First Speaker Affirmative Team

1) INTRODUCTION: Good morning teachers and students. The

topic to todays debate is
__________________________________________________________.

We the Affirmative team agree with this statement because

____________ (say your team line)_____________________________

2) TEAM SPLIT: As first speaker of the Affirmative team, I will be

explaining ____________________________________________ .
My second speaker (name) will explain _____________________
and (name) my Third speaker will sum up our teams case and prove
to you that ____________________________(Restate the topic from
your point of view).

3) BEGIN YOUR ARGUMENT

4) FINISH BY RESTATING THE TOPIC OF THE DEBATE

5) THEN SAY YOUR TEAM LINE

6) SIT DOWN DO NOT SAY THANK YOU

First Speaker Negative Team

1) INTRODUCTION: Good morning teachers and students. The

topic to todays debate is
__________________________________________________________.

We the negative team do NOT agree with this statement because

____________ (say your team line)_____________________________

2) TEAM SPLIT: As first speaker of the negative team, I will be

explaining ____________________________________________ .
My second speaker (name) will explain _____________________
and (name) our Third speaker will sum up our teams case and prove
to you that ____________________________(Restate the topic from
your point of view).

3) REBUTT Before I begin with my teams argument, let me first

correct some errors made by the first speaker of the affirmative
team. The affirmative team would have you believe that
.. However, this is not correct because

4) RESTATE YOUR TEAM LINE

5) BEGIN YOUR ARGUMENT

6) FINISH BY RESTATING THE TOPIC OF THE DEBATE

7) THEN SAY YOUR TEAM LINE

8) SIT DOWN DO NOT SAY THANK YOU

Second Speaker Affirmative Team

1) INTRODUCTION: Good morning teachers and students. We the

affirmative team strongly believe that _______________(state the
topic) ____________.

2. REMIND: My first speaker (say their name) has explained to you

about (Briefly summarise what you first speaker talked about to remind
the audience.__
As second speaker I will be talking to you about _____(your point) _.

3) REBUTT: But before I begin, let me first correct some errors

made by the negative team. Now, the negative team would have you
believe that --------------------------------------. However, this is not the
case (now you have to explain to the audience why the negative
speaker was wrong!)

4) TEAM LINE Say your team line again.

5) BEGIN YOUR ARGUMENT

6) FINISH BY RESTATING THE TOPIC, YOUR TEAM LINE

AGAIN THEN SIT DOWN. (DO NOT SAY THANK YOU
Thorough re-think needed on tuition classes

The government of the day must take cognisance and ownership of the actual state of
education in schools. The BN coalition party machinery, in particular the Education
Ministry, must in earnest re-examine why parents are finding it absolutely necessary
to put their school-going children through private tuition classes.

These past thirty over years private tuition centres have been mushrooming all over
the country. It certainly is another unnecessary multi-billion ringgit industry that is
thriving out of a nearly failed education system in the country.

Parents in their commitment to give their off spring a sound future are not backing
off. Every parent ensures that their children - even those in primary schools, go for
private tuition. Without tuition classes, their children are certain to fall way behind in
class and eventually complete the years of compulsory schooling without a certificate.

Hence, parents will swear that this or that tuition centre is the best in town and attest
with testimonies of how their sons and daughters got through right into university
because of the tuition classes.

The question is why do we need those two to three hours of tuition two or three times
a week in order to pass exams when the children have been spending a good six hours
every day five days a week, every week in school?

Obviously in school they are not learning anything; they are not able to comprehend;
they are not getting assistance from teachers; they are not motivated to grasp the
subjects. Hence the need to go for tuition to better prepare for passing exams. Right?

Parents need to wake up. They need to ask themselves why they are allowing
themselves to be victims of a failing education system. They need to re-examine the
increasing dependency on tuition when their children are spending almost half their
waking hours in school.

The Education Ministry must be honest and courageous enough to re-evaluate the
system without fear or vested interest. If you are truly into creating a nation that is
resilient for the future and swear you subscribe to transformation and caring for our
young minds, then the education that our kids get in school should suffice to make the
students aspire for excellence. You do not need private tuition classes to do that that
miracle-saving act.

In actual fact, if tuition classes can produce such good results despite the short
learning hours, then why waste time, money and resources having full-time schools?
Maybe all schools should be just converted to tuition centres.

