Wow—so they forked over another $350K to them honor them all? I guess with the TV ratings it is the least they could do.
I wonder if that size award leads to some borderline child abuse.
There is a story this week in CT where a reportedly abusive estranged husband/father of five seems to be the prime suspect in the wife/mother’s disappearance (she’d gone to court for a protective order, etc.), and one of the reported stories is how he wanted to make his kids waterskiing champions, so would have them out from 7 am to dusk some days.
Child abuse? Give me a break. You should celebrate academic achievement. These kids performed remarkably under intense pressure. They won on the basis of merit preparing them for the real world. Several of them were interviewed and said they wanted to be doctors. I watched the competition.