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Old 03-14-2012, 10:19 AM
 
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A-M-A-Z-I-N-G: Girl, 6, becomes youngest eligible for Scripps Spelling Bee – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs

While it's great news that she knows how to spell all those words, I don't see the point. In a few years, she's going to be texting words like "cud", "shud", "mebbe", "b4", "omg" and so on, thus effectively wiping out all that she's learned to spell so far!
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Old 03-14-2012, 10:35 AM
 
Location: Virginia
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I can't get the link to work for some reason. Dd the article say if she went to public school? If so, what a compliment to the PW school system.
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Old 03-14-2012, 10:50 AM
 
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she is home schooled, and correctly spelled a word not in Webster's: vaquero.
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Old 03-14-2012, 11:48 AM
 
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Well that was a strange article. I didn't realize that spelling bees for young children gave out non-English words. Not that it's a big deal but it just never occurred to me.

Also, it was a word that had tripped her up before and they had "practiced" it. I mean, VAQUERO??? How would you know to practice such a thing?
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Old 03-14-2012, 01:30 PM
 
Location: Brambleton, VA
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My three-year-olds know the word (although they wouldn't be able to spell it); it's used at least twice in "Toy Story 3" when Buzz Lightyear is switched into Spanish mode, and refers to Woody as "el vaquero".
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Old 03-14-2012, 01:50 PM
 
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Well, that explains it then.
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Old 03-14-2012, 03:28 PM
 
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Also, it was a word that had tripped her up before and they had "practiced" it. I mean, VAQUERO??? How would you know to practice such a thing?
I'd always wondered, when watching spelling bee documentaries like Spellbound (see it if you haven't), why kids and parents talk about how they "practiced" certain words. It turns out that the kids have a list or book of words they are given in advance that will be asked during the spelling bee. Apparently, they go to "off the list" words only at some spelling bees, and only at the very end to break a long back-and-forth tie.

Not to take anything away from the kids' obsessive compulsive spelling prowess, but when on the news, some kid has spelled "euonym" for the win, the anchors inevitably gush about how they are amazed the kid had any idea what that word was. How about the fact that it was on a list of words they had to study? ... geez, it sounds like I'm belittling the kid when I mean to belittle the news anchors, but hopefully you guys get what I'm saying.

Also, as soon as I saw the topic, I thought "home schooled." Bingo.
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Old 03-14-2012, 04:15 PM
 
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I'd always wondered, when watching spelling bee documentaries like Spellbound (see it if you haven't), why kids and parents talk about how they "practiced" certain words. It turns out that the kids have a list or book of words they are given in advance that will be asked during the spelling bee. Apparently, they go to "off the list" words only at some spelling bees, and only at the very end to break a long back-and-forth tie.

Not to take anything away from the kids' obsessive compulsive spelling prowess, but when on the news, some kid has spelled "euonym" for the win, the anchors inevitably gush about how they are amazed the kid had any idea what that word was. How about the fact that it was on a list of words they had to study? ... geez, it sounds like I'm belittling the kid when I mean to belittle the news anchors, but hopefully you guys get what I'm saying.

Also, as soon as I saw the topic, I thought "home schooled." Bingo.

I get you. I did not know this. It totally ruins Spelling Bees for me. I think that is nuts--giving them a booklet of words they might be called on to spell to study ahead of time. That's not spelling prowess, that's memorization and recall.
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Old 03-14-2012, 04:46 PM
 
Location: Jackson, WY
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Lori Anne was interviewed on national television, here is the video:

6-year-old spelling champ heading to national contest - Fox News Video - Fox News
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