{"id":2705,"date":"2022-11-04T15:44:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2022-11-04T15:44:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:44:23","slug":"quiz-bowl-more-than-just-an-academic-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2705","title":{"rendered":"Quiz Bowl: More than just an academic challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/QuizBowlLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/QuizBowlLogo-1024x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/QuizBowlLogo-1024x230.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/QuizBowlLogo-300x67.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/QuizBowlLogo-768x173.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/QuizBowlLogo-500x112.jpg 500w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/QuizBowlLogo.jpg 1489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oregon City Schools Quiz Bowl graphic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just wrote a two-part newspaper series on high school <strong>Quiz Bowl<\/strong>.  One of the local faculty advisors here said, yes, part of it is about academic preparedness.  But he also said the <strong>&#8216;genius&#8217; <\/strong>of it is that football players, cheerleaders, and students who aren&#8217;t either, sit side by side on the team, and can&#8217;t help but develop some bonds.  They are students, he said, &#8220;&#8230;who wouldn&#8217;t normally mix socially.&#8221;  This is, systemically, a big part of changing the culture in high schools that will lead to, number one, more camaraderie between diverse students.  <strong>And two, this will, inevitably, cut down on violence\/shootings in the schools.<\/strong>  And during our travels, I researched a program at Ohio&#8217;s <strong>Wilmington College<\/strong> where moderators facilitate weekend encounter groups at local high schools, mixing various clique groups.  (Think the movie <em><strong>Breakfast Club<\/strong><\/em>, without the detention.)  I have plugged in more information about this in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/education-c1h9h\">position paper proposing a &#8220;U.S. Department of Peace.&#8221; (See Section 15, Trust and Resolution)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon City Schools Quiz Bowl graphic I just wrote a two-part newspaper series on high school Quiz Bowl. One of the local faculty advisors here said, yes, part of it is about academic preparedness. But he also said the &#8216;genius&#8217; <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2705\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}