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One reason is each running canidate for president has its own has his or her own group of electors.
Claim
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The electors are usually picked by the canidate's political party. Which is good that they have there own because then the votes would just be a landslide on the outcome of it. Then the citizens votes come in and thats when the votes start to seperate in total, because theres more citizens voting for the other runner than there are electors of those running presidents and vice presidents. Now every state has there own amount of electoral votes.
Evidence
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under this system you vote for the electors, who in turn vote for the president. And for instance you lived in Texas and wanted to vote for someone, you'd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors that pledged to that person, then he would get all those electoral votes for the state of Texas.
Evidence
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voters can't always control who there electors vote for but they can sometimes, if they know who there electors are voting for. And they also sometimes get confused about the electors and sometimes vote for the wrong canidate
Claim
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So pretty much at the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters.
Claim
Adequate
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Because of the winner-take-all system in each state. Canidates dont spend time in states thet know they dont have no chance of winning. And it doesnt really give them a chance to vote for who they want to vote for the electors do that part.
Evidence
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The most worried outcome of the votes is a tie in the electoral vote part
Claim
Adequate
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If that happens the election would be decided by the House Of Representatives, where they will vote on the president. And the senate would choose the vice-president. Because each state gives out only one vote. But the House's selection will most likely not reflect on the peoples choice.
Evidence
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Well thats what i think of the electoral college, its unfair, and outdated. I think we should get rid of this system because its reallly bad towards voters, and it  would make voting have more freedom other than leaving your voting up to the electors,  instead of yourself. And the winner-take-all system is dumb also because you have really no control over who wins if that system is available.
Concluding Statement
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Should students be allowed to have cell phones during school?
Lead
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I think that students shouldn't be able to have cell phones at school at all
Position
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first its to distracting and the student wont be learning anything because he/she would be occupied doing something there not supposed to be doing.
Claim
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Second is school is a leaning environment not a place to be doing other things with your cell phone we come to school to learn!
Claim
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The third why i think having cell phones on campus is because we all have ore free time to do whatever we have to do.
Claim
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For example , we need to forces on more important things such as school work and maybe after school activates. I think we shouldn't be able to have our phones because 50% of students that have cell phones fail there classes because while the teacher is explaining something important the student us either messing around or texting another student which is not only affecting he/she but others around them.
Evidence
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We come to school for one reason and one reason only at that is to go to school and get the education we need for a better future and all of the above. We need to help all students get ahead of life and have good jobs that they could all be proud of.
Evidence
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i do understand we also have to have a social life and communicate with other students or peers. Not everything is fun and games sometimes we just need to expect the what our parents do what they do because they love and care about us.
Evidence
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We shouldn't be able to have cell phones because honestly its just a waste of time and we could do so much better and if we do a good job in school than we would have time for other things because in life there is time for everything but it also has its own time.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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I believe that most students should volunteer in community service. It really could help the world we live in today.
Position
Adequate
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People just throw things on the ground and kill our world, by not treating it right
Evidence
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It would help our school raise more money for more activities and we could help other people by making the world better for them
Claim
Adequate
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Some people laugh at people doing community service,
Counterclaim
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but what they really should be doing is helping them. They know that doing things for other people, or the community, is the right thing
Rebuttal
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So i believe that our school should take a full day off, out side, help other people clean up streets, parks, and yards. It would be a lot of help, and even if we don't get paid, we all know we did the right thing. Our world could be a much better place than what it is now.
Evidence
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We don't always have to depend on technology to do everything for us.
Claim
Ineffective
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Especially cars, way back people didn't depend on cars, because they weren't even invented, but they had to walk where ever they needed or wanted to go. Whether women were with child, someone had a broken leg, or u could've been sick. Either way, they still kept going until the reached their destination. They couldn't depend on all the technology we have today.
Evidence
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like help someone walk their dog or dig up a garden. Maybe help an elder cross the street
Evidence
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You shouldn't expect someone to give cash right away either.
