August:
Debate Summaries
AITIS Should Not Be Upgraded to High School
AITIS Should Not Be Upgraded to High School
- More resources will be required.
- More space will be required.
- More construction will destroy natural environment of AITIS.
- We will no more benefit from plants and animals around.
- School fees will increase greatly.
- Students in higher grades will be distracted by inappropriate stuff.
- They might bully their juniors.
- They might skip classes leaving a bad influence on juniors.
- Fixing disciplinary issues might make teachers go crazy.
- More students will mean more trash ending up hiring more cleaning staff.
- More classes will mean more noise which will ruin the peaceful environment of AITIS.
- AITIS students will not have to look for other schools for further studies.
- They will not have to wake up very early and travel to far places.
- Studying at AITIS will be cheaper than the other international schools.
- Students won’t need to adapt to a new environment.
- Students won’t benefit from the facilities in other international schools that AIT provides (like 7-11, Lawson, and Sports Courts).
- Upgrading AITIS to High School will mean getting more educational equipment (like computers, library books, Science lab, music and PE equipment.
- AITIS will also have its own transportation.
- AITIS students will be able to stay longer with their friends.
- With bigger student population, the school will become well known.
- AITIS will have bigger canteen with variety of food to offer.
- There will be more teachers to interact with and learn from.
- The school will facilitate for scholarships to schools abroad.
Home School is Better
- No chances of bullies.
- Students can choose which topic they want to learn and when.
- No pressure of class or homework.
- No school fees to pay
- Students get to use any available devices at home for learning
- Students spend more time with parents.
- Less depression due to school competitions
- Students can have break any time.
- Personal tutors can focus on one child only.
- No uniforms
- No inappropriate distraction.
- In case of emergency, they can reach out their parents immediately.
- No worries of getting your work copied.
- When others have sickness, you won’t get it.
- Students will be able to choose any project they want to do.
- No fear of crowded classrooms
- Students can also help do house chores at home.
- Students can invite their friends at home any time they want.
- When students are done with their studies they don’t need to wait for the others.
- Safety all the time
- No strict rules
- Students won’t get to meet with their friends every day.
- They will be too relaxed at home and won’t learn a lot.
- They will get to learn any time which will make them lazy.
- They won’t be able to learn things like sports etc. that requires expensive equipment.
- They won’t learn to socialize.
- Learning with friends helps you learn more than learning from internet.
- They won’t learn to work in groups or with teams.
- More exposure to internet will lead them to get more cyber bullied.
- Not learning in a regular school will create problems for them to get used to university routine.
- After school clubs help students develop more interest in other areas aside from academics.
There Should Be Uniform in School
- It helps students avoid wearing inappropriate cloths.
- No need to search for what clothes to wear every day.
- No need to worry about rules what to wear and what not to wear.
- A habit of wearing no uniform might cause problems of making it a habit for students switching to a school where uniform is a must.
- Uniforms can help keep track of students going to field trips and also in case there get lost.
- Uniforms help students earn respect if they are outside of school.
- Uniforms are an identity of a school. If the students are performing good, their school will be respected.
- Wearing inappropriate clothes may influence others to wear the same.
- Not everyone can afford to buy uniform.
- You have to buy new uniform every year because it gets smaller.
- Usually uniforms are white and when they get dirty, it’s hard to clean them.
- Sometimes the required uniform sizes are not available in shops then what to wear.
- In case of uniform, you have to do more laundry.
- At school events, where you have to changes clothes for performances, the students’ uniforms usually swap.
- Due to limited number of uniforms, students have nothing to wear if uniforms are not washed for some reason.
- You might have to wash your white uniforms separately so that they don’t get the color of other clothes. In that case, more laundry and waste of electricity.
- In case uniform stains cannot be removed they cannot be used but house clothes with stains might show they are part of color patterns on clothes.
- No worries for students who forgot to wear PE uniforms on PE class days.
- Uniforms are hard to take care of and have to be kept ready every day but in case of uniform you can grab any clothes if you wake up late.
- House clothes are more comfortable to wear especially in case of injury.