Debate Classes in Phoenix
Learning to argue well, and to be argued with
Debate is the one speaking skill where somebody is actively trying to take apart what your child just said. That changes how you prepare: a case has to survive contact, not merely sound good in a mirror. Children here learn to build an argument, anticipate the reply, and answer it while still standing up.
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Learning to argue well, and to be argued with
In public speaking your child controls the content. In elocution they deliver someone else’s piece beautifully. Neither prepares them for the moment an opponent finds the hole in their reasoning thirty seconds after they sit down. Debate is where a child learns that being contradicted is not an attack, and that changing your mind in public is a strength.
Phoenix has a fast-growing Indian community in the East Valley, largely engineers in semiconductors and tech. Arizona is also the one place in the continental US that does not change its clocks, which quietly matters: for half the year Phoenix is on Pacific time and for the other half on Mountain, and batch timings have to be built with that in mind.
Case construction — claim, reason, evidence, impact
Rebuttal drilled live against a real opponent, every single class
Both sides of every motion argued, so positions are reasoned not inherited
Timed speeches, so structure has to hold under a clock
Batch timings for Phoenix
Live classes on MST, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Weekday 6:00 to 7:30 PM Arizona time, which is 6:30 to 8:00 AM in India all year, since neither place uses daylight saving. Saturday morning batches run as well. Phoenix is one of the few US cities where the offset to India never moves.
Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe and Scottsdale are where most Phoenix Indian families live.
What your child walks away able to do
A four-minute case delivered from notes rather than memory
The ability to rebut an argument heard for the first time
Composure while being disagreed with in front of an audience
Inside the debate classes curriculum
A few of the modules a year of debate classes covers. The full sequence is on the class page.
- 01What Makes an Argument
- 02Building a Case
- 03Listening to Rebut
- 04Points of Information
Three simple steps to begin
1. Tell us about your child
Call or WhatsApp us and say where your child is starting from. For debate classes that matters — the mentor pitches the first class to what they can already do.
2. Personal guidance from a mentor
A real, live class, not a sales call. The mentor works with your child for the full session and then tells you honestly whether this is the right class of ours for them.
3. Pick a slot that survives the school week
We place your child in a batch built for MST. Weekday 6:00 to 7:30 PM Arizona time, which is 6:30 to 8:00 AM in India all year, since neither place uses daylight saving.
“Living in California, we worried our kids would lose their roots. The online Shloka and Gita classes changed that. They chant every morning now, and understand what the words mean.”
Debate Classes in Phoenix, FAQs
In public speaking your child chooses the content and nobody contradicts them. In debate someone argues the opposite and will name the weakness in what was just said. The preparation, the note-taking and the nerve required are all different.
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