Domestic Extemp Example Topic and Source Articles

DEX Extemp example — Do students whose parents exert undue influence (bribes/threats/intimidation) over schools benefit from their parents’ actions?

Celebrity bribery scandal — https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-03-12/coaches-accused-by-u-s-in-scheme-over-college-entrance-exams

Parents who bully schools — https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/spring-2016/parents-who-bully-school/

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https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2016/06/17/the-rude-demanding-parents-who-bully-schools/

Grade grubbing — https://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/grade-grubbing-parents/

NEW Public Forum Rules

Public Forum debaters, please see these new rule changes. Pay special attention to the time structure, new rules for alternating questions and discouraging interruptions in Grand Crossfire, and the rules for specifying identified sections of text when paraphrasing. It is important that you know these rules and demonstrate knowledge of them in rounds. 
https://www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/Public-Forum-Pilot-Rules-2019-2020.pdf 

Debate Database and Acting Scripts

The Debate Database is live!!! It is called DebateZen. It is password protected and ready for public forum debate info. The first entries will be from the Grapevine Classic on September 7, and it will grow from there. Records can include school name, team name, first speaker, second speaker, arguments, impacts, win/loss, reason for judge decision, case summary, and an actual doc of the case. We now have a live entry portal incorporated into our DEBATE RECORDS PAGE on this site for easy access. Debaters, please email me for your login info!

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Acting scripts are now on the SCRIPTS PAGE HERE.↜

And we now have ONLINE JUDGE TRAINING available via email link. We need at least three parents to complete the online judge training before the end of October, so please ask them now and send me their email addresses, so they can complete the online training in plenty of time. ↤↤