lRound 1

Motion1: TH, as an Asian parents, would not pressure their children to succeed
academically.
1. Status quo:
- Prop: Try searching “How many students committing suicide are there
per year ?” on Google, a-800-thousand result will appear on your screen.
And the very first heading is related to “The obsession named academic
studying and exam result in Asia”. So why is this happening? Almost
every case is caused by a mass pressure in academy from parents . And
that is the reason why...
2. Defi + Chara:
● Defi:
- 'Pressure' means the use of influence to make sb to sth (in extreme way),
push others to one's own idea. Specifically it can be a type of stress which
means forcing people to achieve a certain goal as their desire/ hope.
● Chara:
- Asian society: (consists of developing countries) and asian citizens
requires perfectionism in almost every perspective/ fixed mindset
about everything especially academy → students are
under high pressure from parents. (E.g: In etiquette, in
daily style, in timing custom, family rules...)
- (Students) Succeed academically: intelligent, lots of rewarding
achievements, much beneficial background knowledge
+ Prop: 'Industrial chicken', lack of soft skills, no chance to develop
innate/ inborn ability, follow fixed route that parents have drawn
without being aware of what they’re doing and why they are doing
so.
+ Opp:

3. Purpose + Scale:
- Prop:
+) Stakeholder: students, family, society
+) Purpose:
1. Ensure the holistic enhancement of students
2. The family members live in complete concord, happiness
3. Assure that society can develop comprehensively.
 - Opp:
+) Stakeholder: students, family, society
+) Purpose:
1.
4. Arguments:
Prop
Point 1: Make students gain holistic
enhancement (including mental
improvement, social skills,
performance in academy/ other fields)
_ Mental health: Dr. Nguyen Tung
Lam - President of Vietnam
Association of Psychology &
Education said that the conflict
between parents’ expectation and
students’ ability is not just a common
familiar story - it is a true serious
social problem. Lots of students are
put under much pressure to succeed/
get to the top in academy.
Situation 1: To succeed, they're
forced to study and study
only. They aren't allowed /
don’t even have any chance
to access other fields to
explore themselves → don't
know what their true dreams
are, what majors should they
pursue, and significantly,
what the aims for all their
work they have been doing
are, follow their parents' fixed
mindset (they must be
successful) without being
aware of what is truly suitable
for them → become
dependent on parents in
years to come, can’t be
responsible for themselves,
Opp
Point 1: Ensure the higher rate of
students’ success in getting a stable
job (especially some main industrial
work)
_ To survive in this
competitive society and to
gain a good job → pressure is
necessary, crucial and vital
+ Pressure is motivation:
+ Pressure especially in academy
trains us to be more patient,
more sustainable in the current
context
=> Pressure comes from good
intention.
REBUTTAL:
1. Motivation: When good
intentions are not put in
suitable place (specifically in
Asian society), they will
become worse and worse, and
even become a real disaster.
Ex: Children dream of being a
dancer or a musician, but
parents want them to be a
President or a CEO to earn
handsome income without
caring about their children’s
dreams, as well as neglect
their hobbies and potential
abilities → put heavy pressure
indecisive
Situation 2: They do not have an
aptitude for academic
subjects and they're
undeniably good at some
areas: art, sports… They don’t
have the right to make their
own decision about their
future, their career. Some
cannot make dreams come
true as they are just pushed
down that academic route by
their family, follow their fixed
mindset (they must be
successful) without being
aware of what is truly suitable
for them → become
dependent on parents in
years to come, can’t be
responsible for themselves,
indecisive → live a
meaningless life, live for
parents not for themselves.
Situation 3: They do have
opportunity to participate in
extra-curricular activities or
engage in other disciplines
and they are entitled to being
what they want. Therefore,
they're getting enough
pressure. But if parents still
move on pushing/ stressing
them in academy →
imbalance and failure → they
will get stuck, be tired and the
problem will be worsened.
_ Pressure gets them suffer lots of
trouble in mental health. Many are too
tired to suffer from such pressure any
more. They also have to face to other
outer factors like: teachers,
on them, force them to learn
to satisfy themselves (good
intention but wrong method)
→ likely to make children feel
exhausted and depressed →
mental health
2. Patience and sustainability:
+ Unnecessary: Children
have to suffer from a lot
of hardships, apart from
parents’ pressure,
namely competitive
environment with
friends, high demand
from teachers at school,
fight for the balance
between learning and
studying, the changing
mood at the puberal
period → they find hard
to tackle those
difficulties, let alone
parents’ pressure.
+ Become harmful: When
children get stuck in
such a lot of pressure,
they have to be more
patient and learn to
endure the hardships ,
which may be beyond
their ability→ harm to
health → main cause to
depression. When you
can’t unleash your
negative innermost
feelings for a long time
but keep it to yourself, it
is easy for them to boom
powerfully once you
can’t bear it anymore →
competitiveness amongst students,
social norms / preconception...
+ India: According to India Times,
about 20% students aged ranging
from 4-16 have to suffer from mental
disorders caused by academic
pressure. Every 55 mins, 1 case of
student commit suicide due to
unbearable stress from learning
expected by parents.
+ Vietnam: In year 2015, the death of
a student named T.T from Binh Phuoc
Province created the terrible
obsession for a lot of people. She
committed suicide leaving 5 suicide
notes for her family and teachers. All
5 letters showed her sadness and
depression about her school
performances, which didn’t meet her
parents’ demands. In the letter, she
apologized her parents for not coming
up to their expectations. She felt
exhausted, her world was completely
dark, there was no way for her to
exist. She couldn’t even decide which
uni to go to please her family. All
those notes were definitely a
nightmare for all people for a long
time.
⇒ If we don’t put pressure,
when they fail or get bad
marks, they’ll no longer be
stressed/ less burdens (there
will be no criticism) → no
depression, no suicide and
even more incentive will be
created. (No pressure does
not mean forget or leave
children freely do wrong
things. They fail, they accept,
they learn precious lessons)
even a worm will turn.
3. Well and fully developed
countries:
Whether a society where
every person is a professor is
a fully developed one? Asian
parents have fixed mindset
that children need to have
high qualifications so that
they can be good ones →
force them to be in knowledge
professions, such as doctors,
scientists, teachers,...
→ higher proportion of
unemployment: when
everyone get the same levels
and degrees, the competitive
rate is higher → higher
demand to get a job.
→ imbalance in working force:
+ people are good at
theoretic learning, not skills →
lack of workers, craftsmen,...
→ who will hold responsibility
for building houses, cleaning
the environment,...?
+ a small number of artists,
sportsmen → affects badly to
those fields: entertainment,
sports,...
→ not fully developed nation.
⇒ Instead of putting pressure
on children, we just let them
choose their favourites,
pursue their passion and
decide what to study, what
best fits them. Still,as a
parent, we also need to orient
them, be their advisor and try
our best to keep track of
them, follow their steps and
support, encourage what they
want to do → they will be
more comfortable and feel
free, interested in terms of
learning → better result.
_ Not only do they have high
motivation and satisfaction
because of choosing subjects
that they are interested in, we
also help them to boost a
number of different abilities,
as well as their hobbies, such
as singing, dancing,... as they
can gain more time taking
part in other activities →
enhance social skills.
⇒ boost both academic
knowledge and social skills,
fully developed.
_ In our world, we let our children
freely decide their future, choose their
occupation but still under our sensible
control and good upbringing. When
children fail, they will not regret and
cannot accuse/ blame their faults/
mistakes for parents. They have to
face, be responsible and deal with
what they've done cuz they're all their
own choice and decision without our
pressure. Even when they don't
become boss, directors or presidents,
they can be waiter, waitress in
restaurant but what is important is that
they live healthily and happily. They
can feel satisfied with what they do -
that's enough. ( >< opp)
Point 2: Assure a harmonious and Point 2:
comprehensively developed society.
_ Harmonious life, cozy atmosphere
in family
+ Parents: → better
relationship
+ Children: open lòng,...
_ Children can promote/ advance their
favourite majors
_ Society: as children are of free
choice in learning what they want, the
students who are good at academy
will keep concentrating on their
studying and the new opportunity are
open to artistic students but under no
pressure.
_ Minimizing ... among children
+ children feel free to think
and do whatever they
want without any harsh
barrier → more broad-
minded + less despair
from parents → self-
esteem → connect them
with others.

