Over the past month or so, we have kissed goodbye to our lazy afternoons off choosing instead to work with some of our finest students to compete in the National English Debate (and by national, remember that Chile is 6,500km long, so we´re probably going to win the lottery before we get anywhere near this trophy!). This years (not so hot) topic - "Rap music is a bad influence on young people".
With Jonny and my schools both competing, there have been many devil eye stares, cagey conversations about the merits of rap, and empty threats of sabotage. So we were both fairly relieved when the time came, and we finally got to see our students fight it out for us over a podeum, a microphone and 3 judges.
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And so it was that we heard the topic of rap debated 4 times (3 too many) and an abundance of facts pulled from the most dubious of places....we heard that "actually nobody listens to rap anyway, so we should debate about regatton", that "my hump my hump my hump" will encourage you to go out and have unprotected sex, and that "girls who watch rap videos are 2.5 times more likely to hit a teacher". Given that I have not yet been hit, I´m hoping that this still means my risk is zero!
I would like to finish there, but I should probably inform you all that Jonny managed to school his kids to WIN the competition! (ahem, well done) and so will go on to the next regional round where he can look forward to arguing that "grades encourage students to learn". My school went out in style - a good old fight with the (unfair) judges, and a well earned pat on the back for being superstars in everyone elses eyes!
With Jonny and my schools both competing, there have been many devil eye stares, cagey conversations about the merits of rap, and empty threats of sabotage. So we were both fairly relieved when the time came, and we finally got to see our students fight it out for us over a podeum, a microphone and 3 judges..jpg)
And so it was that we heard the topic of rap debated 4 times (3 too many) and an abundance of facts pulled from the most dubious of places....we heard that "actually nobody listens to rap anyway, so we should debate about regatton", that "my hump my hump my hump" will encourage you to go out and have unprotected sex, and that "girls who watch rap videos are 2.5 times more likely to hit a teacher". Given that I have not yet been hit, I´m hoping that this still means my risk is zero!
I would like to finish there, but I should probably inform you all that Jonny managed to school his kids to WIN the competition! (ahem, well done) and so will go on to the next regional round where he can look forward to arguing that "grades encourage students to learn". My school went out in style - a good old fight with the (unfair) judges, and a well earned pat on the back for being superstars in everyone elses eyes!
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