An edited video of Halle Connors from Wollongong Public School and Angel King from Lakelands Public School, two students from the team of five that won the State Debating Championship. They share their main arguments from the grand finals against the topic: "that kids in year 5 and above should have to have a paid job for one afternoon a week". Video by Marlene Even
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00:00 Okay, so we had three main arguments in our debate,
00:04 which was the stakeholders being forced
00:06 and the professionals.
00:07 So to start off with being forced,
00:09 we think that one of our main arguments
00:11 was that they're gonna be forced to do this.
00:13 So like kids aren't gonna be really much willing
00:15 and they don't have like a choice or a voice to do this.
00:18 Our second main point was like the professionals.
00:22 'Cause if you think about it now,
00:25 New South Wales is short staffed in teachers.
00:27 So they aren't gonna have enough professionals
00:29 to teach them these skills to learn in the workforce.
00:32 And along with that is you might think
00:35 that more work is getting done,
00:36 but really if you think about it, it's gonna be less
00:39 because kids are still learning the fundamental life skills.
00:42 And now onto like one of our main last arguments,
00:44 which was of the stakeholders.
00:46 So the stakeholders included like the students,
00:49 the parents, so I guess those were the two main ones
00:52 and the professionals.
00:53 So our argument of the students was like
00:56 the disability students and like low income students
00:59 won't be able to like do these jobs as much
01:02 because like, you know, or like again with the professionals,
01:05 the professionals won't be able to look after them as much.
01:07 So main rebuttal was like, so they said like,
01:11 oh, we're doing this to prepare them for the workforce.
01:14 So we think like they can still do this
01:16 when they're teenagers
01:17 and they're more capable of doing this.
01:19 - Yeah, because like teenagers have like
01:21 more mental stability and space in their mind
01:25 to learn these skills, to be in the workforce,
01:28 but kids really don't.
01:30 - And kids are like too young to do this.
01:32 And yeah, we think this was like
01:33 our main arguments and rebuttal.
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