STARS

Is STARS a debate team, really? I had thought debate teams were assigned a view to have, forced to research, and then made to argue their point. But with STARS, I feel as though it could get too personal if people use their own views. I've often wanted to try to participate in one of their arguments, but I was afraid that things could get too personal. When you have a choice of what view you want, this is when things get personal. Other's will start attacking your view instead of a random view you were just assigned. I think this could be a bit dangerous because it could ultimately hurt kids without people knowing it. I think the idea of STARS is good; just a place where ideas can be debated on. But I think it needs to be more like a debate team where teams or kids are assigned a view and then forced to argue why their view is right.