to do; losing your temper; not having fun but regarding everything as hard work, or getting sick from taking too much on. Some of these results are inevitable if we have too many responsibilities. Children have enough responsibilities today – at school, after school, with our pets, at home and participating in national campaigns. We don’t need more responsibilities. We need to be able to enjoy our childhood and not be too burdened by more than we can handle Too many responsibilities can end in a disaster. I’m exhausted even talking about this – enough is enough!

News Stories:
(Any current news stories that you think will be relevant in upcoming debates, please post the links here!)

Australian Government:
Type: Democracy Current PM: Julia Gillard Opposition leader: Tony Abbott Established as not an English government: 1901

Other Stuff:
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