Win or lose, the student debaters show their good spirits.
Win or lose, the student debaters show their good spirits.
This photograph captures the joy and enjoy of middle school winners 723X.
Enjoy highlights from the 2021-2022 debate season
The 721K Knights of Reason debaters shared their thoughts on debating this year.
Congratulations to the undefeated 177Q Panthers, high school debate champions (4-0).
Congratulations to the undefeated 723X Golden Hawks, middle school debate champions (3-0).
Students may or may not have seen outdoor dining sheds in person, and it probably depends on the borough they live in. Here is an interactive map that lists all the outdoor dining sheds, by borough and more.
Read about the official New York City program, entitled “Open Restaurants,” which explains how and why restaurants are allowed to use “curbside roadway space in front of their businesses for outdoor dining.”
A New York City driver crashed into this outdoor dining shed. Thankfully, no one was eating there at the time.
The 177Q Panthers debated the 373K Fire Debaters in a round 3 matchup. They debated whether school should start later. The Fire Debaters were pro and the Panthers were con.
And there was a tie score! 92 points for pro and 92 points for con. This has not happened in seven years, and never before for high school teams!
Congratulations to debate coaches Leor Samuels (177Q) and Todd Wilson (373K) on your wins!
Congratulations to the Fire Debaters and the Panthers on your wins!
Here is a photo of the 2020 trophies that were never given out. We didn’t have a championship that year because of the pandemic. In fact, even though our debates continued throughout the pandemic and a year and a half of remote and hybrid learning, the last time that D75 Debate trophies were awarded was in 2019! Well, that is about to change! Behold the new 2022 Middle and High School Debate trophies, to be unveiled this June. Which teams will be come away with the Championship title? Check out the Round Three debates beginning on April 1 to stake your claim!
Once again, the D75 Debate program is ahead of the headlines. The article in NPR tells how teenagers are getting covid vaccinations without telling their parents. This was our first topic for 2021.
Here are the official team names for the 2021-2022 debate season
723X Golden Hawks
17X V01 Squad
17X V05 Warriors
396K Debating Eagles
368K Brooklyn’s Finest Debaters
721K Knights of Reason
373K Fire Starters
94M Amazing Team
177Q Panthers
396K brought in so many spectators and well-wishers to their first-ever debate! Talk about school spirit!
What have we been up to all year? Glad you asked! Check out our flipgrid topics from the past year and see for yourself! (Choose login with google and enter your school email and pw). This year, many students were fully remote, others were hybrid, and some eventually went back to school full time. Whether remote, in-person, or somewhere in-between, our debaters remained persuasive in their arguments and committed to researching their topics thoroughly. Congratulations, D75 debaters on another amazing season of debates!
See you in the fall for season 17….
Greetings, Debaters! The Debate Live Opener will be on Tues, Nov 17 at 10am. All teams and individual debaters are invited to join. You do not need to have a whole debate prepared- just one statement for either the pro or con side is enough to participate. There will also be a drop-in session in the new debate zoom room on Nov 13 at 10am to test things out. To participate, please have your teacher fill out this form.
Hello Debaters! There is a new topic on our Flipgrid page: Should Instagram get rid of likes?
Let us know what you think by recording your response in 60 seconds or less. You will need to login with your school email account. Let’s go!
Live debates are returning this fall, back and better than ever to accommodate students at home, at school, and those doing blended learning. Wherever you are joining from, start getting your team together and get READY TO DEBATE!
Do you remember the Dakota Access oil pipeline debate (“The US should immediately stop construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline,” 2016-2017)? It pitted the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in South Dakota with an oil company who wanted to build an oil pipeline near their land. When we debated this topic several years ago, the pipeline had the “green light” to be built. Now, that light has turned “red.”