Public high school students ought not be required to pass standardized exit exams to graduate

I affirm the resolution that Public High School students in the United States ought not be required to pass standardized exams in order to graduate. I order to clarify the round I tender the following definitions as is in Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Standardize To bring into conformity with a standard Exam An exercise designed to test qualification of knowledge Graduate To pass from on level of experience, proficiency, or prestige into a higher one The value for the round is Societal Welfare through Justice as Fairness. Philosopher John Rawls say that Justice "is the first virtue of social institution, as truth is to systems of thought." This means that the first obligation of our decision-making here is Justice. In order to consider anything else throughout the round we must first create a fundamentally sound Society with Justice. The criterion for this round must therefore be minimizing unjust inequalities. Rawls had two principles which, when gratified, lead us to a Just society. By using my criterion we achieve the former. In accordance with Rawls's second principle of justice, inequalities can be justified through one of two principles: a.The inequality must be attached to a position accessible to every member of the community under some condition. b.The inequality must be to the advantage of the least advantaged members of the community. Observation one: The resolution asks us too really get down to the nitty gritty of one subject, which avenue of debate will better the students of our society in the United States? Well, to answer this question we have to look to impacts. If we look at the impact of not having a sound community based on Justice then where will that lead us to? If we do not achieve justice at one of the simplest levels of our society, then how can we be expected to achieve it elsewhere within our Legal System? So, therefore Society must uphold fairness and equality in its education system in order for the society to be considered fair. Contention one: Standardized exit exams unfairly examine students of different intelligences. In the 1940's a huge discovery was made concerning the human brain. A surgeon, Brian Sperry was performing a relatively new procedure, the corpus callosotomy, where the corpus callosumin the patients brain is severed. He discovered that the left half of our brains and the right half of out brains work independently of each other and communicate through the corpus callosum. Sperry's patients acted like two separate people. One half of their body could easily recognize a pencil if it was handed to them and explain how it was used but could barely right with it. The other half could easily write with the pencil, but had trouble naming it or describing it. This is because our left brains work logically and analytically and learn facts and figures. Out right brains work creatively and spatially and learn actions and how to perform them. In "A Whole New Mind", a New Your Times Best-Seller on psychoanalysis, Daniel Pink claims that "the shift in power has been made from left-brain to right-brain thinkers. The 21st century will put far more value on the creative, spaial intelligence of right-brained thinkers than the logical, analytical left-brained thinkers." The left brain oriented person can answer questions and take tests. The righ brain oriented person can demonstrate how things are done. Left-brained thinkers will be far less impacted by the test, because it tests them on exactly what they're good at, answering questions. This causes a disparaging inequality between the two ï¿½€˜intelligences,' which certainly isn't accessible to every member of the community, one of Rawls's criteria for fairness. For the safety of my debate case I will reveal no more than this. I must compete in actual rounds this year!