From a Storage Closet Between Multipurpose Rooms

19 October 2020Mr Neil Bryant, Debate Coach

In the 21st century, the connection of society between the religious metaphor and the legal metaphor has been broken. Neither expresses the community’s vision of its future and its past. Debate aims to reestablish that connection. Particularly in British Parliamentary style debate, which is the style with the maximum number of debaters, at eight vs eight, the diversity of lenses/perspectives and the funneling of firm conclusions is nowhere better demonstrated.

This weekend, in the multi-purpose rooms of the Foote Centre, our new online debating home (feeling the competition for space, BBallers?) 14 of our best students in the Senior Debate class used the newest version of Zoom to duke it out with teams from all over the Lower Mainland and Vancouver. No team of ours made the final four, but our students had a brilliant time figuring out how to debate online, with a partner, nowhere near them, but near enough to someone in our massive gym complex, to ask for help from if there were any technological issues to overcome.

After some kaleidoscopic gallimaufry, Lucinda G Allard ’22 ended up in the storage closet between multipurpose rooms! A great weekend was had by all.

Mr Neil Bryant, Debate Coach

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