A debate club practices in a middle school classroom. By Antonia Noori Farzan Antonia Noori Farzan Reporter for the Morning Mix Email Bio Follow April 16 at 6:16 AM On March 1, hundreds of hypercompetitive teens and preteens from all over the East Coast flocked to a suburban high school campus in New York’s Westchester County. Dressed in awkwardly fitting blazers, they huddled over their laptops in the cafeteria, nervously cramming.
As the Bergen Record first reported, the 14-year-old boy’s parents are now suing the school for slander. They allege that their son, who is identified in court documents as “S.L.,” was forced out of his debate program after he became the victim of “false, malicious and defamatory” remarks. Students spend school nights “poring over amicus briefs or economic analyses,” as former high school debater Jack McCordick wrote in America Magazine, dedicating their weekends to travel to competitions all over the country. Beyond simply being able to think on their feet, debaters also have to be well-versed in a broad array of issues, ready to hold forth, as McCordick noted, “on everything from nuclear proliferation to sanctions against Russia to the private prison industry.
After Kugnus was defeated in that same round, Brown went around informing team members and their parents that the loss was S.L.’s fault, the lawsuit says. He allegedly told them Yorkville East had “the exact same overviews, blocks and arguments” from Kugnus’s practice rounds, and the fact that V.Y. had described herself as S.L.'s “best friend” had led him to conclude that they were sharing files.
According to the suit, S.L. asked V.Y. to join the chat room so that she could clear everything up. She clarified that she had never said that they practiced together and that S.L. had never given her any of the materials that his team used to prepare for debates. But the student who had brought up the issue wouldn’t budge and insisted that he believed their coach, the lawsuit states.
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