[b]CHILDREN OF LITERATE PARENTS PERFORM BETTER IN SCHOOL THAN OF ILLITERATE PARENTS[/b].
Chairman, Panel of Judges, Co-debaters, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am here to speak in support of the motion "Children of literate parents perform better in school than those of illiterate parents". When we say that children of literate parents perform better in school, what this means is that they do well academically than those of illiterate parents. Of course, children from literate homes perform better in their school work than those from illiterate homes. Intelligence is innate and it is often inherited or passed down from parents to children. A literate parent passes down intelligent quotient to his or her child. Definitely, literate parents have the tendency of having children with high intelligent quotient. The reverse is the case with illiterate parents who are not likely to produce children with high intelligent quotient going by simple biological law of genes transfer.
Secondly, literate parents are more concerned and passionate about education. They are the ones that are always ready to send their children to school and back it up with all necessary academic equipment like books and educative software even with Internet facilities in their homes, all to make their children perform well in school. They often employ lesson teachers to give extra lesson to their children at home after school. Tell me why children from such homes won't perform better than those from illiterate homes? Illiterate parents are mostly not passionate about education. All they know is that their children are attending schools and they stop at that. Their children are not supported at home with lesson teachers, and educative facilities like the Internet. Some of them don't even bother about the progress of their children unlike literate parents who, apart from supporting their children, find time to sit down with their children to ascertain their progress in school. When their children have problem on their assignments or need some explanations, literate parents can offer assistance even when the lesson teacher is not around. An illiterate parent cannot offer such assistance because he or she is not educated.
Moreover, children from literate homes usually have examples of educated predecessors to follow and emulate. Their parents are educated and so they cannot afford not to do well in school so that they can equal or even surpass their parents' academic achievements. Children from illiterate homes, on the other hand, have no such opportunity. They often think highly of themselves because they are presumed to have been better educated than their illiterate parents. This is further worsened by the fact that their illiterate parents always think highly of them and so tolerate their excesses. A child from an illiterate home can easily deceive his or her illiterate parents about his or her academic performance because the parents could not read and write. This is unthinkable in literate homes where the parents can analyse academic results and know whether their children are doing well in school or not.
Chairman, Panel of Judges, Ladies and Gentlemen, you will all agree with me that a child performs better in school when he or she can be appropriately monitored and supported with academic facilities both in school and at home and when such child comes from a literate home where he or she has somebody with a greater education qualifications to emulate and even surpass.
I hope that I have been able to convince you with my well-articulated points that children of literate Parents perform better in school those of illiterate parents.