Tournament: Scarsdale | Round: 1 | Opponent: ANY | Judge: ANY
Part 1: Framework

First, The role of the ballot is to act as an educator and advocate for the educational change that comes through speaking within a specific space. The best social change is spurred from the education that students receive because it helps to shape future policies for other generations.
Singer and Pezone No Date {Alan Singer and Michael Pezone, Education for Social Change: From Theory to Practice: Alan Singer is a social studies educator in the Department of Teaching, Literacy and Leadership at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York and the editor of Social Science Docket (a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for Social Studies). He taught at a number of secondary schools in New York City, including Franklin K. Lane High School and Edward R. Murrow High School. He is the author of Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach: A Handbook for Secondary School Teachers (LEA, 2003), Social Studies For Secondary Schools, 3nd Edition (Routledge, 2008), New York and Slavery, Time to Teach the Truth (SUNY, 2008), and Teaching Global History (Routledge, 2011). Michael Pezone- Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management¶ University of California, San Diego¶ Partner Development Manager-Living Goods¶ Technology and Innovation Specialist-FHI 360¶ Strategy Consultant-International Rescue Committee¶ Strategy Consultant-The World Bank¶ Project Manager-The Water Initiative¶ Consultant-GE Energy¶ Business Advisor-Peace Corps- Government Agency¶ Associate Consultant-Celerity Consulting Group, http://louisville.edu/journal/workplace/issue5p2/singerpezone.html}

1.3 The first step in improving education is to recognize that the problems
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gain a personal stake in classroom activities and a deeper understanding of democracy.
1.33 A number of the teachers related to the Hofstra New Teachers Network consider themselves transformative educators, yet none of them, including either of us, has created a model transformative classroom. It may simply be that, although the educational goals discussed above provide a vision of a particular kind of classroom, transformative education, like history, is part of a process that is never finished.

Second, The current framing of debates forces us to focus on Power from above which makes it epistemologically impossible for us to understand the world outside the terms defined by those who exercise power over people.  Not only does this ensure domination, it disempowers us politically by rendering us alienated academic spectators whose purported “neutrality” serves as an alibi for never engaging in solidarity with social movements from below.

El Kilombo Intergalactico 2007 Collective in durham NC that interviewed Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Beyond Resistance: Everything p. 9-10

But how might this alternative take shape? In order to begin to address this
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.” Only now can we understand the full significance of this statement’s challenge.

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The NC is a speech act about my struggle as a member of Islam as a means to solve for my voice through the debate space. I advocate using poetry as a way to access my voice and solve for silence. 

Part 2: Impacts
First, Schools are also a massive part of the society of discrimination towards Muslims because they further oppression in the young minds and set the framework for future silencing.
Jandali 12 (Ameena K. Jandali, director of content for the Islamic Networks Group in San Jose, Calif. “School Administrator” October 2012 Number 9 Volume 69 pg 32-35)

In March 2010, a group called Muslim Mothers Against Violence surveyed 78 Muslim male
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11 America is probably one of the most challenging tasks in human development.”¶ 

Second, The silencing of Muslim voices is still a prevalent quality in today’s society, seen in both political and social standpoints. This societal value that has come to fruition has to be stopped and contested in everyday life because no matter where you go in today’s society Islamophobia follows.
Hasan 2012 {Mehdi Hasan Sunday 8 July 2012, Mehdi Hasan is political editor of the Huffington Post UK and the presenter of al-Jazeera ¬English's The Café. He was a senior editor at the New Statesman and a news and current affairs editor at Channel 4. He is co-author of Ed: the Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/08/muslims-public-life-abuse}

Have you ever been called an Islamist? How about a jihadist or a terrorist
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the Islamophobes win. So, dare I ask: who's with me?

Part 3: Solvency
Telling our truths is necessary to them being heard in the community 

Sayed 13 (Deonna Kelli Sayed, November 6, 2013,Deonna is a writer and multimedia artist http://www.patheos.com/blogs/altmuslim/2013/11/telling-our-own-truths-the-forward-moving-american-muslim-narrative/)

Muslims desire to exist beyond the political narratives that often enslave us to outdated,
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believing that an audience is out there who will connect with your truth.

And, Poetry is a great way to educate students and give them a voice. 

Nichols 14 {01/02/2014 -“Could Poetry Start an Educational Revolution?”- Travis Nichols is a poet, novelist, and environmental activist. He is the author of Iowa, See Me Improving, Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, and The More You Ignore Me. He works for Greenpeace. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-nichols/could-poetry-start-an-edu_b_4531672.html}

Dorothea Lasky is a force of nature. Not only has she published three full
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a general curriculum through poetry right now? Do you think they should?¶ 

And, my methodology is best. Poetry is the best form of performance. Embrace poetry as part of an ambivalence to life itself. It is through poetry and performance that we rationalize ourselves and allow for exposure of us as people because in debate, exposure must be towards another instead of towards oneself for actual representation.
Fernando 10 {writes Jeremy Fernando, The Suicide Bomber and her gift of death, 2010, pg 213 }

The poet, irremediably split between exaltation and vulgarity, between the autonomy that produces
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nothing we can say of her except the fact that she is dead.