13-year-old Colorado boy wins spelling bee

MSNBC.com ^ | 5/30/02 | AP

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

WASHINGTON, May 30 —  The winner of the 75th annual Scripps Howard Spelling Bee is a 13-year-old seventh-grader from Mountain Ridge Middle School in Colorado Springs, Colo. He correctly spelled “prospicience” in Thursday’s final round.

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[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What? Not a home-schooler? What is this world coming too?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Runner up was also from a (gasp) public school......! lol

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Runner up was also from a (gasp) public school

Yep. Cool ain't it? I posted this story on another thread inhabited by the home school elitists and, oh boy you should have heard them go on. I guess they don't like it when someone calls them on it. Oh well.

[Terriergal]

yeah... I agree home school is a great idea, but it's not the only idea. And some of the home schoolers are just as goofy as the bad public school teachers, and their kids show it.

[Charles Henrickson]

Any kid who can spell "Pratyush Buddiga" deserves to win.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

That's funny. Thanks for the laugh.