Here are a couple of reviews I received by email:
"I want to congratulate your young team on running the debate most competently. The moderator did an excellent job and the questions were intelligently stated and relevant."
"Your class and school did a magnificent job today. The debate was impeccably run. The questions were very well written, selected and posed - there was no "edge" to any of them, and in just an hour, they covered the range of issues our nation faces very well. You created a format and staging (eg standing with no podiums) that fostered a very effective "head-to-head" debate. The differences between the candidates were surfaced quite clearly. Thank you! That was a great public service. Political debates often are tame, or get side-tracked - this was one of the most effective I have ever seen, anywhere. Well done, Monomoy High!"
We also made the front page of the Cape Cod Times. A quote: "U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-Mass., and Republican congressional nominee John Chapman took off the kid gloves Wednesday during a debate at Monomoy Regional High School, trading blows in a spirited face-to-face that occasionally required the teenage moderator to remind them to heed time limits and not interrupt one another....As the students turned to one another and grinned, taking in the blood sport of politics..."
You can watch the debate here.