Evidence
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So i believe that our school should get up and make a change for once. There should be no more sitting around, doing things we already know, when we could out there, in the world, helping others, learning new things, and how all of this is useful to us. We could show our town, our community, and everyone else in the world, that we were given an amazing thing.
Concluding Statement
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I believe that we should get rid of the electoral college system
Position
Adequate
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it has so many flaws
Claim
Adequate
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The electoral college has robbed prsidental canidates like (Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob dole, & Al Gore) of their chance of becoming president, even after they won the popular vote,
Evidence
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but their not the only ones who wants a change to the way we elect our presidents
Claim
Adequate
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recent studies show that over 60 percent of voters would like a change to the way we elect our president.
Evidence
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The second thing that is wrong with the electoral college is that your not voting for the president your voting for the electors who pledged to that person
Claim
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Also people from larger states are complaining about what happens with a tie because if their is a tie the house of representives decide,but the thing that is crazy is that 1) representative from Wyoming would have a much say a the 55) representatives from California.
Evidence
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The third and final thing that is wrong with the electoral college is that the electoral college is unfair to the voters
Claim
Adequate
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because the winner take all system canidates don't spend a lot of time in states they know they will not win. Canidates will only focus on the areas that they know or have a strong chance of winning. Like the year 2000 campaign seventeen states did not see the Canidates such like Rhode Island, & South Carolina, so how do they think they feel not knowing the person running this country?
Evidence
Adequate
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I strongly feel like you guys should really consider a change to the way we select our president
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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There is no doubt that cell phones are very important to our every day lives. They allow people to get in contact with each other in just the click of a button. But they can also cause problems, not just at home, but in school too.
Lead
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Which is why I believe that Policy 2 is the right choice.
Position
Adequate
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They are a distraction to students,
Claim
Effective
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an easy way to cheat,
Claim
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can cause serious problems such as rumors and gossip.
Claim
Effective
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If cell phones were allowed during classes, instead of only during lunch periods and other free times, they would be put to use constantly. Students would be able to communicate through text message throughout the classroom, and the teacher would never know. If a student had an Internet connection on his/her phone, they would be able to play games, go on websites that are not allowed in school, and so on. This would all take place right under the teacher's nose, but they would have no way of knowing what was going on. This could be a serious problem for a student's education too. Since cell phones are such a distraction, Students could miss important lessons taught that day, and may fall behind.
Evidence
Effective
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Imagine a student doing his work, and suddenly he doesn't know the answer to a problem. Fortunately, he has his cell phone in his pocket, and can look up the answer on the internet. If cell phones are allowed during class, students can easily get information of the web, without doing to work nessacery. During tests, students can send messages back and forth on what the answers are, and the teacher would never know. This is a problem, because students who are caught cheating can end up in serious trouble.
Evidence
Effective
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Cell phones can come to use once in a while; if you need to contact a parent or guardian, or if there is an emergency, your able to call some one right away.
Counterclaim
Effective
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If there was an emergency, isn't that what the school phone in the office is for? If students really needed to call someone, they can simply get a pass and go down to the office to use their phone.
Rebuttal
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Rumors can ruin a persons reputation, that's a known fact. High school students and even middle school students love to talk. If cell phones were allowed, rumors would fly around the school. In a matter of minutes, everyone would know the latest gossip, just by one person pressing the "Send to all" button. This can lead to bullying, which could also lead to a flaw in that student's education. So no matter what, cell phones are a disadvantage to a school.
Evidence
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As you can see, their are many more cons then there are pros for cell phones allowed during class. Policy 2 is the right choice because it allows students to get in touch with whoever they need to contact, It can keep a student from cheating and save them the trouble that comes along with it, and it is also a way to slow down rumors, and a save a child's reputation. All just by removing cell phones from school.
Concluding Statement
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The Electoral College has been well working for many year and think that we shouldn`t change it because it been an well know process for elections for the pasted years of our country`s history.
