Monday, June 27, 2005

CNN.com - Inner-city students�learn the upscale art of debate - Jun 27, 2005

CNN.com - Inner-city students�learn the upscale art of debate - Jun 27, 2005: "ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Adrienne Glover admits to getting emotional when her inner-city school's debate team faces experienced, well-funded squads from exclusive private schools.

The emotion? Joy.

'It's really fun when you beat them,' said Glover, 14, a student at Benjamin Mays High School in southwest Atlanta, where all the pupils are minorities and half qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. 'They think they're so good.'

Mays is part of the Urban Debate League -- part of a national program started by Atlanta's Emory University in 1985 that instructs public school students from poor areas in the traditionally upscale art of debate."

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