[gobucks]

School Type:
192 public (67.13%)
38 private (13.29%)
36 home (12.59%)
14 parochial (4.9%)
5 charter (1.75%)
1 virtual (.34%)
Of last year’s 274 spellers, 195 were public-schooled, 37 were home-schooled, 26 were private-schooled, 13 were parochial-schooled, and 3 were charter-schooled.

Hmmmm....about 1 out of 10 of the these kids who made it to the bee were homeshcooled.

Now of the 15 finalists, 5 were home schooled...

Wow.

[incredulous joe]

I understand that there are some universities that stagger their admissions to account for the disparities between the various classification of students.

You probably won’t be surprised to hear that they are staggered to actually make it more difficult for home schoolers to attend those universities.

[RFEngineer]

“Now of the 15 finalists, 5 were home schooled...”

congratulations to the kid.....however, one must put some reasonableness into the conclusions. A homeschooled kid can more easily devote his/her full time to studying spelling, and the top finishers probably did just that.

Other kids, depending on education mode, likely didn’t have as much time to devote to it, so statistics on the spelling bee probably skew towards homeschoolers.

This is a statistics observation, not a statement for or against any particular form of education.