Scoring Dispute Casts Pall Over Texas Academic Decathlon
A bitter disagreement over which Texas school would represent the state in the United States Academic Decathlon ended last week with a ruling by the Texas Supreme Court just a day before the national competition began.
Lubbock High School, in Lubbock, and J. Frank Dobie High School in the Houston suburb of Pasadena had locked horns over which school had won the Texas Academic Decathlon and a chance to compete for the national title.
The two schools went head to head after discrepancies were found last month in how the teams' scores were calculated...
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