There will be no school for Garden City High School on Friday, January 17, 2025. The school will serve as the host site for the Kansas State High School Activities Association Classes 5A and 6A state debate tournament and will need the entire facility for the competition. All other schools in the district will be in session on Friday. Classes will resume on Monday, January 20, 2025.
This is the fourth time that the school has hosted the competition. The school last hosted the event in 2019. The school also held the event in 2009 and 1999.
More than 300 debate students will be competing over the course of two days at the school, with champions to be crowned in both 2- and 4-speaker divisions in both classifications.