Home schooler -- who else? -- wins spelling bee

[DesertFox]

The winner of the spelling bee sounded as if he'd rather be at a math Olympiad. Thirteen-year-old Evan O'Dorney of Danville, Calif., breezed through the Scripps National Spelling Bee with barely a hitch Thursday night, taking the title, the trophy and the prizes in a competition that he confessed really wasn't his favorite.

The home-schooled eighth-grader easily aced "serrefine" — a noun describing small forceps — to become the last youngster standing at the 80th annual bee. He triumphed after a tense duel with Nate Gartke of Spruce Grove, Alberta, who was trying to become the first Canadian to win.

Read more about this kid by clicking on this here dot right here: . (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_re_us/spelling_bee;_ylt=AqFPxyMDVOBjDM7cyH.v8B6s0NUE)

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

I checked the stats -- five out of the 15 top spellers were homeschoolers! :thumb:

It's such a shame they are not well socialized and therefore will end up as unsuccess stories, :smirky:

[DesertFox]

When you figure that home schooled kids comprise prolly less than one percent of the school-age population, that 33% looms almost unbelievable -- except to those of us who know what's going on.