Before the debate, I was on the side of free tuition for public colleges and universities. For this debate, I researched free public colleges and universities in other countries, what current “models” exists in the US and how they work, and the positive (and negative) impacts of free tuition. From my research, I was surprised that the US has over $1.26 trillion of the national debt (about ten percent) is in debt caused by the student; in other words, an average household is $48,591 in debt (about a third of the average debt of a family). Another piece of information that interest me was the US is amongst the top countries with the highest cost to attend college, which is even higher than Germany which offers free tuition.
During the debate, my role was to take notes, create some tips, etc., for my team members, and to notify the opposing team of free college tuition in other countries, namely Germany. Throughout the debate, I felt that the best evidence of our argument was the fact that free tuition will open more educational and job opportunities and allow more Americans to reach their potential. My team's performance in this debate needs some improvement. For example, throughout this debate, we focused primarily on defending a forming our own argument instead of
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The evidence they used that stood out to me was their comment on how free tuition will lower the value of the college diploma, as my team has not thought of that so far. They also discussed how free college tuition will remove a professor's source of income, etc., and would cause a strain on modern economics, budgeting (especially for a college), etc., and how the college student’s educational quality will decrease as there are more students to educate and there being a lesser faculty to student