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by Greg Krehbiel on 22 March 2005
Schools Change Rules to Exclude Home-Schoolers From Spelling Bee
2005-03-22 » Greg Krehbiel
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22 March 2005 @ 1:06 pm
The problem was that they changed the rules without telling anyone.
I’ll boast here and say my son made it to the regional Scripps-Howard. He won the county homeschoolers’ bee and competed against other county’s homeschoolers, private schoolers, and public schoolers, and did really well (but couldn’t touch the girl who won — a public schooler). The rules were very clear from the get-go that there were different groups competing. And our homeschool group has to be inclusive of all homeschoolers in the county; that is, the Baptist homeschoolers can’t keep the competition a secret from the secular homeschoolers.
The family that sat behind us at the competition had a son who should have been in the competition. He competed and won at his local middle school but his teacher and principal were clueless about how to enter him in the regional bee. They could never get the proper information in time for him to compete. I don’t think it’s fair to say that this was a plot against homeschoolers. I think it’s just notoriously bumbling public schoolers messing it up for a lot of kids.