15 Good Debate Topics for Middle School in 2018

Let’s proceed to the list of good debate topics for middle school in 2018. Insider Monkey has recently published an interesting article about it giving you some advice. There are a number of subjects addressed in our list, from school requirements to government regulation. Middle school is a time when students are just beginning to develop their serious debate skills, and these topics are the perfect tool for this development. Foreign policy and other complicated subjects may be a little above the level of a sixth grader, and more a debate topic for high school, so we made sure to choose topics that were both important and age appropriate to middle school debate. If you’re an adult, and you’re a little rusty on some of these debate topics, you might want to study up on some of them so you truly can be smarter than a middle school student.

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Now without a further ado let’s see what Insider Monkey has investigated for us. We have picked three good debate topics for middle school in 2018 from their list.

The first one is An oppressive government is more desirable than no government. This seems more like a rather unfair would you rather question than a debate topic, but it’s certainly worth considering. The second topic can be It is morally permissible to kill one innocent person to save the lives of more innocent people. Also, a terribly difficult one on our list of good debate topics for middle school in 2018, when you think about it, though the answer may seem obvious at first. At last, but not least let’s see An adolescent’s right to privacy ought to be valued above a parent’s conflicting right to know. This actually may not be the correct question to ask a middle school student, because they probably all agree on it.

For any further useful information, read Insider Monkey’s article about 15 good debate topics for middle school in 2018.

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