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The 2010-11 Competitive Speech and Debate Schedule Support City College Debate- Donate Now The Baltimore City College Speech and Debate Team exists to promote citizenship, teamwork, critical though, and communication skills. Although those skills are taught in the classroom, experience demonstrates that providing students with opportunities for co-curricular competition is an excellent source of motivation. The mission of the coaching staff includes finding tournament opportunities which will both challenge students as well as provide a reasonable opportunity for success. To this end, a wide variety of invitational and league tournaments are scheduled, although no student will attend all tournaments. Each of the opportunities for competition, be it debate, speech, student congress, or mock trial, promotes different skills. To that extent, your student will be encouraged to develop expertise in multiple events. Moreover, we believe that students are students first. Therefore, students are required to meet the academic and attendance eligibility requirements of all co-curricular activities at City. Requirements and Expectations Participation as a member of the Speech and Debate Team is relatively easy. Students are expected to attend a general monthly meeting of the team. In addition, there will be at least two weekly practices that all students should attend for their particular event. We arrange the practice schedule to accommodate the greatest number of students in each event. We are also willing to schedule additional sessions as needed for those students with athletic, musical, work, community or family conflicts. The practice schedule for the 2008-2009 Speech and Debate season will be as follows:
All students who meet membership requirements through competition will become members of the National Forensic League, a national honorary society recognizing excellence in high school speech and debate. The National Forensic League is highly recognized by the majority of college and university admissions offices. Those students who consistently make the effort to attend as many competitions and practices as possible, quickly excel in their chosen event. Those who do excel have an excellent opportunity to represent themselves, The majority of our tournaments are held on Saturdays throughout the year in the Students who sign-up to attend a tournament, are expected to be at school in time for departure of the bus. For students to get on the bus, we must have a signed copy of the Parental Permission Form (enclosed) in my possession. This form will cover all Saturday and weekend tournaments where students will not miss any classroom time. You may, of course, withdraw your permission by notifying the director at any time. Students representing Additionally, accidents and emergencies, although rare, have been known to occur at speech and debate events. To ensure that the health and welfare of our students is protected, please complete and return the enclosed emergency form. Students will not be allowed to attend tournaments unless we have a completed copy of the form. How You Can Help While we endeavor to provide instruction and materials for students to participate at minimal cost, We especially need parent volunteers to help support us in any way that they can. Running this team is an expensive proposition and we are always in need of additional fundraisers. We will also need help covering our judging slots at the tournaments (no experience is necessary) so please do not hesitate to contact Mr. Daniels to become involved at this level. I am very excited that your student wants to be a part of the Speech and Debate Team at Sincerely, The coaching staff of |
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Baltimore City College High School
Speech & Debate Team
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