You Mean Hip Hop Can Teach Us Something?

An article in today's Seattle Times talks about how some high school kids at O'Dea are getting all into being on the debate team, via an "unlikely" partner: hip hop. Clearly whoever wrote this:

On the surface, hip-hop and debate may represent different worlds ... But consider the basic activities of debate: researching a topic, framing an argument, presenting evidence, listening critically and speaking with conviction.

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Sheet! Da NWO done did use us to destroy da mo fo Honkey Race, now da Mexicans are gunnin' fo us! Sheet!

Down with State Sponsored Hip Hop!

Times have certainly changed at O'Dea. Back when I was at Garfield I got in this argument with an O'Dea kid about whether guns should be allowed in schools, and he said they definitely should be, because "if a gang war broke out, wouldn't you want to take some of them out with you?"

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