A video shot by students at Olympia High School that appears to show classmates struggling to answer basic trivia questions received national attention this week when it was shared on sites such as The Huffington Post.
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Austin Oberbillig (left) and Evan Ricks, both juniors at Olympia High School, created a video that featured fellow students failing to answer basic trivia questions. The video was picked up by The Huffington Post and used as a device to point to a failing education system, which the boys said was not their intent in producing the video.
A video shot by students at Olympia High School that appears to show classmates struggling to answer basic trivia questions received national attention this week when it was shared on sites such as The Huffington Post.
However, the two 16-year-old journalism students who created the video said Friday they were only trying to make their classmates laugh and that things changed once the video was posted online.
Read more: http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/olympia-students-say-viral-video-isnt-what-huffing/nHTFJ/
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