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Power Rankings

March 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment

DKC is proud to release our third set of Power Rankings for the 2010-2011 season. The current totals are based on all tournaments held to date. In policy debate the teams are ranked based on total number of wins with speaker points breaking ties. In student congress places are determined by combined point totals from [...]

Below is a video put together by the Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy debate team. They were the 2011 middle school winners of the DKC City Championships sponsored by the Kansas Metropolitan Bar Association. Edit: It appears the songs selected to play in the background have been disabled for copyright reasons. If you would like music playing here [...]

February 26th – On a slick, cold Saturday morning over 100 students along with coaches, parents and volunteers braved the conditions for the 12th annual DKC City Championship generously sponsored by the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association‘s (KCMBA) Young Lawyers Section. Those who competed represented the most diligent and talented debaters DKC has to offer, making it [...]

The second semester of the DKC tournament season opened at Argentine Middle School on a beautifully warm February day with 13 schools competing from across the region. Winter weather that had canceled the first two meets of the semester, so the students were anxious to be back in the swing of things. In middle school [...]