Position
Adequate
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The Electoral College is a process, consider a place. Our founding fathers established it in the our country`s Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by voting in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The process of the Electoral College consists of the selection of the electors. They vote for th President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral college consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state`s entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation, one for each member in the House of Representives plus two for your Senators. Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia(DC) is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. Every candidate running for President in your state has his or her own electors group. The electors generally are chosen by the candidate`s political party, but the states laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. The presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, you help help choose your state`s electors when you vote for President because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate`s electors. Than after the presidential election, your governor prepared a " Certificate of Ascertainment" listing all of the candidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of their respective electors. The Certificate of Ascetainment also declares the winning presidential candidate in your state and shows which electors will resprent your state at the meeting of the electors in December of the election year. Under the Electoral College system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president
Evidence
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The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century, the system allows for much worse. Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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That is why we should keep the Electoral College, because it to is party of what make our country`s history.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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We should abolish the Electoral College and change the election to popular vote for the president of the United States. The Electoral College is corupt compared to popular vote. They're more cons than pros about  the Electoral College. A lot of people agree that we should change our voting to popular vote.
Lead
Adequate
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Electoral College voting should not be the way we vote for something so important.
Position
Adequate
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The Electoral College System is wrong.
Claim
Ineffective
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In source two, Bradford Plumer said that "under the Electoral College system, voters vote not for the president, but for a state of electors, who in turn elect the president". You have no clue who your voting in with the Electoral College system. Plumer also said "they can be anyone not holding public office" and "electors could always defy the will of the people". Do you really want someone who you dont know and can't trust to be an elector? If you wanted someone like that you might as well let a child do the job. In source one the Office of the Federal Register said "when you vote for your canadidate you are actually voting for your candidates elector's". More than one source said that you vote in electors when voting for a your candidate.
Evidence
Adequate
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The Electoral College system is said to be unfair to voters in source two
Claim
Adequate
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The Electoral College system has a "winner-take-all" system. Which means if a Democrat candidate wins they will have Democrat electors and if a Republican wins the will have Republican electors. In source one the Office of the Federal Register also said that the "winner-take-all" system "awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate". This is not fair to the voters or the United States. If a tie happened it would be even more unfair to voters. if a tie did happen the House of Representatives would break it. In source two Plumer said "the House's selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people. If the voting doesnt even show your will why vote? Plumer also said in source two that "the Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational". I agree with plumer, the Electaral College needs to go.
Evidence
Adequate
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Even though the Electoral College has a lot more cons than pros they have some pros
Counterclaim
Adequate
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In source three Posner give you the "five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President". Posner said the first reason was "certainty of outcome". The second reason is "the Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal". the third and fourth reason is "swing states" and "big states". the fifth reason is the Electoral College system can "avoid run-off elections".
Evidence
Adequate
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These are all pros of keeping the Electroral College, but are they really worth it? Would you rather have these pros compared to having fairness?
Rebuttal
Adequate
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We should abolish the Electoral College and change the election to popular vote for the president of the United States. Popular voting is alot better for everyone. The pros of popular voting excedes the pros of the Electoral College. Popular voting gives everyone a fair chance and doesnt just have a "winner-take-all" system. it actually gives both political parties a chance. I agree with source two when it said "Abolish the Electoral College!". Source two was right we need to put an end to the Electoral College system!
Concluding Statement
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I believe students shouldn't have to do community service if they don't want to.
Position
Adequate
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It shouldn't be a priority for students to help. It should be a decided thing whether the student wants to or not. Kids all want to have fun and most students don't want to spend their time doing community service. So why make them? Let kids have fun, let kids decide whether or not they want to do community service. Its the right thing to do.
Evidence
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Making it a priority for students to do community service can mess up students education.
Claim
Effective
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If the principle made students have a class for community service could you imagine the lack of education the kids can be getting. What about the lack of physical education? What if doing community service took up physical education classes?, How do you think your students would feel? Them not being able to run around and hang out will make them furious if id didn't have physical education I'd be angry too!
