EDITORIAL SMART KIDS RULE TAFT, FOUR OTHER VALLEY SCHOOLS SHINE IN ACADEMIC DECATHLON.ONCE again, students in San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. high schools produced stunning results in the local Academic Decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. competition, led by Taft High in Woodland Hills. Taft, a two-time national champion, won the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Unified title for the second straight year, compiling com·pile tr.v. com·piled, com·pil·ing, com·piles 1. To gather into a single book. 2. To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources: what appears to be the highest score in the history of the brain power test: 51,516.2 points out of 60,000. Taft and eight other LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) wild-card teams now will move on to the state championships. The group includes four other Valley schools: runners-up El Camino, Granada Hills Charter, North Hollywood and Reseda. Special credit goes to Taft's Dean Schaffer, who had the highest individual score among the competitors and to English teacher Art Berchin, who coached the winning team. All the talk about what's wrong with the LAUSD and the need for greater reforms should not obscure the real achievements that take place in the classrooms and on the campuses. LAUSD schools have won 12 of the 24 national titles, including El Camino's fourth championship last year. |
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