Last panel discussion

Topic: We must make school uniform.

Panelists: Kofy, Hanna, Lucus, Finnian, Carol
Moderator: Allie

Opinions:

Carol: Agree
She agree with the topic, because students can wear school uniform in official occasion such as wedding or funeral if we introduce school uniform. Moreover, we can know which scool students are thanks to it, and they can have an awareness of being a student of the school. She thinks that we can save money by having it. Finnian worries about the inconvenient point of the skirt, but she objects to her opinion. Students wear school uniform everyday, so they get used to wearing skirts. In addition, she insists that students should learn cooperation not personality, and they should show their personality by their character not clothes. Sara worries about big family that has many children because the family have to buy school uniform many times and take a lot of money. However she suggests that older brother and sister give the hand-me-downs to younger. About Lusy's opinion that students need to buy school uniform many times in a growth period, she says that they should buy a little bigger one.

Hanna: Agree
If we make school uniform, we don't have to take time to choose what we wear in the moning, and we can use morning time more effectively. Students don't have to use time for fashion, they should concentrate on studying and school life. Besides, by wearing school uniform, students can feel closer to friends. About money problem, she says that the soct of it is high, but it is cheaper than total cost of clothes that students wear in school everyday.  She imagines the school uniform which suits to official occasion. To the last, she wants to make school uniform, but she agrees with the idea of making school budge as a first step to making school uniform.

Kofy: Agree
She thinks that the merit of making school uniform is that we don't need to choose clothes every day. Besides, they can have awareness of that they belongs to school. About the worry about the inconvenient point of skirt, she says that students don't move so much in school hours. Moreover,  she thinks that they act in the same way by wearing same clothe. Generally speaking, schildren tend to judge people by their appearance but it is easy to judge by character not appearance if students wear same clothe.

Finnian: Disagree
She insists that by wearing skirt, it is difficult to move. Moreover, she cares about lack of hygiene of school uniform, because it cannot be washed everyday. Students often play outside in lunchtime. so they have to change clothe if we introduce school uniform. About morning time, she suggests to prepare what they wear in the previous night. In addition, she worrys about that students don't wear school uniform properly. For example, girls shorter the length of a skirt. In the ending, she agrees with Lucus's idea, because there is not bug problem now as Robert said.

Lucus: Disagree
He worries about money problem. School and students need much money to make and buy school uniform. About trouble in morning, every students don't think that choosing clothe is troublesome now, so we don't need to worry about that. Besides, he insists that by wearing school uniform, they lose personality and some people judge the student's ability by it. If he or she wears school uniform of superior school, some judge he or she is suoerior student. In the ending, he suggests to make school budge. It shows both of coopeeration and personality. School budge shows cooperation and their clothe shows their personality. The school budge is given by school free.

Conclusion:

We make a school budge, don't make a school uniform.

My comment:

 However sometimes I couldn't hear well, so I wanted them to speak louder, the discussion progresses smoothly. It was last panel discussion and very good one!!!

Thirteenth panel discussion

Topic: We must introduce rental system of textbooks instead of  free of charge

Moderator: Ashley Turner
Panelists: Lucy Walter, Sara Cooper, Isabela Horan, Sophie Dawson, Emily Thoma


Lucy: Disagree
She thinks introducing the system has some problems. For example, students cannot mark on textbooks and they cannot use them at home. However, finally, she agrees the topic because she notice that the rental system has a lot of good points and both of agree side and disagree side want to make students to study harder than now.


Emily: Disagree
She also worries about that students cannot memo on textbooks because she thinks that to memo on textbook is important to understand contents of classes well. By introducing the rental system, we save money and agree side insists the point. However, she say that she don't mind paying for children because studying of children is important for not only themselves but also our future. Besides,she thinks that if we introduce the system, it is difficult to manage all textbook by teachers. It is hard to carry textbooks from teacher's room to classroom every classes. To make students to concentrate on studying, we should keep the system of free distribution because private textbooks make student's motivation higher.


Isabela: Disagree
She has same anxiety as Emily does. Besides, she thinks that new textbooks make students to want to study.


Sophie: Agree
Now, we have to pay tax for textbook every year. The cost is too big. If we introduce the system, we can save money and we can use the money for other effective things, for example, to make more comfortable classroom for student's studying. Besides, she suggests that teachers give textbooks to students in the begginig of a semester and collecte all the textbooks in the ending the semester, so they can bring them to their home. However, if they damage and lose them, they have to pay. Regarding the opinion of Kofy that some students don't want to use the textbook which other student used, she suggests to cgange to new one for the students. Moreover, regarding the question of Carol that can students buy a private textbook if they want to do so?, she answers yes, but they should pay by themselves. After she discuss with Sara, she suggests that in elementary school, teachers give textbooks students in beginning of the class and students should return them to teacher in the ending of the class. About the textbook despository, she suggests to keep them on a shelf in teacher's room. In the last, she speaks about the main purpose od introducing the system. The main purpose is to make students to concentrate on studying. Feeling of secutiry that contents of classes are on textbook make them not to concentrate on class.


