After the coordinators wound down the day with last minute instructions for the rest of the competition, we walked off stage and met up with our alternative team members, who were waiting for us in the audience.
The team surrounded Teddy as members of the other teams pushed toward him. The others were angry about the first round and thought he was a ringer hired by the coach to make the rest of the competitors look like fools. The coach’s belittling of academics had been legendary while we were in school and very evident in today’s competition.
I was shocked to hear people I considered the smartest when I was growing up shout ethnic slurs at Teddy. Living and working in the laid back Monterey area, I felt as if the ground was crumbling under my feet as the losers around me slid into bigo
