That's worse than the NFL - where, despite the evidence, they still get the call wrong.
Poor little girl learning what it’s like to deal with a government that doesn’t give a sh*t about right or wrong.
I want to know who was the einstein judge who mistakenly ruled it misspelled. Must have been another "city official" who will take several days to be identified.
Back in the day, I made it to the finals of the National Spelling Bee. In the school, district, state, and national bee, there was an appeals process where the parents and child could protest and potentially get re-instated for the next round. It happened maybe once per bee, but usually because there was an alternate spelling of a word. These judges just sound like dopes.
And yes, I’m aware it’s a completely useless skill that did nothing for me with the middle-school ladies...
Sounds like she said v-a-c-e-a-t-i-o-n.
Maybe the official (teacher?) who ruled the girl spelled vacation incorrectly is an NFL referee weekends.
The girl just got lesson 1 in learning that the government is right, every time.
Little girl:Could you please use the word in a sentence?
Moderator: Mr and Mrs Obama are constantly taking vacations during one of the worst ecomonic disaster in America’s history.
I was in a spelling bee in the 60’s (5th grade). It came down to me and my cousin. Word after word. Finally the teacher running the bee flipped a coin and I lost. Scarred me for life...
Wow the liberal media still have to use a 26 year old falsehood to start a story??? That's the real wonder of the story.
What a heartless man. What about all the sad dolts that can’t spell their own names? Does he expect them to go through life with low self-esteem because they had no chance at winning the spelling bee? I always say: from those able to spell, to those who can’t. Why can’t we all just get along?
Okay, I just watched the sideways youtube.
She spelled the word incorrectly. There is no ‘e’ in “vacation”.
Maybe they used the same teachers who handed Dan Quayle a set of spelling word cards including one with the incorrect spelling of the word potato. The media at the event knew this, but didn't bother to make it known in their coverage or since.
““I’m stunned because I’m thinking to myself, if I can spell it, she can spell it,” he said. “She’s a better speller than me.”
Obviously this young lady was taught PHONICS by her parents (or at least outside of her ‘school’), which is the reason that she can already spell better than her father.
...same problem I have with my kids. I taught them phonics, and immediately they were better spellers than me, and by Age 10, they were much faster readers. Thank goodness I didn’t trust our schools.
(psst...let’s see if the Whole Language crowd shows up now)
little girl "You'll wish you were on vacation instead of judging this frigging spelling bee when my Daddy sues you."
Ed
She should be congratulated since her parents saddled her with such a crappy spelling of her own first name. No doubt she has to spell THAT for people all the time.
On a related note, I made it into the final three of my eighth grade spelling bee contest. (The winner would move on to the city finals, then state finals etc.). I was given the word “propeller” and for the life of me I couldn’t remember if the final two letters were ER or OR. I went with OR and was told it was incorrect. Not a big deal, but the girl right after me then got the word “bacon”! BACON?!? Are you kidding me? She spelled it correctly and eventually won the bee.
I’m 46 now and as you can tell, it doesn’t bother me a bit!
A lesson about government that it will take at least several days to determine if word spelled correctly.
But it could also have been the way she spoke.......