Three students from area get National Merit Scholarships [Two are home schoolers]

Kingsport (TN) Times News ^ | May 28, 2014 | Rick Wagner

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Three Northeast Tennessee students, one from Dobyns-Bennett High School and two home-schooled, have received college-sponsored National Merit Scholarships. That puts them among 2,500 students nationwide receiving awards that were scheduled to be announced today.

They are home-schooled students Andrew R. Carver, of Blountville, and Abigail L. Johnson, of Johnson City, and Dobyns-Bennett's Andrew H. Nottingham.

[DeFault User]

These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

That should fund beer and snacks, but not much else.

[don-o]

Thank you, Mr. Sunshine. Sheesh.

[Mrs. Don-o]

MERIT! YAY!

[blam]

Their parents are likely Tea Party terrorists.....so

[don-o]

Guerrilla warriors works for me.

[Pentagon Leatherneck]

Good for them. National Merit scholarships are nothing to sneeze at. I’m not surprised 67% of them escaped the clutches of the local public school system and were home-schooled. Their parents must be proud.

TC