With a name like that no wonder he is a good speler.
These are supposed to be English words ???
On a side note, isn't "Buddiga buddiga buddiga" what DW says before each nascar race ? Oh, it's boogity ? Never mind.
Criminy....
Akshay aintedfay ...
I saw that fainting episode on the news last night, and it looked more like a "dive" to me. He didn't so much faint as keel over.
Even in the worst schools, there are enough good teachers and resources that you can get a good education if you make an effort. I don't blame those teachers for their students' stupidity. The vast majority of kids at the grade schools and high schools I went to were from very poor families who didn't speak any English. I dare anyone to try an educate 35 of those kids. Studies have shown that it is kids from poor and/or non-english speaking families who are dragging down all the standardized test scores. Kids who give a damn and try are doing fine. It's just too fashionable to blame public schools when it's the kids and their parents who are the problems. I went to horrible public schools and was able to score a 1460. My high school's average was 880 that same year (and those were the kids who wanted to go to college).
There's a great documentary called Spellbound about the 1999 National Spelling Bee. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0334405/ It follows 8 families as they go to Washington DC for the finals. There are still plenty of people pursuing the American Dream.
The Senior Patrol Leader in our youngest son's Boy Scout troop is named Akshay. He's a very nice young man!
Inspirational. Makes we want to get out my Unabridged and look everything up, so I can use all those words next week.
(State spelling champion of Virginia, 1984)