Example of a Debate Speech

Thank you Madam Speaker. A very good morning I would like to wish to the honourable adjudicators, precise timekeepers, fellow members of the government, members of the opposition and members of the floor. We are gathered here today to debate on a very important motion that is THBT physically challenged people should not be seperated in schools. And, we, the government strongly back this motion. To address this motion, please allow me to start off by specifying my role and the role of my fellow members of the government.

I, as the Prime Minister, have the main task in hand in which I have to state the motion, which I have already done earlier. Next, I will highlight some of the keywords and define the motion of today’s debate. Following this, I will present the first point of the government in order to support our stand. The role of my deputy here is to rebut the points given by the opposition leader and he will go on to present two additional new points that will further support the government’s stand.

Finally, the third speaker of the government has the task as the whip of the government to rebut all the points given and put forward by the opposition. Now, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to point out some keywords that we the government, find to of the government, in order to support our stand. The government defines ‘physically challenged’ as any form of impairment that limits the mobility and function of the body. we also define ‘people’ as students, staff and teachers in a school. e also define ‘school’ as an institution for educating students. we the government, agree that physically challenged people should not be seperated in schools on the grounds that it isn’t up to us to deny their rights to mainstream education to be part of the school community. ladies and gentlemen, allow me to move on to the governments first point of the day. that is physically challenged people can be part of the society by having self motivation. y sharing the same school at their young ages, physically challenged people have the chance to build their self motivation. everyone has their own aspiration and ambitions that serve to define themselves in their lives. self motivation comes from within the person. being able to compete with more physically able students personally makes a physically challenged student to get rid of his/her prejudice of him/herself(lack of physical abilities makes him/her unable to compete mentally with normal students), thus motivating and purring the individual to move forward. put it at a way that you were able to beat one of your classmates that is more “complete” than you, how would that make you feel? of course, it makes you feel better of yourself. proving that nothing is impossible for you to do. for example, muhammad rosli and ahmad of sekolah kebangsaan seksyen 27 in shah alam were born as conjoined twins and now succesfully seperated following an operation in saudi arabia in 2002. venthough they were not like normal students, they still manage to get good results in their upsr which was 4a’s and 1b in 2011 and are still educated in a normal school. this relates back to being part of the society by having the attention of being able to do something you’re more capable of. just imagine, ladies and gentlemen if they did not share the same school with normal people at their young ages, they probally would not get the self motivation needed for their future adulthoods being in the society itself. great statistics to prove this is that, the national resources centre on learning disablity found that graduation rates of all students with disabilties in the u. s increased to 14% from 1984 to 1997. this report differentiate between students enrolled in mainstreaming inclusive or segregated programs for teachers, they are not supose to be seperated too. the qualification of one being a teacher is already tested before they became teacher. bypassing the test this proves that they have the skills and capability of being a teacher, and why be seperated?. or example, stephen william hawkings, he cant move his whole body, but he still is an inspiriation to all in the field astronomy and lectures people. you need to accept who you are, accept everything about yourself. you are who you are, that’s your beginning and that’s your end. by sharing the same school with normal students, the physical challenged also can have the oppurtunity to learn or at least adapt other alternatives to provide them access to normal education. it doesn’t mean that if a person has a limitation to do something, that person can’t do it at all. et’s put it in a simpler way, if a person is neither deaf nor blind but can not walk, does it mean you cant learn like normal students? for example, nick vujicic is a man without limbs, who only has a foot with two toes, he went to an ordinary school and now he is a succesful motivator. at his early ages he had problems but overcame it by realizing that he was not alone in his struggles and began to embrace his disabilty. he learned to write using two toes on his left foot with a special grip that slid into his big toe. e learned to use a computer and type using the “heel and toe” method. he learned to throw tennis balls, play drum pedals, get himself a glass of water, comb his hair, brush his teeth, answer the phone and even shave. this shows that even a person without any limbs can adapt other alternatives to do normal things like normal people do. adapting other alternatives is a true skill. physically disable students adapt these alternatives, by mingling with the other students since their childhood. ure, you might think that things will be more complicated and difficult for the challenged people who are in mainstream schools compared to special schools, but if things were too easy for them at the beginning, would they manage to handle what they will face in the future? before i take my seat, i would like to reaffirm our stand that is we the government, agree that physically challenged people should not be seperated in schools on the grounds that it isn’t up to us to deny their rights to mainstream education to be part of the school community. With that i rest my case.