[luckymom]

Congratulations to your son for making it to the national level. That is an awesome feat! I thought the movie was "based on a true story", maybe it was very loosely based, hmmm?

[politicket]

I thought the movie was "based on a true story", maybe it was very loosely based, hmmm?

The only part of the movie that had a shred of truth to it is that they used a number of actual spellers from past bees in the movie.

The only black children that I saw at last year's bee were GREAT kids and very well supported by their parents. i remember one black child in particular who had a father that literally stood in the back of the room and quietly prayed for his son during the entire written portion of the bee. You have to have a ton of parental support to make it to that level of competition.