Practice Ideas for Debate Topics

   1.  Should students be permitted to leave school during lunch?

   2.  Should schools institute uniforms?

   3.  Should teens be permitted to create school meal menus?

   4.  Should a job, such as washing cars or baby-sitting, be permitted if grades are poor?

   5.  Should teens be allowed to use their own money to purchase whatever they want?

   6.  Should students be allowed to get any haircut they want?

   7.  Should teens be permitted to have a party without chaperones?

   8.  Should teens be allowed to go anywhere they want to with their friends?

   9. Should teens be given an allowance or an increase of allowance without cause?

10.  Should teens be permitted to go to a PG-13 or R rated movie?

11.  Must teens inform their parents about their whereabouts?

12.  Should teens be permitted to have a pet?

13.  Should teens be required to do chores around the house?  Which jobs?

14.  Should teens be permitted to have private drawers or closets?

15.   Must teens dress up for those special occasions that adults feel are important?

16.  Should teens be allowed to take up any hobby or musical instrument?

17.  Should teens be allowed to stay home when the family goes to visit someone for the day?

18.  Should teens be permitted to have a TV in their bedrooms?

19.  Should teens be allowed to have ears or body parts pierced?

20.  Should teens be allowed to get a tattoo?

21.  Should teens be required to wear mandatory bicycle helmets?

22.  Should students have homework assignments every night?

23.  Should there be corporal punishment at school?

24.  Does society have a right to put someone to death?

25.  Should you have a curfew?  If so, when should the curfew be?

26.  Should school hours be changed to 12:00 to 6:00 pm.

27.  Should students be allowed to bring their pets to school?

28.  Should students be allowed to choose the books that are being assigned for a course?

29.  Should students have the freedom to choose their own books?

30.  Should the age to vote, smoke, or drink be raised or lowered?

31. Should kids between the ages of ten and thirteen be allowed at the mall without adult supervision?

32. Should skateboards be allowed on sidewalks?

33. Should animals be used for scientific experimentation?

34. Should Pokemon cards be allowed in schools?

35. Is television is better than books?

36. Do girls have it better than boys?

37. Should computers replace teachers?

38. Beauty is only skin deep.

39. Is man in charge of his own destiny?