The Grade Six’s Debate

First of all a debate is when two groups of people meet together and argue about any kind of topic they want.  The topic can be something important to the world, country, province, city, neighborhood, park, or school.  For example, they could debate that the provinces should have MEGA SCHOOLS that go from kindergarten to grade 12.  The two groups of people can also debate how much it would cost for the MEGA SCHOOLS how much room would it take or how long it would take to organize.  Those are examples of what a debate is, now let’s move on.

A couple of months ago grade six students went on a fieldtrip spending a week at the Legislature.  During the fieldtrip we did Mock Leg; Mock Leg is when we act out a meeting and debate just like the MLA’s (Members of the Legislative Assembly).  The grade six debated about banning cars once a month.  This law meant that nobody can use their own personal cars once a month; they can use public transportation like taxis, buses, and trains.  I’ll just say this one more time, people could not, REPEAT, could not use their own personal car once a month. 

Each grade six student had to write something that says that this law is useful and good and something that is against the law and bad.  Many people that I knew were against this law for many different reasons.  For the people that are against this law here are some examples of bad things, people being late for work, not being able to make it to someone’s birthday, anniversary, special occasion, and most importantly a family EMERGENCY.  When we first decided to debate on banning cars once a month I was totally against it because what if someone can’t make it to an important family EMERGENCY.  Even though we had a script, it was a great debate. 

Now, I’ve been talking about the bad things of this law here are some good things.  First of all if we had this law, it would cut back on pollution and that is a very good thing because believe it or not, pollution affects our world sixty-eight percent.  Another good thing is that if you use public transit, you can sit back and don’t even have to worry about the road; you can chat with the person beside you and make a new friend and also chat with your family.

Another debate we had at City Hall was, should we have more handicap parking?  I thought that it was a great idea and some people agreed but many chose to disagree.  Again there was a good debate; here are some of the good things they said, more people are getting disabled because of old age or other factors so it would help them if there were more reserved parking.  A bad thing was that, some argued that those people don’t even use the handicap parking; I disagreed because where ever I go I see handicap people using the parking stalls.  

I can’t wait to see your opinions for both of these debates, see you later.

~ Small Iahk

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