In addition to a dissatisfactory reputation, the school is low funded and the rate of students graduating from the school and dropping out is increasing every year. I was one of the few 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 final round, but I gained something bigger than that. I was a student that made my high school become 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 the University Interscholastic League. The team didn’t make it to the finals round, but this raised the expectation high for the next season of