Posted on 03/13/2012 11:56:34 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 6-year-old U.S. girl will become the youngest contestant ever in the Scripps National Spelling Bee after winning a regional competition in Virginia.
Lori Anne Madison, of Woodbridge, Virginia, won the Prince William County spelling contest earlier this month, beating out 21 top elementary and middle school competitors. Her winning word: "vaquero," a word of Spanish origin meaning cowboy.
"My parents quiz me. I read lists and I have a really good memory," Madison, who is home-schooled, told Fox's WTTG-TV, a Washington-area station.
Madison was believed to be the youngest competitor ever, the Cincinnati-based National Spelling Bee said on Tuesday. Based on incomplete records, the previous youngest contestant was 8, it said.
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“But at 18 months, she knows her ABC’s, colors, shapes, can count to 10, and says more than 200 words and phrases.
Yeah, but I bet she can’t solve differential equations like my 18 month-old can. ;)”
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At 53, I can find my ass with both hands.
I understand she’s only 6, but she won her State competition spelling “vaquero”? A couple of years ago S. Carolina sent a State champion who could spell “cavalry”. I wasn’t impressed by either one! My niece won last week the SC Independent School Association State competition by spelling “pfeffernusse”. Oh well, that’s the difference between public and private schools!
I think you missed the part that said the 6 yr. old was home schooled..........
Not a product of the government schools? I suppose there wasn’t enough time for spelling lessons between the global warming films and sex ed.
Home schooling BUMP.
I'd be interested in any links, articles, studies....
Thanks-
I sure did! And you missed the part that it was middle school level, same level my niece won.
It's a curse...
I have an 18 year old that started out this way. We knew we were in trouble when at 14 months he pointed to some letter blocks and said “No” (the word he heard most often;-) and of course that is what the blocks spelled. School was pretty easy for him, though he wasn’t winning spelling B’s at age 6! He is a great young man who is in his first year at college (University of Oklahoma) where he got a National Merit Scholarship.
I’m proud as can be of him, as I know you are of your grandchild. They can be a handful as they are growing - but they will often come out of left field with ideas that you never even considered. It’ll help keep you young!
yes, but does she know Homosexual History and how to use a condom?? /s
The bright kids have enough social skills to realize the pop culture is nothing but dog poop and thus ignore the sheeple.
‘Vaquero’...that’s my girl!
Love it! :-)
“Impressive. Most kids at age 6 have just learned their abc’s.”
...and most parents let the public education system determine the learning schedule for their kids.
However, some of us don’t (hi W-time). Some of us know that kids can learn MUCH, MUCH, earlier than the schedule that they are given by the NEA. And, in fact, it’s actually EASY to make just about any normal kid look like a genius, simply by ignoring the NEA’s schedule and pushing junior a bit harder (i.e., taking control of junior’s early education).
One of the few good things to come out of the disaster that is American Education is the opportunity for just about any parent and any kid to look like a genius, simply because the ‘mainstream’ kids are years behind where they used to be and where most of the world is now. In other words, take an American ‘genius’ that is several years ahead of his grade level in math and reading, put him in Singapore or Russia, or China, and he will be lucky if he is even an ‘average’ kid there.
I saw that interview this morning with this girl. It was really quite amazing. She had exceptional poise and confidence in front of the camera. There are teenagers (and adults, I’m sorry to say) that don’t have her vocabulary and command of the language. For a six year old, it’s really something.
A very remarkable little lady. She’s going to be somebody important some day.
She is cute as a button.
Yeah, I have to say, Niles (Frasier’s brother) is my favorite character.
How ironic that one of the newscasters at the end of the video seemed to confuse “etymology” with “entomology”. Is he not smarther than a six-year-old?
Maher said home schooled are ignorant?
Home schooled...really?
I thought they were in a madrass, being inculcated with evangelical, extremist, right-wing, radical ideology...
(do I really need to put a /s on this?)
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