<p>Which boarding schools have the best debate teams? I'd love to be on a debate team, even though I have no previous experience. It seems like it would be a lot of fun.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>I think Cozmo mentioned something about Exeter having a good debate program...hmm..sorry if im no help!</p>
<p>Check out this article on Exeter's debate team: <a href="http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_1983.aspx%5B/url%5D">http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_1983.aspx</a></p>
<p>Milton Academy has the no. 1 Speech team in the country, and has for 9 of the past 10 years.</p>
<p>Andover's is the oldest and best endowed of all debate programs in New England.</p>
<p>We have a decent debate program... I mean, it could be worse, could be better. It varies year to year, or maybe over longer periods than that. It can be a little cyclical based upon leadership and participation. It's quite lively, though. We have a great advisor and debate coach who really add to the program. </p>
<p>If you have no debate experience, I don't know why you should be worrying so much about which team is "best" since you should be thinking about you.... what good does prestige do you? If you were on a superstar team, you might be shoved to the back... who knows.</p>
<p>I CAN say that this past year, we went to virtually every single DANEIS debate (the league all these schools are in). So you will have a lot of opportunity to debate. As a novice especially, you will be given a lot of opportunity to participate, if only for the fact that you need to have two novice teams for every one advanced team... : )</p>
<p>"Milton Academy has the no. 1 Speech team in the country, and has for 9 of the past 10 years."</p>
<p>not at all unless they compete only with boarding schools and dosn't compete with the "rest" of the nation</p>
<p>but anyway debate is what matters and policy debate is where it's at ;-) and too my knowledge no boarding schools compete in policy debate (probably only LD debate) and if they do no one competes successfully on the national circuit.</p>
<p>We all compete in DANEIS which is primarily Parliamentary and Oregon. And also the recruiting hot-spot for the Ivy League...</p>
<p><a href="http://www.daneis.org%5B/url%5D">www.daneis.org</a></p>