Turns out, teaching kids to argue better can change everything. This middle school was on the verge of closing until one principal tried something different: teach every student how to debate. Not the yelling-across-a-table kind, but the kind that makes you slow down, think, and actually listen. Soon, every class became a place to make a case—whether it was explaining a math problem or defending a line in a poem. And it worked. Scores went up, confidence grew, and students started showing up wit