its really embarrassing to criticize someone else’s use of a word that you can neither spell nor define (although “a priori” is very frequently used incorrectly in debate)

As anyone knows that the majority of lynbrook runs team cases. I believe this is not educational because:

1. They will not know how to properly formulate arguments in response to their oppenents case if that person runs a unique position that they do not have blocked out, preventing them from competitive success. For example at novice nationals (iowa) the team ran a case about nuclear war. They were successful in prelims but it ended up hurting them for two reasons.

A. Judges had heard the argument so many times that it was just repetative, and eventually they started dropping it, or they gave a paradigm about how if you run that argument it will kill your speaks.

B. Every team had heard the argument and decided to majorly block it out, so that the lynbrookians would not advance very far in outrounds.

2. They will not be able argue the case that dave made for them because they might not fully comprehend what it says or how it functions within the round. To use the same example at novice nationals i was judging a lynbrook kid that extended that argument through 6 response. Those responses took out the link from ED to nuc. war but the kid said life was a prereq. to everything, thus apriori and their sole voting issue, which is invalid for two reasons.

A.The correct term would be Prima Facie (or however it is spelt) and the term apriori acording to kant is expierence learned from knowledge or whatever it is hard to explaind, which the kid made no link into.

B. Even if i accept that life is a prereq. to anything and everything i still wouldn’t affirm because the links were taken out and the case was mostly taken out. This is supposed to emphasize that the novices don’t know how things properly function.

Tripti said, “I like the fact that our team is structured to also emphasis learning and critical thinking” but i would for the most part disagree because there is another way that is more educational.

1. Get the kids into small groups with one varsity member and have them go through case ideas and maybe a brief outline, so as to avoid the novices getting frustrated but they will still be able to know the idea of the case and will obtain the skill of case writing but still have the spirit to keep debating.

OR just talk with them and let them work the case out THEN critique it so they will eventually become self-suficient

Your best lynbrook.

this team has become my family, and i’ll miss you all more than i can say.

- lynbrook sm

high school district and cfl love :)

~Ankur

How freaky that we are now moving to the Highland Park area of St. Paul.

mmhmm…