Sara: Agree
The cost of textbook is so big. She worries about the point. Besides, if we introduce the system, students don't have to worry about forgetting textbook at home. Regarding the anxiety that students cannot draw and take a memo on textbook by introducing the system, she replies that they can memo on their notebooks and teachers can copy if they need. Regarding my question that every time textbook is changed, should we buy each time?, she answers that we insert changing point as a paper. After the discussion with Sophie, she adds the reason of the suggestion of Sophie. The reason is that elementary school students are so young and thay can lose and damage to texebooks. She suggests that fifth and sixth grade students can bring them to their home just in test period, and junior high school students can bring back textbooks to their home everyday. Moreover, she insists that introducing the system is good for eco. In the last, she says that the main purpose of the system is to make students to concentrate on studying.

Conclusion:

We set trial period in an elementary school. If we get good result of  the test, we introduce the rental system of textbooks.

My comment:

This discussion went off without a hitch. However I think there is a gap of the number of times says something betweens panelists. It is the ideal that all panelists speak frequently.

Twelveth panel discussion

Topic: Teachers shouldn't give any homework to students.

Moderator: Rie
Panelists: Anna, Rachel, Kate, Alex

Opinions:

Anna: Agree
She thinks that students can spend their time effectively if they don't have to do homework. For example, she can have hours of sleep enough, review contents of clesses that they cannot understand and play games. Moreover, she thinks that students can have enough time to study in class and they should study by themselves at home. independent study is more effective than homework because they can concentrate on contents that they want to study. She suggests to make students to do assignment that has a few questions in the morning at school. By it, students can review.

Rachel: Agree
She thinks that students can have free time such as playing sports and playing with friends without homework. School give same homework to all students, but students' ability are different depends on students. Moreover, she thinks that it is possible for students to know whether they can understand or not in class hours. At the last, she suggests to give homework in weekday and not to give it to students during vacation. During long vacation, they have the opportunity to experience various things such as Intership.

Kate: Disagree
She thinks that without homework, some students don't have to study at home and studying is essential to realize their dream. Besides, she worry about the case of that they can't understand contents of classes and don't try to understand it by themselves. By doing homework, they can know which content is that they cannot understand.

Alex: Disagree
He thinks that homework help students to understand contents of classes. Without homework, some students play game, so they cannot spend time effectively. Moreover, reviewing at home is important to students' understand contents of  classes.

Questions and other opinions:

Finnian: Who is students? →　Highschool students.

Mac: There is no university in Apollon. So, why students study?
 →　As a compulsory subject, they study language, math, social studies, biology, economics.

Robert: Which do you discuss recommendation or rule? → Rule.

Sara: She points out that agree side talk about students who want to study and otherside talk about students who don't want to study.

Lucus: Elementary and junior high school teacher have to tell students to study by own, If they do so, highschool students don't need homework because they can study by own.

Conclusion:

Teachers must not to give any homework to highschool students. Besides, elementary and junior highschool teachers have to tell students to study by own.

My comment:

I think that panelist should set the detail such as who is students. Panelists tried to help the moderator, it was good. Moderator need to calm down though it is very difficult.

Eleventh panel discussion

Topic：　Should we make 24-hour childcare center?

Moderator: Angelina
Panelists: Laura, Mac, Tama, Jac and Belle(me)

Opinions:

Jac disagree
 He has a child, and he cannot take care of her sometimes. However he can rely on his parents, so he can't understand why we need to make 24-hour childcare center. In case of parents who don't have parents, he thinks that they can rely on relatives. Besides, he thinks that safety is more important than money and asking a baby-sitter to look after children is safer than 24-hour childcare center because in case of baby-sit, children can stay at their house as Tama says. In the end, he suggests to collect signatures to be admitted to make the center by the government.


Tama disagree
 She thinks asking 24-hour childcare center to look after children is dangerous and cannot rely on the childcare worker because it is easier to happen crimes because there aren't people in the town at night, and we canot help employing workers who don't have licenses, so we should rely on our parents. We should employ workers who have licenses, but she worries about money mottesrs. She suggests to employ baby-sitter instead of 24-hour childcare center. Of course, we need money to employ them, but in case of baby-sitter, children can stay at their house, so it is safer and their mental burden is greatly lightened.


Belle disagree
 I think that it is difficult to be admitted by the government because I've never seen who need the center, so I don't think that there are a lot of people who need it. As a result, the childcare center cannot get support by the government and we have to pay much money to left our children there. Besides, I also think that the education when children are young is very important for formation of personality. Although I think that it iis difficult to be admitted by the government to make the center, it is possible to do depend on acctions by people who need it.


