I bet the National Education Association will now demand changes so that the public schoolers have a chance.
“Julie, your word is cat.”
“K-e—sorry, I don’t know the rest.”
“How do you feel about your answer?”
“Great!”
“If you feel good, then we feel good. You get to go to second round!”
I have to confess I take a bit of delight imagining all the conversations in public school teachers lounges tomorrow regarding the unfair outcome of the bee....
My hope is that some of those teachers will be motivated to ask themselves a simple question: why should home schooling have this much of a disproportionate impact, given how small a percentage of total kids they are?