C. High School SPAR Event Prompts

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    Jail is the proper punishment for all crimes
    The United States should adopt a policy of mandatory neutrality in all wars.
    The government should restrict some speech

  2. Speaker 2


    Jail is the proper punishment for all crimes
    The United States should adopt a policy of mandatory neutrality in all wars.
    The government should restrict some speech

  3. Speaker 3


    Cigarette smoking and vaping should be banned entirely
    All individuals should pay the same tax rate
    Daily leisure time should be a substitute for a yearly vacation

  4. Speaker 4


    Cigarette smoking and vaping should be banned entirely
    All individuals should pay the same tax rate
    Daily leisure time should be a substitute for a yearly vacation

  5. Speaker 5


    Public officials should be required to spend more time among their constituents
    Colleges in the United States should restrict constitutional hate speech.
    Sports coaches should be paid as much as teachers.

  6. Speaker 6


    Public officials should be required to spend more time among their constituents
    Colleges in the United States should restrict constitutional hate speech.
    Sports coaches should be paid as much as teachers.

  7. Speaker 7


    Freedom of speech should protect offensive ideas
    Economic inequality is the greatest threat to democracy
    Social media companies should be treated like publishers

  8. Speaker 8


    Freedom of speech should protect offensive ideas
    Economic inequality is the greatest threat to democracy
    Social media companies should be treated like publishers

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    The government should provide free internet service for everyone
    In the United States, prisoners should be allowed to vote.
    Criminal justice should focus solely on rehabilitation.

  2. Speaker 2


    The government should provide free internet service for everyone
    In the United States, prisoners should be allowed to vote.
    Criminal justice should focus solely on rehabilitation.

  3. Speaker 3


    Freedom of the press causes social instability.
    Japan should compensate for the damage done during their colonization period
    When in conflict, the preservation of minority cultural values ought to be valued above the preservation of a unified national culture.

  4. Speaker 4


    Freedom of the press causes social instability.
    Japan should compensate for the damage done during their colonization period
    When in conflict, the preservation of minority cultural values ought to be valued above the preservation of a unified national culture.

  5. Speaker 5


    The US should defund the police
    The Internet should be regulated
    Students should be held financially or legally responsible for bullying

  6. Speaker 6


    The US should defund the police
    The Internet should be regulated
    Students should be held financially or legally responsible for bullying

  7. Speaker 7


    College athletes should be paid
    Privacy is more important than national security
    Democracy is the best form of government

  8. Speaker 8


    College athletes should be paid
    Privacy is more important than national security
    Democracy is the best form of government

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    In the future, parents should be allowed to pick the genders of their children
    Freedom of Speech cannot exist on the Internet
    Public schools should teach religion

  2. Speaker 2


    In the future, parents should be allowed to pick the genders of their children
    Freedom of Speech cannot exist on the Internet
    Public schools should teach religion

  3. Speaker 3


    All people should have free internet access
    Google is a monopoly
    State Universtity lectures should be publicly available on the Internet

  4. Speaker 4


    All people should have free internet access
    Google is a monopoly
    State Universtity lectures should be publicly available on the Internet

  5. Speaker 5


    Learning a foreign language should be mandatory
    Virtue signaling creates a net-positive effect
    In the United States, majoring in a STEM-related field is over-emphasized.

  6. Speaker 6


    Learning a foreign language should be mandatory
    Virtue signaling creates a net-positive effect
    In the United States, majoring in a STEM-related field is over-emphasized.

  7. Speaker 7


    Cancel culture discourages accountability
    The minimum wage should be tied to inflation
    Technological progress creates more problems than it solves

  8. Speaker 8


    Cancel culture discourages accountability
    The minimum wage should be tied to inflation
    Technological progress creates more problems than it solves