Laura agree
 Her family is two-income one, so it is difficult to look after their children sometimes because of their work. There are a lot of parents like that. Besides, she thinks that single-parent families want it, because we can get bigger money by working at night and many people work at night. She disagrees with employing baby-sitter because we need bigger money than 24-hour childcare center and she thinks that 24-hour childcare center is safer that baby-sit.

Mac agree
 He and his wife work at night, so they can't take care of their children. The same is may be said of single-parents. He also worry about parents who don't have their parents because they can't rely on the parents when they are busy. Against Tama's anxiety for asking workers who don't have a license to look after children, he suggests to employ who have a license by support of the government. He thinks that we should make facilities that helps parents' childcare because we have the problem of decreasing birthrate. Besides, he disagrees with employing baby-sitter instead of 24-hour childcare center because he worries about tha the baby-sitter causes crimes that is connected with children. In the middle of the discussion, Anna says that some parents leave children with the center for a long time, so he suggests to establise the limit of children's staying at the center and make a rule that parents should submit application when they can't keep to the limit because of their work or urgent business. He says that "we" that we use means citizens of Apollon, and citizens and the government run the center together in answer to Robert's questions. In addition that, he answers Lucy's question "who is manager of the center?"  and suggests to appoint the government as a financier, a citizen as a director. In the end, he insists that we should ask the government to reconsider budget to get aid to
make and run the center.

Conclusion:

Citizens of Apollon make 24-hour childcare centers, and the government should reconsider budget in 

order to give aid to them.

My comment: 

I think that disagree side's opinion had no evidence, powers of persuastion. We couldn't prepare evidences, the topic was too difficult for us. We should had to choose appropriate topic.

Tenth panel discussion

Topic: We should prohibit students from working part-time jobs.

Moderator: Carol

Panelists: Finnian, Hanna, Kofy, Lucus, Allie

Opinions

Finnian agree

She thinks that students should concentrate on studying or club activity and worries about thatsome of them can hang out with their friends if we permit them to work. In addition that, she also worries about that they fall asleep in class because probably, they don't have the time to rest, so they are very tired, and they can't keep up with the class. In the end, she agrees with the topic and suggest to let them to  work by 10:00 p.m and school choose their jobs and provide the jobs for them.

Hanna agree 

She thinks that they should study with first priority and the money that they get by the part-time job is  not good for them, because they may come not to obey their parents by it. Besides, she points out that the money to go to school is too big to earn by theirselves, so they don't need to work for shcool and suggests that the government supports them to go to school. She also suggests to permit them to work on condition of time, age and type of jobs. She thinks that news delivery is good, but the shops which permit to drink and smoke for the guests is not good for students' place of work. In the end, her idea to combine Sophie and Finnian and Lucus's idea into one is adopted.
〈Sophie's idea〉She suggests to make part-time job club, and school can control and guard them from bad environment.

Kofy agree

She is writer, so she wants students to read books and of course, to study. They can get knowledge by reading books. Because of the part-time job, the time to study decrease, so there is a risk of that they can't understand the content of the class completely. Against Robert's opinion (that junior high school students can choose whether they go to high school or not, so we shouldn't discuss in case of junior high school and high school together, and in case of high, if they want to do part-time job, we shouldn't prohibit them), she suggests to focus on junior high school's case.

Lucus disagree
He doesn't have enough money to go to school, he worries about that some children can't go to school. Against Finnian's opinion ( if we permit students to work, some hang out with their friends), he suggests that parents should manage children and their money. He doesn't think that all students should do part-time job, but some have to do of necessity. Of course, although students can't pay the total of school money by theirselves, they can make up for the money by part-time job. Besides, he
 suggests to make a rule that they can't work without permission by school and parents.

Allie disagree
There are a lot of things to learn from part-time job such as importance of the money and concentrating on one thing for short time, and they can help their family income by their income from part-time job. Besides, she thinks that they can use the money for their hobby and it is good. In addition that, she suggests that they should work before the school and we permit all junior high school students to work, and a worksite is good for students' work place.

Conclusion

Students have to get parents' and school's permission and school can choose whether make part-time job club or provide job to students. Students can work before thn

school and by 10:00 p.m.

My comment 

This panel discuss was very good. All panelists spoke very positively and moderator advanced the discussion smoothly and harmonized panelists' opinion well, but I
wanted them to spoke more loud, I expect them to do so next time!!

Nineth panel discussion

Topic: Can we submit a bid to host the Olympics?

Moderator: Sara

Panelits: Emily, Isabela, Lucy, Sophie, Ashley

Opinions

Emily: agree
She expects for many people to come to Apollon, to get benefit and to get a chance to advertise Apollon to other country by holding the Olympic. Besides, she thinks that we should hold expenses to the minimun because most people worry about the cost. We need to build facilities for guests and players. Though some people is opposed to do so, but she suggests to use the facilities for a concert and some events after the Olympic.


