I guess the real question is what NSDA is doing about the problem. If all they’re doing is telling judges what to do, they’re useless. Unless they overrule judges who allow their biases to determine their votes, what good is the organization? It is actually harming students. Literally harming them: students inherently see adults as above…
I guess the real question is what NSDA is doing about the problem. If all they’re doing is telling judges what to do, they’re useless. Unless they overrule judges who allow their biases to determine their votes, what good is the organization? It is actually harming students. Literally harming them: students inherently see adults as above them in hierarchies. If one of them is harassing them, there is an innate tendency to see themselves as undeserving. It takes an exceptionally strong willed kid to override that kind of feedback.
Do that enough to most kids and the student is crippled, broken.
How to get around it? Monitor random debates, particularly those being judged by self-confessed biased judges. Override unfair judgments. And remove those judges from the organization. Not complicated.
I guess the real question is what NSDA is doing about the problem. If all they’re doing is telling judges what to do, they’re useless. Unless they overrule judges who allow their biases to determine their votes, what good is the organization? It is actually harming students. Literally harming them: students inherently see adults as above them in hierarchies. If one of them is harassing them, there is an innate tendency to see themselves as undeserving. It takes an exceptionally strong willed kid to override that kind of feedback.
Do that enough to most kids and the student is crippled, broken.
How to get around it? Monitor random debates, particularly those being judged by self-confessed biased judges. Override unfair judgments. And remove those judges from the organization. Not complicated.