The Debate

   I honestly enjoyed the debate that we had in class. As of the topic of who won It doesn't take a genius to figure that out. Anyone who actually paid attention the the debate could know that you (Mr. Beddingfield) beat us easily. Although I feel that you clearly won as it relates to the trial itself I, I don't feel like we had a legitimate chance of winning. The reason for this is that, you (Mr. Beddingfield) switched your stance from banning the book (Huckleberry Finn) to not having the book taught or canonizing the book. By doing this you allowed us the students no chance for winning at all, because like you did you could easily have talked about the literary merits of the novel as a counterargument then still feel that the book shouldn't be taught. I feel that in this sense we got robbed. Although I feel bad because of that aspect of the trial I ultimately feel good, because I learned a lot during the trial and I got a sort of first hand view of how a real debate would sort of look like. All in all I think that the debate was great and that we should definitely do it again.