The school is also low funded and the rate of kids graduating from the school and dropping out is increasing every year. I was one of the few kids that didn’t allow this stigma to control my high school life. I vigorously worked at trying to find articles and essays from creditable resources to help support or negate a topic. This resulted in my debate coach and other UIL academic coaches to view me as a hardworking student and wanted to set me as an example to other members of the UIL club. Nevertheless, the time of the state tournament came and I didn’t make it the finals but I gained something bigger than that. I was a student that made my high school noticed and was praised for being a positive result of a corrupting school. In that same year, I was able to help other students out with an event called Cross Examination by teaching them the skills and resources I learned by myself. As a result, one team qualified for the state tournament hosted by University Interscholastic League. The team didn’t make it to finals but this raised the expectation high for the next season of