Technical debate
POSITIVE TEAM
MOTION: THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THAT UAN SHOULD BE BANNED.
1ST SPEAKER:
Good morning ladies and gentlemen…
It is our delighted that today we can stand here as the positive team to deliver the motion of debate today, it is: THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THAT UAN SHOULD BE BANNED.
Now let me define what UAN is.
Ladies and gentlemen, UAN is a test done at the end of the year at every education level, from elementary school, junior high school and high school to measure whether students should be able to finish the study or not. But here, our team will just focus on UAN at junior high school.
You know ladies and gentlemen, that UAN as the only measurement to decide whether the students graduate or not has immerged many problems for those in charged from students, school and even parents.
Thus, ladies and gentlemen, we as the positive team ask that UAN should be abolished because students and schools are not ready yet with the high passing grade.
Now, let me tell you of why UAN needs to abolish.
1. Because of insufficient facilities for some schools in reaching national standard achievement.
2. The failure will give bad effects to students, school even the parents.
Okay, now I am as the 1st speaker would like to elaborate of why UAN is better to be abolished from the perspective of insufficient facilities of some schools. While the other point of view will be delivered by the 2nd speaker.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, since UAN agreed to be a measurement of students ability during their studying time, it has created some problems to students and school because the passing grade cannot be achieved by some students. Before this problem is solved, it is found that the passing grade is increased year to year.
To achieve national standard passing grade all schools must have national standard facilities. But, what happens in Indonesia? Not all schools have national standard equipments. We even just started to have SSN or Sekolah Standar National. In fact, there are only …..SSN throughout Indonesia. In Ponorogo we only have 1school as the SSN and 2 RSBI. Schools with SSN and RSBI label and schools in cities are advanced in technology. The facilities there are a lot better than the schools in remote place such as in Ngrayun. You know, Ngrayun is hard to access. It is mountainous area, the facilities are so conventional, less internet access, and usually schools in remote place has insufficient teacher. Moreover, there are fewer teachers who are capable in their major. So, how students in Ngrayun or in remote place can be expected to have better quality than students who are equipped well? Because it is definitely that good facilities in technology and information will help students in studying. So, it is unfair if schools with the minimum facilities are expected to have the same quality with those who are well equipped. So, the government should delay the UAN until all schools in Indonesia have the national standard facilities.
From the explanation above, again ladies and gentlemen, we: from the Positive team believe that UAN should be abolished. Many schools are really unready to fulfill the national standard needs.
Well ladies and gentlemen, that’s our perspective of why UAN should be abolished. Thank you.
Negative Team
1st Speaker
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, thank you for the time given.
I am as the 1st speaker of negative would like to expose what UAN is. Yes, like what positive team said, it is a test to measure whether students are successfully accomplished their studying or not. But more than that, it is also a way to increase the quality of Indonesia education. How to know if a student is credible or not, successful in studying or not it needs to be tested and one of them is by having UAN.
So ladies and gentlemen, we: as negative team disagrees if UAN is abolished. UAN will make all students aware of how important it is to study.
To support our stance, let me tell you our point of view of why UAN should exist. We classify the reasons into two perspectives:
1. UAN can increase the education quality in Indonesia.
2. Indonesia needs to set a national standard grade achievement.
Now, here is our argument of the first perspective and the other will be elaborated by the 2nd speaker.
Well ladies and gentlemen, there are many languages in Indonesia then we should have one language to unite the people, so it comes up bahasa Indonesia. It is an analogy, means that in education we also need a standard. Students are considered to be successful in studying if they can reach a certain standard by the government. Why must the standard come from the government? It is because the materials in all subjects are also decided by the government. So, al the material all over Indonesia is the same. The questions for all schools are the same. This test is really logical. By having UAN then the school know how the teaching learning process work. Actually UAN can be a kind of evaluation for the schools whether the schools has met the government national standard or not.
That’s my argument that UAN should exist for Indonesia to have a standard goal in education. Now, I’ll go to the rebuttal.
Ladies and gentlemen, the 1st speaker of positive team said that: “There are many schools in Indonesia are less in facilities to support the teaching learning process.”
REPLY: You know, it is a shallow thought because positive team view the quality of education is based on the modern equipments. They forget the factors to have good students are not only from facility supports but it can come from the good environment. We can take an example of Laskar Pelangi. Everything there was really limited: Not enough teacher, bad school building, the students are from poor family and the school just has few students. But their motivation can bring them to be prestigious. Remote place has good weather, less pollution and calm. They are all needed in studying.
UAN is a good thing. And every thing always has obstacles. But don’t let the obstacles block the good idea. We realize that the national standard facilities aren’t well spread but we know that the government is on the way there. The government facilitates schools with BOS that can help the schools fulfill their need in educating students. One thing that we have to remember that nothing will work best at once. All needs time and process. Now, Indonesia is on the process phase to introduce the national standard quality to schools. So, there is no reason to abolish UAN.
From argument and reply of what the positive rebut, we: negative team sure that UAN must be done because it has good goal in future for the education in Indonesia. Thank you.