MBMS scholars outsmart the parents

Are the Scholar Quiz preparers smarter than the 8th graders?
History teacher Jed Rucker reads a Quiz question.
“Zero degrees Celsius is….”
Eighth grader Alec Lautanen raises his flag. “F-A-H-R-E-N-H-E-I-T.”
The crowd erupts into laughter.
The organizers of the Manhattan Beach Middle School Scholar Quiz have this problem every year—how to outsmart the middle schoolers. Because, by the end of [...]