5. Clash + Scenario:
a) Clash:
- Students’ benefits:
+ Long-term benefits: ensure the length and
satisfaction when children get a job. When children
have a job that she/he isn’t really into but just due to
parents’ force → easily get bored and quitted.
 However, when children can do what they want, they
will feel free and put a lot of efforts in their career.
+ More benefits: While your team just ensure that pupils will receive
wide knowledge academically, our team can even be sure about
both improving both skills and background knowledge by
balancing between them.

b) Scenario
- Opp:
+ A world where children can’t be themselves, can’t make decision
about their life, they have to depend on parents, on family. Your
world will actually be a world of robots, where every kid is
programmed and controlled mainly by their parents, they are
limited in everything they want to achieve.
+ A world lack of entertainment and other abilities, just focus on
academic achievements.
- Prop:
+ Children don’t lose their true identities. They can pursue their
goals, but still balance their academy by being under suitable
parents’ control. They still receive enough care and orientation
from family.
+ A world where every field develop equally → this is
ideal society.

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Round 3:

Motion: TH opposes the practice of selling the land-use-rights of previously-

owned land, at discounted prices, to corporations to develop for residential
and/or tourism purposes.
● Note: We oppose the opposing …
1. Status quo:
- In this day and age, some businesses purchase the land-use-rights at
discounted prices, particularly in the countryside and unsightly locations
for commercial activities. People agree to sell for a wide range of
 individual purposes, however, the most crucial is that in the countryside
and unsightly locations, their prices are hardly high, which means people
sell them at low cost. Also, this action could help transfer waste land into
residential or tourism purposes. Therefore….
2. Defi + charac:
- Previously - owned - land:
- Discounted price: st has discounted price is st being sold at a lower price
than usual.
- Residential/ tourism purposes: st is aimed for the service of citizens,
specifically accommodations or to be used for promoting facilities,
infrastructures to attract a great amount of travellers and visitors.

3. Purposes:
- Assure a better economy
- Ensure citizen's rights
4. Arguments:

Opp Prop
Point 1: Selling land at discounted price
does no harm.
- Citizens are legally allowed to do so
- Because of the location, …
of land → factors determine
the price
Point 2: Help the economy to develop
more and flourish by means of service/
tourism industry.