Your teachers hand out notes? Like you don't take notes while the teacher's talking? If you didn't get the notes that were handed out, what did you study...? I think you have to understand your mom's purpose in making that rule (that you can't go to the fair if you do badly) to begin with - she...
If so, how many times have you run a sole contention neg?
I'm trying to decide whether judges would drop me for not having a good enough case on neg. It's more fun to shoot down the affirmative than it is to build my own case lol!