Unfortunately, parents keep this unhealthy and unnecessary practice alive by

patronising tuition centres and not demanding that the government of the day bring
back the glory of schools and teachers and teaching methodologies that were the pride
of the nation before the 1970s.

Unfortunately, too, teachers who are given good salaries in school have taken tuition
classes more seriously and passionately. That extra and unlimited income from giving
tuition makes a substantial difference for their wealth creation dreams.

In the early years of nationhood, weaker students would be given extra coaching
classes by teachers for free. Many schools, too, had student clubs where the more
capable learners would stay back after school to help the weaker students, with
teachers moderating or supervising these sessions. And mind you, the government did
not give any allowance or incentives for all these caring concern that teachers
demonstrated.

Today, despite the government spending multi-millions of ringgit for education,

including introducing all kinds of smart schools and smart buildings, we find that
schools are not the place where students learn to master the subjects. The tuition
centres are today the places of learning and understanding. And it comes at great cost
and burden to parents.

Perhaps parents should pull up their socks and roll up their sleeves to fight this tuition
menace that does not make sense of the whole purpose of having schools.

The prevailing argument that schools cannot and do not have the means to address the
needs of weaker students is a whole lot of crap. Such arguments simply mean that we
have allowed our schools to fail and keep failing by our supporting of the tuition
industry.

The question is why is it that students who attend international schools do not have to
attend tuition and yet excel?

We have to be courageous enough to be honest to the core. Our school systems have
broken down. We do not have the right people for the right job. There is too much
politicking that has crept deep into the veins of education. The bureaucracy that
permeates and webs around schools has made teachers to be de-motivated.

Policies and constantly changing directives that have a political motive and agenda
spun around, have made teachers end up doing the bare minimum.

Greed to make money at the expense of the failing system further drives more and
more teachers to moonlight as private tuition providers.

Blinded and unthinking parents meanwhile allow themselves to be permanent victims

of a failed education system, and end up fervently subscribing to the tuition system.

When you have extinguished passion from within the corridors of teaching and
learning, you have already hung the education of our young.

Parents, what is your take on this?

Having private tuition also has its disadvantages. Sometimes tutors provide additional
homework on top of those given by teachers in school. The extra homework from
tutor is an added burden to the students.
Sometimes, tutors can arrive at the wrong timing, For instance, the students are not in
the mood to learn or have gone through a hard day work in school and are, therefore
mentally feel tired. Despite in such a bad timing, the tuition sessions may still have to
carry on, which make it unfruitful.
Private tuition can be a financial burden to parents who are poor. However, when the
student is a slow learner who needs a tutor outside school, tuition is a
necessary evil.Some students treat their tutors as a walking dictionary, expecting them
to furnish answers to the homework given by school without thinking through the
solutions by themselves over time. This can make them mentally lazy.
There are some parents who have unreasonable expectations. They insist that their
children engage private tutor even though their children perform well academically.
In conclusion, it is good to have private tuition provided the parents can afford and the
students to find the tuition session is beneficial to them. The benefits are plentiful if
parents manage to find a good tutor who can value added by playing various roles to
help their students to achieve

Private tuition can be a financial burden to parents who are poor. However, when the
student is a slow learner who needs a tutor outside school, tuition is a necessary evil.
Some students treat their tutors as a walking dictionary, expecting them to furnish
answers to the homework given by school without thinking through the solutions by
themselves over time. This can make them mentally lazy - See more at:
8 hours of school and then tuition: Is your child learning anything?

I was quite disturbed to hear that Haroon Tariq - the student who
secured 38 As in IGCSE has opened up a tuition centre where he
intends to offer paid tuition for O and A level subjects.
It is indeed sad that such a brilliant mind is encouraging a trend like after
school classes. This article by no means serves to undermine the
accomplishments of the aforementioned student, but to highlight the
implications of the overall growing trend of private tuition in Pakistan,
whose endorsement by Haroon is pitiful.
In my opinion, after-school tuition are a handicap, or put it more
appropriately, an addiction for students. Once a child develops the habit of
getting spoon fed by tuition teachers, his intellectual abilities begin to decline.
He no longer strives to find solutions to the problems he faces in his studies,
but instead looks towards the aid he expects to receive in the evening from the
academy.

