Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with an AM post from somewhere else in California. We're in this Golden State together. Right?
In case you missed it, over the weekend, Granada Hills Charter High School won the Annual California Academic Decathlon Competition - again.
Granada Hills will represent California next month at the national decathlon in Albuquerque. You can bet the other states are quaking in their boots. California has won the last nine national titles.
You just have to look at the state finalists to realize to what extent the Los Angeles Unified School District dominates this event. The LA Times notes LA Unified schools claimed five of the top 10 spots Sunday in Sacramento, out of 65 teams. El Camino Real came in second, and Marshall (profiled by the California Report Friday) took third.
Hearing those Marshall kids on Friday, memories flooded back for me of the late 1980s, when my sisters competed for Marshall in Mock Trial. They also competed at the national level, and it was everything you think it would be: insanely hard work, a blast, and yes, a major point of pride for a public school beleaguered on so many other fronts.