I think goldfish best represents what I was trying to point out earlier. Let go of your personal feeling about schools and just understand that API is not about teachers or schools, they have no magic tricks to teach, they have better students. Not smarter students but kids from more educated parents, so their vocabulary benefits by osmosis and the values instilled are different.

API doesn’t mean the school is better, it means the neigborhood is.

Cardiff, Texas football is an entirely different animal and in no way can my theory be extended to include Texas. It is one of the few places in the world where a town’s identity and pride is directly tied to it’s high school team, more so than professional or college teams. It is also probably the only thing I envy about Texas but I don’t think that phenomena will spread here, it’s a Texas thing.