A line from the online advertisement of Haroons academy reads,

Your only job will be to revise the material; the extraction of relevant material
is up to us.
This is the worst form of spoon-feeding one can imagine and those falling for
such taglines are committing intellectual suicide. It is through the practice of
extraction of relevant materials and other such intermediary activities that
actual learning takes place.

I remember studying for my O level Geography paper. The subject was not
offered in my school (or any other school I knew), and thus it was impossible
to find someone who had previously appeared for this particular subjects
examination. Yet, instead of going to a tuition centre, I went through the
course syllabus and searched online for relevant books. After going through a
number of book reviews, I finalised a couple of course books and bought them
from the local bookshop.

I do understand that such measures of self-study are difficult and students can
easily get confused or worse, distracted. There were instances when even I
became unsure of whether I was on the right track or not, but this where my
true learning took place. After studying independently, I not only scored an A*
but was also awarded Top in the World in Geography certificate by the CIE.

As a student who never succumbed to the pressure of after-school tuitions I

can say one thing for sure; students who become accustomed to
tuitions try and find further shortcuts and this habit continues even through
university level.
Until a student realises that there is no option other than studying, striving
and working hard on their own, they will never think that the struggle is
worthy and will always take the easier way out. Working hard and seeing the
results can change a persons approach towards life. Allama Iqbal gives a
beautiful comparison between getting end results through short cuts and
through hard work stating that;

Jachtey Nahi Bakhshay Hoye Firdous Nazar Mein Jannat Teri Pinha Hai
Terey Khoon-e-Jigar Mein

(The heaven, which was given as a gift to Hazrat Adam (AS) before the
creation of this world, did not have that charm and beauty which a self-
created paradise on Earth (through hard work) would have)
Another package offered by Haroon was the;

Revised Package: Full course in four months

This is a clear violation of the official CIE stance which says that O level
syllabuses are designed on the assumption that candidates have about 130
guided learning hours per subject over the duration of the course.
Furthermore, these kinds of convenience store packages also serve as
incentives to students be sloppy throughout the school year and just go for
tuition for four months to cover the entire course.
After-school tuition are also detrimental to the health of students. Studying
for eight hours continuously in school and then going to tuition centres in the
evening is inhuman, to say the least. Nowadays, parents have even started
sending children in primary school for evening tuition! They can barely talk
yet and are already being thrust into the big bad world of competitors? I have
relatives in my family who do the same and it is beyond my comprehension
how this activity is relied on not just by students but by their parents too!
When questioned, the usual response from parents is that they want their
child to perform the very best in tests.

I have just one question for such minds. Do we want a nation full of
brilliant little test takers?
Wouldnt it be better if the students spent the same time in the evening
playing sports, chit-chatting with their parents, or just reading some non-
course books instead? This would not only help them maintain their social
presence but will also aid them in their academic performance. A healthy body
and mind can perform better than an overworked one and only an active mind
can perform better. Tuition make your mind lazy; dont encourage this
dependency in students!
Tuition classes a waste of money and time, says straight-A student

Tuition classes do not ensure students get excellent result in examinations, but by
paying attention to what is taught by teachers in school classrooms will, said Natasha
Mohd Izari, who scored 8As in her Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) examination.
She regarded tuition classes as a waste of time and money.
What is important is to have the initiative and desire to excel. Attending extra classes
held in school and paying attention in class, as well as doing my own revision at
home, are enough for me, she said when met by Bernama after getting her PMR
result at Sekolah Menengah Convent Bukit Nanas (CBN) yesterday.
Natasha, 15, also attributed her success to constant study. Her schoolmate, Nor Atikah
Md Aris, 15, who also scored 8As, said students had their own technique of studying
and hers was the last-minute study.
I have no problem studying at the last minute. I also attended the extra classes held
in school and also went for tuition classes, she added.
N. Dharshana, 15, also from CBN, who scored 7As, said she prepared early for the
PMR examination and paid attention in class.
Meanwhile, SMK Wangsa Melawati student, Azira Zulaikha, 15, said she was
surprised to have scored 8As in the PMR as she did not fare well in the trial
examination.
However, the result of the trial examination prompted me to work harder, she
added.
Her schoolmate, Lee Jie Xie, 15, said that only through hardwork and determination
could one excel.
Even if there is a study time-table, but if we do not follow, it will be useless.
Likewise, for those sent to tuition classes, if they are not interested to study, they gain
nothing, she added.
Adrian Ong Wei Shun, 15, from SMK Seksyen 5, Wangsa Maju, attributed his success
to doing a lot of revision and exercises at home. He scored 7As.
Second Speaker Negative Team

1) INTRODUCTION: Good morning teachers and students. We the

negative team strongly disagree with the topic . That .
_______________(state the topic) ____________.

