I hear you.....to compare edwards to a junior high debater is not fair to junior high schoolers....
PS - you are dating yourself, they are now called middle schoolers. ;^)
Well, it's not like anyone else wants to date me. BTW, some of the small schools here in Texas still use junior high. I've always thought it strange that there are people who sit around and have nothing better to do than parse terms to try to find something more politically correct. I've had people say to me "It's MIDDLE SCHOOL" in that reproving voice like I've used a racial slur. I still haven't figured out what was wrong with the term junior high, but all the big schools use middle school now. It probably has something to do with government grants. Everything else does.