Debate Topics for Kids

Debate Topics for Kids

Is your kid in middle or high school and needs debate topics? The article provides you with interesting, persuasive debate topics for kids in middle and high school.

Interesting Topics for Debate

•Is it alright to purchase any items you want with your allowance or own money?
•Can kids go anywhere they wished with their friends?
•Should kids be allowed to watch a PG-13 or R-rated movies?
•Are kids expected to perform chores around the house?
•Do you consider privacy to be a privilege or right?
•Are social networking sites harmful?
•What is the permissible age for tattoos and piercings?
•Should the school change the hours from morning to 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.?
•What's the importance of the Olympics?
•It's 2010, is the world going to end in 2012?
•Is it acceptable for society to put someone to death?
•Should they increase or decrease the age for voting, smoking, and/or drinking?
•Which is better, television or books?
•Will computers replace teachers?
•What's the meaning of beauty? Is it only skin deep?
•Should junk food be banned from schools?
•Is peer pressure beneficial or harmful?
•Are video games good for you?
•Can exes still be best friends?
•Is public humiliation an acceptable punishment for criminals?
•Is marriage an outdated concept? Is co-habitation the new replacement for marriage?
•Public school vs Private school

Persuasive Topics for Debate

•Are we losing the fight against terror?
•God: myth or reality?
•Can parents be punished for their kids' mistakes?
•Should the death penalty be banned across the world?
•Are beauty pageants more harmful than beneficial?
•Should George W. Bush be re-elected as President?
•Are vampires real?
•Is rap music a means to express one's individuality?
•Was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima justified?
•Should there be any zoos in the world?
•Has Walt Disney done better for mankind than William Shakespeare ever did?
•Are there aliens? Are we really alone?
•Does beauty or brains get you ahead in life?
•Are school uniforms good or bad idea?
•Do we need better role models for our generation?
•Should we stop space exploration?
•Are oil and coal bigger threats than a country having nuclear weapons?
•Is there life after death?
•Should animal testing be legal or illegal?
•Is protesting a justified behavior to break the law?