[erkyl]

As a high school debate coach, I’ve been around kids like this one a lot—very bright, well-read, highly articulate. They all have lacked the life experience to be completely effective persuaders, however as long as they stay on point and hammer home the facts, they can be quite convincing.

Look, in today’s world, kids who don’t know who the Vice President or Nancy Pelosi is are a dime a dozen. When we have a teenager who can put together a cogent sentence, much less a book, we should definitely stop and take notice. And give credit where credit is due—his parents.

[Mengerian]

I hear you, too. I take nothing away from Krohn. They need a little life experience to establish credibility and refined in their rhetoric and persuasion.

BTW, I loved debate in college. Debated in CEDA and NPDA, inducted into Pi Kappa Delta, too. Although my academics suffered as too much time was expended on debate prep and tournament travel.

(It's great to know a conservative has infiltrated the high school debate circuit as a coach - keep up the good work!)