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| Abortion, Parental Consent |
| created: 12/02/02, modified: 06/08/05 |
| Should parental consent be required for underage pregnant women to have abortions? |
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| African Languages in African Schools |
| created: 10/31/00, modified: 05/20/09 |
| Should native tongues take precedence in African schools, or should English and other non-African languages be the languages of the school room? |
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| Boarding School |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 04/04/09 |
| Is boarding school beneficial to children? |
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| Busing |
| created: 09/01/09, modified: 09/01/09 |
| Should children be ‘bused’ to schools outside of their neighbourhood, to ensure diversity within schools? |
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| Child Labour |
| created: 12/02/02, modified: 12/02/02 |
| Is the imposition of sanctions on states the best way to end child labour? |
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| Co-curricular activities in schools |
| created: 01/02/09, modified: 01/02/09 |
| Should schools and colleges increase the importance placed on co-curricular activities, so that they are formally recognised as equal to the academic curriculum? |
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| Condoms in Schools |
| created: 09/17/03, modified: 09/17/03 |
| Should publicly supported education programs include the distribution of condoms? |
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| Creationism in Public Schools |
| Debatabase Junior Topic |
| created: 07/30/10, modified: 07/30/10 |
| What should state-funded schools teach about the origins of mankind? Should the teaching of creationism be allowed in classrooms alongside, or as an alternative to the theory of evolution? |
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| Creationism vs Evolution |
| created: 12/02/02, modified: 12/02/02 |
| Should schools be allowed to teach creationism alongside evolution as part of their science curriculum? |
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| Debate, Limits of |
| created: 05/17/03, modified: 05/17/03 |
| Are certain topics inappropriate for debate? |
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| Education Vouchers |
| created: 11/13/02, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Should a voucher system be used to introduce choice and competition between schools? |
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| English language spelling reform |
| Debatabase Junior Topic |
| created: 08/26/08, modified: 06/01/10 |
| Should we change the way words in the English language are spelled, to make them more like the way they are spoken? |
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| Exams |
| created: 11/03/00, modified: 08/15/09 |
| Should examinations be replaced with other forms of assessment? |
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| Faith Schools |
| created: 04/02/02, modified: 04/02/02 |
| Should the state fund schools run by particular faiths? |
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| Graduate Tax |
| created: 04/24/01, modified: 08/25/09 |
| Should Higher Education be funded by a tax on graduates? |
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| Hate Speech on Campus |
| created: 08/31/00, modified: 04/11/09 |
| Is it correct for university authorities to ban hate speech? |
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| Home Schooling |
| created: 05/17/03, modified: 05/17/03 |
| Should parents be allowed to educate their children at home? |
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| Homework, ban |
| Debatabase Junior Topic |
| created: 07/29/08, modified: 07/26/10 |
| Should students be given homework tasks to complete outside school? Or are such tasks pointless? |
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| Military recruiting in schools |
| Debatabase Junior Topic |
| created: 12/19/08, modified: 12/19/08 |
| Should the military be banned from visiting schools to promote the armed forces and recruit new soldiers, sailors and airmen? |
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| Minority Schools |
| created: 01/04/03, modified: 01/04/03 |
| Should there be public schools open to only one race? |
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| Mobile phones, use by children |
| Debatabase Junior Topic |
| created: 06/05/07, modified: 06/19/10 |
| Should children be allowed to own and use mobile phones (cellphones)? |
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| National Testing |
| Debatabase Junior Topic |
| created: 06/20/07, modified: 08/21/10 |
| Should the USA abandon national testing in schools? Or should testing be extended so that the federal government sets the same tests for every school? |
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| Nursery Education for Free |
| created: 04/24/01, modified: 08/24/09 |
| Should the state provide free nursery education for all children? |
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| Overpopulation and Contraception |
| created: 10/02/00, modified: 04/13/09 |
| Is there a global crisis of overpopulation? Is so, is increased use of contraception the solution? |
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| Oxbridge, Abolition of [UK] |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 12/28/08 |
| Should the college fee be abandoned and the special privileges of Oxford and Cambridge be revoked? |
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| Performance-Related Pay |
| created: 10/27/00, modified: 05/17/09 |
| Should professionals be paid according to their performance? |
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| Physical Education |
| created: 09/17/03, modified: 09/17/03 |
| Should Physical Education in schools be compulsory? |
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| Private/Public Education |
| created: 10/02/00, modified: 04/13/09 |
| Should parents have the right to educate their children privately? |
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| Safe sex education in schools |
| created: 05/28/09, modified: 05/28/09 |
| Should "safe sex" be promoted in schools through sexual education classes? Or are lessons that stick strictly to human biology or use abstinence-based programmes to be preferred? |
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| School Uniform |
| created: 11/01/00, modified: 05/27/09 |
| Should schools require their students to wear a school uniform? |
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| School Uniform (JUNIOR) |
| Debatabase Junior Topic |
| created: 04/27/06, modified: 08/29/10 |
| Should school uniform be got rid of? |
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| Selective Education |
| created: 10/13/02, modified: 10/13/02 |
| Are selective schools better for children? Should they be supported and funded by the government, or is it better to have a standard system for all children, regardless of ability? |
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| Selective schools |
| Debatabase Junior Topic |
| created: 12/30/08, modified: 12/30/08 |
| Should children go to different schools depending on their academic ability? |
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| Sex Education |
| created: 10/27/00, modified: 05/17/09 |
| Should children be given sex education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents? How should it be taught? |
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| Sex Education, Abolition of (UK) |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 11/03/08 |
| Should the practice of sex education classes for children under the age of consent in Britain’s schools be abandoned? |
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| Should teachers be allowed to carry guns in school with them? |
| created: 04/09/08, modified: 04/10/08 |
| Should teachers be allowed to carry guns with them to school? what about if a school shooting breaks out the teacher can us it to defend herself? But what is a student like a 2-4 grader find the gun in her desk and it is not on safety or the kid hits the safety button turning safety off and accidentally shoots some one or them self? |
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| Single-Sex Schools |
| created: 11/10/00, modified: 08/20/09 |
| Do boys and girls benefit more from being taught together or separately? |
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| Television |
| created: 09/17/03, modified: 09/17/03 |
| Is television a malign influence on society? |
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| Truancy, punish parents |
| Debatabase Junior Topic |
| created: 05/11/09, modified: 05/31/10 |
| Should the parents of children who don’t go to school be punished? |
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| Wikipedia, force for good? |
| created: 04/20/07, modified: 08/21/10 |
| Is Wikipedia a force for good, or do its weaknesses outweigh its strengths? |
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| World Language |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 12/29/08 |
| Should everyone speak and be taught the same language? What language should it be? |
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