RESOLVED: An ideal form of No Child Left Behind would be beneficial to the welfare of the USA

Ok, I would like your response to be in a timely manner. Like within an hour of me posting mine. Ideal - adj. - conceived as constituting a standard of perfection or excellence - existing only in the imagination; not real or actual Definitions from dictionary.com. Ideal = perfect. Opponent's case: CONTENTION ONE: -- What would we do if everyone was too smart? There'd be way too much competition for a job. We gotta keep some dumb people around. The resolution states that NCLB would be beneficial to the USA welfare, not an individuals welfare. While it may be true that people are overqualified to be working as a trash collector or a fast food, this is a very good thing for the United States. Also, the hotly contested jobs get an even better employee when they have so many people to choose from. With a great education everyone can do their jobs to the fullest. This is definitely a great "problem" to have. CONTENTION TWO: 1) Students want to learn -- With a perfect form of education it would both be fun and rewarding for students to learn. I think most people like having fun, unless you're emo (I really hope the judge isn't emo), so wanting to learn would be instilled into every kid. Well, unless you're the aforementioned emo, but then I guess you can do our dirty jobs that con seems to think would be a huge problem. Ideal = fun. Fun = want - emo. 2) Checks and balances -- It's perfect meaning there are no flaws in the law. I have no idea how this would be accomplished, but let's go back to the definition of ideal. 1. It is perfect. 2. Exists only in imagination. Nobody knows how this would be accomplished since it can only be dreamt up, but it will be perfect. If indeed NCLB is perfect, then a complex system of checks must be in place that is perfect. CONTENTION THREE: -- I don't know where you're going when you bring up the ghetto. The Germans didn't educate the Jews and certainly didn't have NCLB. Once again perfect = fun. Your lazy immigrants won't drop out if education is fun. We can assume that the system in its perfection has no dropouts. If there are no dropouts then everything is fair. CONTENTION FOUR: -- If indeed the system is perfect then funding will be a non-issue. Money doesn't create education (http://economics.gmu.edu...). I don't know how perfection works, but it would undoubtedly get 100% performance with a minimum budget. Even if it did take a large budget to get 100% performance (which it does get, since it is working perfectly) then the money generated would more than cover it. A high market, as con puts it, is great for the country. It may not allow people to get better jobs, but it drastically increases the productivity of the jobs they get. More productivity = more money. My case: 1) Increase of education - I would probably be on Capitol Hill if I knew how to make education perfect. A perfect form of NCLB meets its goals 100%. If its goal is to increase education, then education will be increased. If learning is fun then people want to learn (except emos; they don't like fun). 2) Smarter people, better jobs - People might not get better jobs, but the resolution doesn't care. It's not "An ideal form of NCLB would be beneficial to a 4.0 student trying to find a job." Beneficial to the USA. If people are smarter, then the jobs that they do will be done way better. People would undoubtedly work at the grocery store and these people would be smarter with the increase of education brought about by NCLB. That means that your groceries would be sacked perfectly and you would never have a bag break. The less bag breaks you have, the less you'll have to buy at the store to replace such items. The less you spend at the store, the more you can spend elsewhere which means more mullah in la economia. Great economy = good for the USA. 3) Better jobs, more money - He agrees that it is theoretically true. We're not debating as realists, but rather as what-if-ists. What would happen if everyone was a genius? We'd get more money. If everyone had a trillion dollars there would be inflation, but not proportional to the increase of one's worth. Since the USA is smarter than every other country, it is then making money off of other countries and not simply printing money to print (as Obama is fond of). The money isn't just coming from the USA, but from global economy. With a brilliant workforce the value of the dollar would be strong internationally. Since a lot of our products are non-domestic, their price would stay relatively the same, but everyone would have more money. Yes there would be slight inflation because if everyone were trillionaires, some money would have to be printed, but the value of the dollar would stay globally unchanged or even improved. So he agrees theoretically with this one. I guess it's a dropped argument. If you try to defend yourself on this topic you automatically lose. -I don't see how agreeing with me on the last topic means that it no longer stands... Anyways I have reinstated all my points and toppled his. I would now like to add more evidence or arguments or whatever you'd like to call it (I personally view it 100% God spoken truth that cannot be refuted). My case: The Sequel I will continue numbering from above 4) My opponent - My opponent is Native American and has very little credibility when it comes to education. His people are among the worst when it comes to school (I really hope the judge isn't Native. Or worse, Native emo). Would you take educational advice from somebody that is only 1 out of 2 of his people to graduate? I certainly wouldn't. Source: http://www.parapundit.com... http://books.google.com... (I would encourage you to read all 243 pages of this book) http://books.google.com... (Please read all 431 pages) If my opponent fails to refute every point in both of those books, then this is a dropped argument. -- In most of my opponent's contentions he refers to how NCLB could be bad for individuals. That's not the resolution. Would it be better for the United States? Clearly yes. If everyone was a genius then people will likely get the same jobs they would've gotten prior to perfect education, but they would do their jobs much better; and the people that live off the government (natives) would actually get jobs. If everyone does their job better then it's good for the USA. Therefore ideal NCLB is good for the USA and the resolution is upheld. Thank you and please respond immediately. If you don't respond within an hour, it's a forfeit.