Going to the WSC



Last Saturday, it came round again: the World Scholar's Cup. (Why can't the apostrophe be after the "S"? Is there only one scholar in the whole world?) 
Although the WSC wants to get into the Guinness book of Records for the most tacky trophies given out to children, it is a lot of fun and the young people who take part do get to debate some very tough motions. In the Junior Rounds, we had some tough motions and in the Senior Rounds they were even tougher: "Resolved: That schools should teach classes on how to make mistakes", "That only the original writers of a movie should be allowed to write the sequel" and "That leaders of big countries should first practise being leaders of smaller countries."
I did not have to do any judging in the morning, as we had quite a surplus of judges. I went along to the training session for the judges, up in the "penthouse" at St. George's, and then I went along to see a few of the debates, as some of my Grade 4 students were debating in a competition for the first time.

And of course there was the Alpaca Adoption Ceremony, just as there was last year. All of the students had to raise their right hands, put their alpacas on their heads, solemnly promise to be good alpaca parents and not to eat their alpacas.

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