I recently saw where a home-schooled child was the youngest ever to go to the national spelling bee, surprisingly I saw this reported on the mainstream news,
“I recently saw where a home-schooled child was the youngest ever to go to the national spelling bee,...”
My son won every Spelling Bee he participated in. Then then the District Director of Language Arts (a PHd of course) issued a Memo announcing the termination of the Spelling Bee’s.
Reason #1 The physical stress of the competition is too much for children to withstand.
Reason #2 Spelling is now educationally unsound.
Can’t make it up!