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My son participated in his first local National History Day competition.  It turns out that his performance team will be progressing to the city competition. I had told them that they need to set realistic goals for city. After all, this will be their first time and they’ll be going up against teams that have been doing this since seventh grade.  Furthermore, I was expecting every high school in the city to be sending two teams so the odds really didn’t look to good.

I just found out from the coordinator that only eight teams entered in the senior performance category last year. GreatSchools lists over 130 high schools for San Antonio. Of course, a good many of these are small private schools, specialty charter schools, or some sort of other limited focus school. But still, you would think there would be more than eight entries. I guess I was expecting something around 30. Needless to say, eight was a shock.

Maybe they have a lot more in the other categories. I hope so. I figured that every student in a history class would have to enter the school history fair–I had to in my history classes in high school. Are they not requiring them to enter anymore and if so, why?

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