Upstart Virginia team beats Oxford in debate

The Home School Court Report | January/February 2005 | Sarah Hoffman and Gary Emerling

[This Just In]

Made In America

[keithtoo]

Home Schooler mega-bump!!

[Law]

Made In America

Home-educated in America.

[Clemenza]

American Parliamentary Debate Association chant, sung to "My Darling Clementine":

I'm a bastard, I'm a bastard, I'm a BAAASSTARD yes I am...

But I'd rather be a bastard than an Oxford Union man...

[Churchillspirit]

Congratulations!

To take on an Oxford Union debating team and win is no small potatoes.

[blam]

"The students, who competed in four two-member teams, had to argue a fictitious breach-of-contract case involving millionaire Foghorn Leghorn who sued scultor Melvin Muttley over a disputed purple boll weevil statue.

The only statue in the world honoring and insect is (ironically) a Boll Weevil Statue in Enterprise, Alabama.

[Light Your World]

the 4-year-old Christian college in Purcellville.

I used to live there (as a child). It is a very small town, probably < 1,000 people.

[Tribune7]

Matt du Mee, 22, and Rayel Papke, 21, who attend Patrick Henry College, pulled off a victory against their British competitors in the first moot court tournament between one of the world's most renowned universities and the 4-year-old Christian college in Purcellville.

If only Ayn Rand was still alive :-)

[Cicero]

Extraordinary. Something the New York Times will ignore, because it contradicts all their most cherished assumptions: that homeschoolers are ignorant, that Christians are stupid, that most southerners are rednecks, etc., etc.

Instead, the Times will continue to call bill clinton a genius for getting sent to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he did no work and dropped out either because he was failed or because he raped a fellow student.

Congratulations to the Brits for recognizing the excellence of these students with their no doubt odd sounding accents.

[This Just In]

This is quite an extraordinary accomplishment, which is precisely why I felt you'd appreciate this story. You wouldn't have read about this on any biased major news outlit.

[TruthConquers]

This is fabulous news.

Homeschoolers keep showing the way for others to escape the indoctronation centers called government schools.

[dfwgator]

Damn, I had Oxford in the Final Four in my bracket.

[Capriole]

Purcellville...
I used to live there (as a child). It is a very small town, probably < 1,000 people.

I'm sorry to tell you that this is no longer the case. The townhouses are proliferating like rabbits, apparently breeding in the darkness, for every morning brings more of them. Route 7 is now a traffic nightmare at rush hour. McMansions with three- and four-car garages are popping up overnight as well. "Purcyville" is about to be part of the 50,000-house building craze the Virginia Supreme Court recently approved for western Loudoun. It's sad that the majestic sweep of the Blue Ridge will soon be covered with piles of vinyl siding.

[Citizen Soldier]

LOL! My nephew goes to Oxford, Jesus College, to be exact, and is on Oxford's Frisby throwing team! What a bunch of wusses!

[Mike Darancette]

Didn't this happen back in November?

[KeyWest]

This is certainly not just in since it happened many months ago and was posted on FR. You hurt your credibility without dates. The story would stand up just fine with them. Plus, when is the match here in the US? It was supposed to happen after the Oxford match using US law.

[jigsaw]

Well, can't these development problems "be solved by more chocolate or more ammunition"?

[keithtoo]

If life were a sport, debate is the Decathalon. We'll be hearing from all of these folks in the future.

And they're on our side!!

[ran15]

This can't be right.. there is no way an amatuer parent could develop a child's mind anywhere near what one of the highly trained professionals in the American Teacher's Federation can.