Isabela: agree
She is a cheerleader, so wants to join the Olympic. Besides, she thinks that many young children are interested in the event and want to take part in the event, so if we hold the Olympic in Apollon, their motivationn will be up. Some people worry about the lack of facilities, but she suggests to use standing buildings instead of building new facilities. She thinks that we can cover the cost problem with taxes. Robert points out that the Olympic is too big for Apollon, so she suggests to hold World Cup in Apollon and approves of holding Sunflower Marathon that is Rachel's idea, because she thinks that we can communicate with foreigners. In addition to that, she suggests to hold the marathon on Sunflower Festival as a content of it.


Lucy: agree
She thinks that it is good way of exchange with other countries, and it is good for also economic and tourism. She expects to improve the image of Apollon. In a second half, she suggests to co-host the Olympic with other country.


Sophie: disagree
She worry about the lack of places and money. We must build stadiums and gyms. Besides, she suggests to hold triathlon instead of the Olympic, because triathlon matches with Apollon's nature and we don't need buildings for it.


Ashley: disagree
We need huge money and large places. Some past host counries were in the black but others were in the red such as Montreal Olumpic, and we must build stadiums and create an Olympic village and need to build other facilities for the Olympic. Apollon is not big, so land area is not enough.

Conclusion

We'll held Sunflower Marathon on Sunflower Festival as a content of it.

My comment:

I think it was good to end it a conclusion, and all panelists spoke often. However, I want more information about Olympic and land of Apollon.

Eighth panel discussion

Topic： Should we introduce sales tax system?

First opinions:

Ree: He agrees with introducing the system. He has three reasons. First is the gap between law income people and high income people. Second, he thinks that corporation tax is better than sales tax. Last, he also thinks that income tax is better.


Rachel: She also disagrees, because it is hard for law income people to pay sales tax.


Amy: She agrees with the idea, because it is possible that people won't buy something. She worries about the situation.


Ana: She agrees, too. The government can gather money easily by introducing the system.


Alex: He also agrees, because his son will be a student next year and he need much money for school education. He expects that education fee will be aided by the system.

Opinions and Questions:

Ree: I think the all education fee can't be paid by sales tax.  What do you think?
Alex: I understad that, but a part of the education fee will be aided. It is ok.
Ree: There are some ways of gathering the education money.
Alex: Yes, I think so. But what will you do in accident? If we don't introduce the system, we can't accept aid of medical cost.
Ree: Yes, so we need to save money by myself against emergencies.


Kate: The government need money for Sunflower Festival but some people worry about law income people. What do you think?
Ana: I suggest to reduce the rate of sales tax of them.
Ree:What is persentage of sales tax?
Ana: After we decide to introduce the system, we should decide that.


Rachel: We pay sales tax when we buy something in shops, so it is difficult to judge who is law income people.
Ana: We research the income of citizens and give a kind of paper to law income people, and they show the paper when they buy something. They don't have to pay sales tax as same as high income people.


Ree: I think that income tax is better than sales tax, because sales tax is unfair.
Ana: Do you think income tax is fair?
Ree：Almost.
Ana: I think that sales tax is good, because the government gather much money easily.
Ree: I think your idea is reasonable.


Amy: In spite of that our income won't rise, we have to pay sales tax, more money. What do you think about that?
Ana: I agree with your idea, but we decided holding Sunflower Festival to make Apollon famous and we have national debt, so the government have to gather money and citizens have to pay more money.


Rachel: You said that we decided holding Sunflower Festival, so we need more money. If we introduce the system, every price will rise, so tourists don't feel good. I'm afraid of the decrease of the number of tourists.
Ana: I can understand what you said, so I suggest to make duty-free shops.


Isabera: What kinds od tax do you have now in Apollon?
Ana: Except for income tax and sales tax.
Rachel: For example, residence tax and so on.


Lucus: If we set the rate of tax is 50%, you can disagree with introducing the system, I think. What is the rate of tax do you want to set?
Alex: About 3%.


Rachel: I worry about appearing who don't want to pay the tax and want to immigrate to other country without taxes.
Ana: The government can stop them. The dicision is by the citizens, so they have to pay taxes.


Alex: For law income people, sales tax is unfair, you said. But I think income tax is unfair for high income people.
Ree: I suggest to introduce progressive tax system.
Ana: Income tax system is not fair, we think. If we introduce the reduce sales tax rate system, it is fair, I think.

Couclusion:

We cannot decide we introduce which income tax or sales tax. If we introduce sales tax, we set the rate is 3%.

My comment:

I think this disccusion is very good. The moderator is very calm and it is easy to understand what panelists try to say by her. I respect her. The panelist's opinions are also good.