2. REMIND: My first speaker (say their name) has explained to you

about (Briefly summarise what you first speaker talked about to remind
the audience.__
As second speaker I will be talking to you about _____(your point) _.

3) REBUTT: However, before I continue with my teams case, let

me first correct some errors made by the affirmative team. Now, the
affirmative team would have you believe that
--------------------------------------. However, this is not the case
(now you have to explain to the audience why the affirmative speakers
were wrong!)

4) TEAM LINE Say your team line again.

5) BEGIN YOUR ARGUMENT

6) FINISH BY RESTATING THE TOPIC TO SUIT YOUR

NEGATIVE POINT OF VIEW,

7) SAY YOUR TEAM LINE AGAIN

8) SIT DOWN. (DO NOT SAY THANK YOU

Third Speaker Affirmative Team

1) INTRODUCTION: Teachers and students. The topic of todays

debate is
_________________________________________________________.
It is obvious that there is a lot that we need to do to maintain our
environment. No-one is arguing that point. However, the negative
team seems to be very wrong on a number of issues.

2) LOTS OF REBUTTAL : As third speaker of the affirmative

team, it is my job to correct those errors.

The negative team is wrong in suggesting that

This is wrong because

The negative team has also said that ..

This is also wrong because .

(You need to point out everything that you think is wrong about the
oppositions comnments and then say why it is wrong. Your job is
convince the audience that your team, the affirmative team is right!)

3) SUMMARISE (Now you have to briefly summarise your teams

points to remind the audience that you are correct)
Teachers and students, the affirmative team strongly believe that
(restate the topic). My first speaker (name) has explained to you
about
My second speaker (name) has explained to you that
And I have shown you that most of the comments made by the
negative team are wrong.

4) RESTATE THE TOPIC

5) RESTATE YOUR TEAM LINE

6) SIT DOWN (DO NOT SAY THANK YOU!)

Third Speaker Affirmative Team

1) INTRODUCTION: Teachers and students. The topic of todays

debate is
_________________________________________________________.
It is obvious that there is a lot that we need to do to maintain our
environment. No-one is arguing that point. However, the negative
team seems to be very wrong on a number of issues.

2) LOTS OF REBUTTAL : As third speaker of the affirmative

team, it is my job to correct those errors.

The negative team is wrong in suggesting that

This is wrong because

The negative team has also said that ..

This is also wrong because .

(You need to point out everything that you think is wrong about the
oppositions comments and then say why it is wrong. Your job is
convince the audience that your team, the affirmative team is right!)

3) SUMMARISE (Now you have to briefly summarise your teams

points to remind the audience that you are correct)
Teachers and students, the affirmative team strongly believe that
(restate the topic). My first speaker (name) has explained to you
about
My second speaker (name) has explained to you that
And I have shown you that most of the comments made by the
negative team are wrong.

4) RESTATE THE TOPIC

5) RESTATE YOUR TEAM LINE

6) SIT DOWN (DO NOT SAY THANK YOU!)

Third Speaker Negative Team

1) INTRODUCTION: Teachers and students. The topic of todays

debate is
_________________________________________________________.
You have heard two very different side to an environment issue today
and both teams have raise some very important points.
However, the affirmative team seems to be very wrong on a number
of issues.

2) LOTS OF REBUTTAL : As third speaker of the negative team,

it is my job to correct those errors.

The affirmative team is wrong in suggesting that

This is wrong because

The affirmative team has also said that ..

This is also wrong because .

(You need to point out everything that you think is wrong about the
oppositions comments and then say why it is wrong. Your job is
convince the audience that your team, the negative team is right!)

3) SUMMARISE (Now you have to briefly summarise your teams

points to remind the audience that you are correct)
Teachers and students, the negative team strongly believe that
(restate the topic turning it to your point of view). My first speaker
(name) has explained to you about
My second speaker (name) has explained to you that
And I have shown you that most of the comments made by the
affirmative team are wrong.

4) RESTATE THE TOPIC to your teams point of view.

5) RESTATE YOUR TEAM LINE

6) SIT DOWN (DO NOT SAY THANK YOU!)