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Niece Amy is now at a fancy private school, having followed family tradition by scoring (in my case, scamming) a scholarship. First challenge at the big new place: debating.
Topic: Should the Prime Minister have apologised to the stolen generation(s)?
Amy’s team were assigned the negative case. They won.
Genes, like crime, will out.
Well done Amy!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 03 19 at 11:39 PM • permalinkWell done tothose erudite young ladies.
I scammed a scholarship too - my parents kept getting annual letters saying if master Razor didn’t pull up his scholastic socks they would remove the scholarship. They never did - proabably because as a Uniting Church School they didn’t have the balls to do it because it would have been too nasty. I think I’ve paid for not being metaphorically flogged enough ever since by not pushing myself hard enough.
Amy is following good advice:
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a wonman, I put away childish things.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 19 at 11:52 PM • permalinkEven more pleasing than the victory, is that they actually allowed a debate on the subject.
Next week Amy defeats global warming in a winner take all battle for the universe
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 03 19 at 11:56 PM • permalinkSo can we put her on the ballot for PM?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 03 20 at 12:11 AM • permalinkNice work young lady!
Must have been a good feeling to win.
I recall one of my inter-school debates on the topic of: “That the United Nations has failed the world community”
We argued affirmative, and thrashed the opposition.
Funny this is, it is as applicable now in 2008 as it was then in 1993.
Posted by סטיבן (Steve) on 2008 03 20 at 12:30 AM • permalinkIt’s encouraging that
(a) the school recognised that there are two sides to the question;
(b) the school allowed the debate;
(c) Amy’s team ferretted out information that, according to the dominant paradigm, doesn’t exist;
(d) whoever judged the debate was able to recognise the superior argument.
Posted by s.r.intulom on 2008 03 20 at 12:30 AM • permalink#4 My Mum went to MLC and her sister was school captain and they are great women in their own special ways.
My sisters didn’t attend there for geographical reasons, but that was probably a good thing after some of my experiences with MLC girls, in particular the boarders - very socially educating for an inexperienced city boy.
The real challenge would have been making a cogent case for saying sorry.
That being said: Hercules demonstrated his divine precodity by killing snakes in the cradle. But the mythical “Stolen Generation” beast? I am impressed.
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 03 20 at 01:32 AM • permalinkAnother educational opportunity for young Amy.
It’s always nice to win a debate, but where is the triumphalism and name calling?
Next time Amy is having a debate, be sure to invite us along to heap scorn and abuse on her opponents.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 03 20 at 05:46 AM • permalinkAnd now she’s a discuss champion, too. Well done.
Posted by andycanuck on 2008 03 20 at 08:15 AM • permalinkWell done! Daughter sends her hearty congratulations!
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 03 20 at 08:33 AM • permalinkAhhh, The Blair domination continues.
I am assured a comfortable billet in the coming Blair Dominion, aren’t I?
Nothing grand mind you, just a small Duchy that I can rule with an iron fist is all I’m asking.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2008 03 20 at 10:17 AM • permalinkOT, QABOTA, OLBHITTCTS, but there’s an article today about bone-domed self-appointed desire-benchmark Clive Hamilton which inter alia admires him for being an “early-adopter” of the word “affluenza”.
Now as a bit of a language buff this annoys me. A websearch generally credits John de Graaf with it in 1997, but thanks to my photographic memory, well, dodgy security camera memory, oh alright etchasketch memory, I CLEARLY remember in a Mad Magazine around 1972 a page of funny drawings by Aragones or Jack Davis to illustrate words they’d invented, and one of them was a fat person looking ill and it was “affluenza”. I’ve thrown them all out years ago (actually they were my Dad’s - he read it instead of killing his kids) but does anyone here have a complete set so we can check?And good on you Amy of course.
Posted by ooh honey honey on 2008 03 20 at 10:56 PM • permalink
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