Tournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: CastilloGeorges Davita Wrone | Judge: Isabella Nadel
Casey 20 Leo Casey, 12-2-2020, "The Teacher Strike: Conditions for Success," Dissent Magazine, https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online'articles/the-teacher-strike-conditions-for-success
The most essential organizational task is winning and keeping the allegiance of teachers to the
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points, it will become difficult to mount or sustain a successful strike.
That causes teachers uproot and quitting through unsatisfaction
Carpenter 21 Jennifer Carpenter., 05-17-21, "Opinion: Protect local control for schools," Burlington Free Press, https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/opinion/my-turn/2017/05/17/opinion-protect-local-control-schools/101726614/
The most crucial part of the proposal put forward by House Speaker Mitzi Johnson and
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impact on programs and teachers, would have devastating consequences on local communities.
Boyce 19 Paul Boyce, 9-17-2019, "The Teacher Shortage Is Real and about to Get Much Worse. Here's Why," No Publication, https://fee.org/articles/the-teacher-shortage-is-real-and-about-to-get-much-worse-heres-why/
Teacher Shortage According to research by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the teacher
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more of the difference in educational gains than race and parent education combined.
Kwauk et al 3/26’ ~Christina Kwauk and Rebecca Winthrop, 3-26-2021, "Unleashing the creativity of teachers and students to combat climate change: An opportunity for global leadership," Brookings, https://www.brookings.edu/research/unleashing-the-creativity-of-teachers-and-students-to-combat-climate-change-an-opportunity-for-global-leadership/~~
Recent research shows that if only 16 percent of high school students in high-
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, charting new paths forward for what life can and should be like.
Specktor 19 ~Brandon writes about the science of everyday life for Live Science, and previously for Reader's Digest magazine, where he served as an editor for five years~ 6-4-2019, "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims," livescience, https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html Justin
The current climate crisis, they say, is larger and more complex than any
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and perhaps "the end of human global civilization as we know it."
House 3/22’ ~Freedom House, 3-22-2021, "NEW REPORT: US Democracy Has Declined Significantly in the Past Decade, Reforms Urgently Needed," https://freedomhouse.org/article/new-report-us-democracy-has-declined-significantly-past-decade-reforms-urgently-needed~~
Today, Freedom House released a special report, From Crisis to Reform: A
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inferiority and as a sort of license for their own abuses of power."
Khalenberg 16 Kahlenberg, — Richard D. "How Defunding Public Sector Unions Will Diminish Our Democracy." The Century Foundation, 5 Oct. 2016, tcf.org/content/report/how-defunding-public-sector-unions-will-diminish-our-democracy/?session=1. ~Richard D. Kahlenberg is director of K–12 equity and senior fellow at The Century Foundation. The author or editor of seventeen books, he has expertise in education, civil rights, and equal opportunity. Kahlenberg has been called "the intellectual father of the economic integration movement" in K–12 schooling and "arguably the nation’s chief proponent of class-based affirmative action in higher education admissions." He is also an authority on teachers’ unions, private school vouchers, charter schools, community colleges, housing segregation, and labor organizing.~dhsNJ
Check government power
Unions increase middle class which prevents wealthy from controlling politicians
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democracy in action, underlining the lessons found in the civics books."45
US democracy is the greatest international stabilizer and is key to democracy globally
Kelly Magsamen et. al. 18, Max Bergmann, Michael Fuchs, and Trevor Sutton, 9-5-2018, "Securing a Democratic World," Center for American Progress, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/reports/2018/09/05/457451/securing-democratic-world/
Policy recommendations Revitalizing global democracy is an immense and complex task that will take many
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that the United States can drive globally in the context of rising competition.
Yulis 17 (Max Yulis, Penn Political Review. In Defense of Liberal Internationalism. April 8, 2017. pennpoliticalreview.org/2017/04/in-defense-of-liberal-internationalism/)
Over the past decade, international headlines have been bombarded with stories about the unraveling
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lived trend, or a more ominous warning for the world at large.
Shanker 73’ ~SHANKER, ALBERT L. "Why Teachers Need the Right to Strike." Monthly Labor Review, vol. 96, no. 9, 1973, pp. 48–51. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41839103. Accessed 21 June 2021.~
INSTEAD of talking about alternatives to strikes, we ought to be talking about trying
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legislatures have found it possible to create mecha-nisms for collective bargaining.
NLRB 85 ~National Labor Relations Board; "Legislative History of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947: Volume 1," Jan 1985; https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=7o1tA''v4xwCandrdid=book-7o1tA''v4xwCandrdot=1~~ Justin
Edited for gendered language
As for the so-called absolute or unconditional
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health and welfare of our people in order to attain a selfish end.
DiSalvo, Daniel, and Michael Hartney. "Teachers Unions in the Post-Janus World." Education Next, 2 Sept. 2020, www.educationnext.org/teachers-unions-post-janus-world-defying-predictions-still-hold-major-clout/~ Daniel Disalvo
Professor and Chair of Political Science at the City College of New York Michael Hartney
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donate blood plasma to pay the bills. I’m a teacher in America!"
The standard is maximizing expected well being. To clarify, hedonistic act util. Prefer –
1~ Only pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable – all other frameworks collapse.
Moen 16 ~Ole Martin Moen, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo "An Argument for Hedonism" Journal of Value Inquiry (Springer), 50 (2) 2016: 267–281~
Let us start by observing, empirically, that a widely shared judgment about intrinsic
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places where we reach the end of the line in matters of value.
2~ Death is bad and outweighs – a~ agents can’t act if they fear for their bodily security which constrains every ethical theory, b~ it destroys the subject itself – kills any ability to achieve value in ethics since life is a prerequisite which means it’s a side constraint since we can’t reach the end goal of ethics without life
3~ Weighability – only consequentialism can explain the ethical difference in breaking a promise to take someone to the hospital and breaking a promise to take someone to lunch – that outweighs –
B~ Intuitions – they’re a necessary side constraint on all ethics – if a very well justified, logical theory concluded "rape good" you wouldn’t say "huh I guess rape is good" you would abandon it
Enoch 07 Enoch, D ~The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew Unviersity, Mount Scopus Campus, Jersusalem~. (2007). INTENDING, FORESEEING, AND THE STATE. Legal Theory, 13(02). doi:10.1017/s1352325207070048 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-theory/article/intending-foreseeing-and-the-state/76B18896B94D5490ED0512D8E8DC54B2
The general difficulty of the intending-foreseeing distinction here stemmed, you will recall
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against the intending-foreseeing distinction when applied to state action than elsewhere.
A~ Empirically denied—both individuals and policymakers carry out effective cost-benefit analysis which means even if decisions aren’t always perfect it’s still better than not acting at all
B~ Theory—they’re functionally NIBs that everyone knows are silly but skew the aff and move the debate away from the topic and actual philosophical debate, killing valuable education
MacAskill 14 ~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~
The human race might go extinct from a number of causes: asteroids, supervolcanoes
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with the benefit of keeping one’s options open while one gains new information.
~1~ 1AR theory is legit – anything else means infinite abuse – drop the debater, competing interps, no rvis and the highest layer of the round – 1AR is too short to make up for the time trade-off – no RVIs or 2NR theory and paradigm issues– 6 min 2NR means they can brute force me every time