Lee Sharmat at ACORN Community High School/D

Knowledge is Power, Discipline is Key

<P>I started out as a Drama Teacher, found my way into the Policy Debate community, and ended up being a High School Librarian!&nbsp; I started coaching at Metropolitan Corporate Academy and presently, I coach at ACORN Community High School in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn - where I am the Librarian as well.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Policy debate is a huge challenge.&nbsp; My students are dedicated, hard-working and charismatic.&nbsp; We have traveled on buses, trains and airplanes to compete against the Goliaths of policy debate.&nbsp; </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I teach my students how to win and how to learn from losing.&nbsp; They are not only learning how to compete, they learn how to account for themselves in professional situations.&nbsp; These are not only classroom but imperative life lessons.&nbsp; <BR></P> <P>3 weekends ago, we took 11th place novice speaker, 10th place novice team, 5th and 7th place speaker in Advanced, 7th Place Advanced Team.&nbsp;&nbsp;Oct 14-16th, we were at the Big Bronx Tournament, the biggest, most evil game in town.&nbsp; 10/22 - at Banneker, we walked away with a bunch of individual speaker and team awards. &nbsp; November 5th, here on our home turf - ACORN, we picked up some hardware against some super competitive teams and November 19th - we competed at Brooklyn Tech.&nbsp;</P> <P><B><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=4>Our Varsity teams came in 1st and 4th! &nbsp;Yes!&nbsp;</FONT></B></P> <P><B><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=4>Novices received speaker and team awards within the top ten. &nbsp;</FONT></B></P> <P>The schedule continued to pick up steam with December 3rd at Newark, December 10th at East Bronx Academy and December 17th - back in Brooklyn. &nbsp;Who needs sleep?!</P> <P>Update: &nbsp;No sleep - but we are used to that. That, and pizza. By the way - your donations pay to feed constantly hungry teenage debaters. &nbsp;Food is the path to a strong rebuttal!</P> <P>3rd place for JV &nbsp;J and Ty - they now have a full qualifying point to compete at State Champs. &nbsp;We came in 4th JV too, one of the debaters was a novice! &nbsp;His partner taught him well. &nbsp;Novices had wins and losses, and that is the nature of the game.</P> <P>Coming up in January and Feb? &nbsp;Bklyn. Tech, Bishop Loughlin and then the Regional back in Newark.</P> <P>Last but not least, we are registered and will attend the Harvard Invitational - one of the premier competitive tournaments of the year. &nbsp;Our debaters will be housed by the Honoroff family. &nbsp;Thank you Honoroff family. &nbsp;</P>

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