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Friday, June 04, 2004
From the Associated Press regarding this year's National Spelling Bee:
The field has 265 spellers, the largest ever.
Spellers range in age from 9 to 15; most are 13 or 14. To be eligible, spellers must not have passed beyond eighth grade by Feb. 1 and must not have turned 16 by June 1.
Most spellers attend traditional public schools (179). The rest attend home schools (35), private schools (27), parochial (20) or charter schools (four).
So over 13% of all NSB participants this year are homeschooled. Disproportionate? Glenn Reynolds seems to think so. However, I don't. In fact, I'm surprised there aren't more homeschoolers than that in the competition.
Labels: Archives_2004
.: posted by
Dave
12:21 PM
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