Congress Topics for Feb 10, 2011 meet

The next meet id Feb 10, 2011 at Hanover High school. Congress topics are listed below.

Please submit bills as a comment to this post. All bills are due by 8PM on Monday Feb 7th.

Domestic Repeal the Twenty-Second Amendment.

International The United States should support Sudanese independence.

Virginia The Commonwealth of Virginia should legalize prostitution.

Economic Replace the progressive tax system with a regressive or proportional tax system.

Congress Topics for Dec 9th @ LC Bird

Domestic
Universal Excise Tax on Unhealthy Foods & Activities

International
Airport Security & Passenger Rights

Virginia
Make Cyberbullying a Criminal Offense

Economics
Increase of Unemployment Benefits

Scripts are allowed at Nov 11 meet.

Well the ayes have it...for the next meet we will allow the use of scripts in DI, HI, Duo and storytelling.

Thanks to everyone for responding!

Student Congress Topics for November 11, 2010

Please post your bills/resolutions as a comment. All bills are due Monday Nov 8th at 6PM.

Domestic
Repeal U.S. Military “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy

International
Direct U.S. Intervention in the Mexican Border Chaos

Virginia
Join California’s Decision to Legalize Marijuana

Economic
Universal Public Housing Regardless of Income Level

2010 - 2011 Meets

TNT @ Godwin Thu 10/21/2010 4:30 PM
TNT @ Hanover HS Thu 11/11/2010 4:30 PM
TNT: LC Bird Thu 12/9/2010 4:30 PM
TNT @ Hanover HS Thu 2/10/2011 4:30 PM

Public Forum Rules

We will be using the VHSL rules for Public Forum

(VHSL Debate Rules - Public Forum rules start on page 152)

Please make sure you read over these before Thursday since there are some differences between VHSL and CFL or NFL.

Next Meet @ Godwin HS

Hi folks! We had a great kick off at the expo last night. In total we had nine schools and over 80 students!! I hope everyone found this helpful- I know for us it got my kids rellt excited about competing.

Our fist official meet is on Oct 21 at Godwin HS. Sign in starts at 4:30 and we should start rounds by 5:00. We will end and have everyone on the road by 8PM.

Please contact me at: rdovi (at) hcps.us if you have any questions.

Registration:
Please e-mail me debate and forensics entries by 6:00 on Monday Oct 18th. Please make sure to include categories!

Judges:
You are responsible for suppling judges. Unfortunately our schedule is very tight at these meets. If you do not bring the required judges your students might not be able to compete. In debate it is 1 judge per 2 entries or fraction thereof (1 PF team counts as 1 entry), and 1 per 5 or fraction thereof in forensics.

So if you have 1 LD and 1 PF and 3 forensics students you will need 3 judges.

Congress:
Congress topics are pasted below. Please post bills as a comment to the blog site ( http://richmondtalks.blogspot.com/2010/10/next-meet-oct-21-2010-godwin-hs.html )

They must be posted by Monday at 6PM. You are responsible for bringing copies for your team. Any bills posted after the cutoff time cannot be used in competition.

Domestic : Illegal immigration problems in the US can be decreased.

International: North Korea’s change in leadership will provide a new opportunity for peace and cooperation with the US.

Virginia: Public School dances should be eliminated due the rapid increase of ‘raunchy’ dance moves and teenage drug use.

Economic: US Health Care will not be able to cover all citizens.

Next Meet - Oct 21, 2010 @ Godwin HS

Post Congress Bills here - please post bills as a comment to this post.

The due date is Monday Oct 18 at 6PM. any bill posted after this time cannot be considered for competition.

TNT Schedule for 2010 - 2011 School Year

Here are the dates for the 2010 2011 TNT season.

Oct 7 TNT Expo @ PHHS
Oct 21 1st meet @ TBA
Nov 11 2nd meet @ TBA
Dec 9 3rd meet @ TBA
Feb 10 last meet @ TBA

Planning meeting for 2010- 2011

Coaches will meet to plan for next year's season on August 19, 2010 at 10 AM.

We are meeting at the Panera Bread near Short Pump Town center.

Panera
Short Pump Town Center (#882)
11703 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23233
(804) 364-6040 - Phone
(804) 364-6044 - Fax