To bring a new addition to the FC campus, a debate team is being introduced to the student body. Being led by Donn Rojeski, husband of junior high teacher Hallie Rojeski, the new club is being brought on as a sort of replacement for the cancellation of the Academic Decathlon.
Rojeski along with the help of Molly Sargent, a former teacher, had the idea for the debate team last year.
“This year I was approached by Todd Bennett [Principal] and Debbie Siebert [Superintendent],” Rojeski said. “When they dropped Academic Decathlon they wanted to do something else similar, but challenge a different range of students.”
Debate teams study a topic and argue the issue with opposing teams about the morality and practicality of the certain subject. The team challenges students by having them learn both sides of an argument for the chosen topic. Tax policy is the issue that has been chosen for this year.
The team does not choose the competing question instead it is chosen by the