Evidence
Effective
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Yes, i know community service is something to better build your character,
Counterclaim
Effective
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but do teenagers really need community service? Sooner or later teenagers will figure out how to become better people. Its all part of growing up. Let your students grow up.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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So do you rather, making it a priority for your students to do community service or not? Do you rather them miss out on part of their education just to clean a field or to read to little children? Isn't that why we have teachers? Or do you want your students to be mad at their principle because there's not time to hang out or get all their energy out? Take it from me a student myself, you should let students have time to hang out its the best thing for kids our age. Making kids do community service may take that time up. Don't make it a priority for community service! Community service is not that big a deal!
Concluding Statement
Effective
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I believe we should keep the Electoral College
Position
Adequate
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Because it would be better for our country
Claim
Adequate
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The Electoral College is a process. This process consists of the selection of electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice presient. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is require to elect the president. Under the 23rd Amendment of the constitution, the District of Columbia allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College.
Evidence
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I am aware that the Electoral College has some flaws
Counterclaim
Adequate
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but nothings ever gonna be just the way you want right?
Rebuttal
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Under the electoral college system, votetrs vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. Also the electoral college is unfair to voters. It is unfair becuase of the winner-take-all system in each state. Candidates dont go to states they know there not going to win in. The Electoral College is outdated and irrational. But the best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality
Evidence
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In addition there are also good things about this electoral system.
Claim
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For Example, the Electoral College resotres some of the weight in the politcial balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the constitution. The Electoral College also avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recevies a majority of the vostes cast
Evidence
Adequate
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Furthermore, The Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state Democrats
Counterclaim
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But of Course no voter's vote swings a national election American population did vote in 2012 election
Rebuttal
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In conclusion these are the resons why I believe that we should keep the Electoral College.
Concluding Statement
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First i want to say that i agree and disagree with your decision.
Position
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I agree because students shouldn't get lower than a B but also a C average.
Claim
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I disagree because students should have sports if their average is a C...
Claim
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that C don't mean they are flunking it means that they are in average to play sports, because the GPA you should have to play sports is a 2.5 or above.
Evidence
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I think you should let the students who have a C average play because when they have something to keep them entertain they will bring their grades up because they would want to stay in the sport they in.
Claim
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I kind of agree with you because if you let somebody with a C average in a sport they wouldn't try their best to get it up because they are going to think "oh they let me in with a C average that means i can keep it that way."
Evidence
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You just have to come up with some agreements you can come up with and share them with the students and see if they agree with you, and they disagree with you than just don't let them in the sport they sign up for.
Claim
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I am on both sides for this argument. I like the idea for helping others and you not get paid but I also am an active kid and I wouldn't have much time to perform the tasks required by you.
Lead
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I agree with requiring the students to do community service.
Position
Adequate
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I agree with this because I like to be that guy that helps others with no cost.
Claim
Adequate
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I also like that idea because I have done it before and i' m willing to do what is required again.
Evidence
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I also feel that this will give all of the lazy kids an opportunity to not be lazy and get up from the couch and make a difference for there community, my community, our community.
Claim
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This also may turn around the lives of the more "bad" kids that drink and also do other bad things like drugs and stuff.
Evidence
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If you are able to make that much of a difference in our community, then you most probable will get best principal of the year and maybe you'll get transferred to a high school and be the principal there and then you'll probable have a better salary.
Evidence
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I also do agree with the other side of the argument. I agree with the other side because like me many people are very busy with school already
Counterclaim
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We all have to do homework. Some of us are involved with after school activity's(sports, and clubs). Then there is also kid's like me that not only don't have time on the weekdays for community service but on the weekends I have no time for it.
Evidence
Adequate
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I along with lots of other people disagree with this argument.
Evidence
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Also if you go through with this then you might be hated by many of the students because they hate school as it is and now they are required to do community service. I don't think that they will like that idea all that much.
Evidence
Adequate