[reaganaut1]

Not all groups are equally good at or equally interested in various activities, whether it's spelling, science, or basketball, so there will be "inequalities" and "disparities" in a free society.

[theDentist]

a last name that's a spelling challenge unto itself.

How is 'Chand' a spelling challenge?

[ModelBreaker]

Wow. A NYT article on successful homeschoolers without a single suggestion that the parents beat their children if they don’t spell well and lock them in cages overnight. What is the world coming to?

[Ancient Drive]

yup. just look at Basketball and NASCAR

[blam]

"Those who follow the bee see the Indian-neurosurgeon quirk as less of a coincidence. In the same way that Hakeem Olajuwon's success in the NBA inspired a generation of Nigerians to take up basketball, Sidharth, Sameer and Kavya can trace their roots to Balu Natarajan of Chicago, who in 1985 became the first Indian-American national bee champion."

Did he become a neurosurgeon?

[Earthdweller]

"Not all groups are equally good at or equally interested in various activities, whether it's spelling, science, or basketball, so there will be "inequalities" and "disparities" in a free society. "

Not anymore. Someone is trying to "level the playing field" on the public College campuses by killing American men in the east and midwest.

One of the last young men they murdered was a straight A student from a working class family who worked his butt off in High school and college to get a better life for himself and was not part of the PC crowd.

It's terrorism. The message is, don't go to College if you are a male who doesn't play "the right political game".

Yes...this is what America is coming to.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Considering all the Indians (from India) I have known, I would be glad to have an Indian as a surgeon.
(Indians don’t get and don’t need “affirmative action”)

[shibumi]

"spellers are a tight-knit community, keeping tabs on each other through e-mails and instant messages throughout the year "

I wonder if they run their e-mails through the chelspecker.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Indians (from India) instill in their children the values of hard work and excellence. They get after their children to do their homework, to study, to ask questions about things that they don’t understand, and to do extra work.
Thus Indians (from India) do much better than most Americans.
This should be a lesson to specially-privileged minority groups that are always whining and moaning about not getting ahead, while they encourage their children to loaf, not study, not excel, and to whine about being victims.