I WANT IT TO BE AUGUST BECAUSE OF LEAKY. But that means soccer preseason which I call hell and it means the end of summer…..

@ghughes @nera2996 Hey:)

@Carolyn Hey and Hello to @ghughes, too.

What is everyone up too?? Anything awesome???

Thank you so much! Although I do find it a bit long sometimes

Hi @therearesomewhocallmetim how are you?

@therearesomewhocallmetim I’m good thanks.

Even though I didn’t find last nights topic dull, I have a feeling this is a good idea

Hi everyone I was in my first debating competition today!!!

@wietske I’m not sure…It is probably mostly partaken by nerds (or politicians etc.) but I see no reason for it to be restricted to purely nerdy circles…debate is a great way of understanding others and their opinions (also kudos for potentially starting a debate about debate)

I agree with Tim, debating is usually done by nerds but should be done by a wider audience

Sorry I got distracted talking to some guy >.>

I think that’s one of the problems with living in the UK

@wietske The UK…East Anglia to be more precise (the round bit that sticks out of the right hand side near the bottom)…Sort of out in the sticks…

@therearesomewhocallmetim But they always say to us they debate a lot in England, Scotland, Ireland and the US. So that’s weird..

@ghughes the Netherlands.. The south to be exactly. I’m from Noord-Brabant.

@Wietske there are only 3 secondary schools in my town and one is a private school.

@Lunik1 you were distracted too. I reckon by Lizzie ’cause Lizrin is totally a thing.

The private school does all sorts of crap but debating isn’t one.

@Wietske They’re not that common here either. My parents didn’t want to send us there as they believe that school is what you make it it’s not about where you’re taught.

@rachael private schools here are mostly international schools and there are some schools you can do two years of high school in one year, but apart from these schools I would only know about 2-3 private schools. It matters where you’re taught I think, but it doesn’t matter that much. I have the luck of being able to chose of 5 school (I couldn’t really go to 4 of the 9 schools in my town, because they only teach the lowest school level and if I would do that I would always be bored probably, also it would be stupid to chose that if you can do a higher school level) and I think the place where I go to school really matters to me.

@wietske there is a private school (who select their pupils) very near to my school (which has to take everyone)…we generally beat them in results…I have gone to physics lectures in their theatre on school trips leading to jokes about the proletariat and the bourgeoisie meeting

@rachael That time it was Hustle, this time it was Yogscast. Now It’s back to Breaking Bad.

@therearesomewhocallmetim Fun fact: public schools (let’s call them that way) don’t have to take everyone here. I know my school only takes 140 pupils every year nowadays. When I went there it was different. You need to have an advice of your primary school teachers to go to VWO (the kind of school level at my school) and need a score on a test almost everyone makes here in the last year of primary school that needs to be very high. This is for a big part because we have different school levels of course, but it’s also because schools don’t want to get too big and stuff..

@wietske very interesting! our school has nearly 300 in the lower years and around 2000 pupils overall…it wasn’t intended to have that many but everyone wants to go there (it is a good school I guess)