Fifth-grader spells her way to victory in regional spelling bee
read more recent story comments Reader comments| Sunny Sunday, February 20, 2011: 10:07 am More from Sunny  | Hey Liberty, She learned how to spell that well in a Public School!!! I would go as far to say that her parents are more then likely involved in her education. That is the key to a child's education (Parental Involvement). Just being cynical Liberty, no need for a response pal. |
| Owl Sunday, February 20, 2011: 10:11 am More from Owl | Wow...and she even defeated area students that were home schooled!!!! I forgot to add that. |
| Owl Sunday, February 20, 2011: 10:14 am More from Owl | You....wow.... Perhaps I should learn how to spell. |
| KennyD Sunday, February 20, 2011: 10:21 am More from KennyD | I wish it would announce the number of "home schooled students" and public schooled students. |
| Liberty Sunday, February 20, 2011: 12:28 pm More from Liberty | Hey Sonny, I think this girl can spell. I agree, she must have some good parents and memory skills better than most. Since spelling isn't something taught but learned through the use of linguistical construction principles, I guess you are saying she achieved this in spite of the gec ? I agree, think it's awesome for parents to help their children learn. This kind of skill is special and most of us, starting with me wouldn't last one round. Kenny, Since only 10% of the children are homeschooled my guess would be about 10% or less of the participants were being homeschooled. I have a grandson with this skill. I use him as my spell checker when he's here. Everyone knows when he's not. . Good job Star. Now can anyone spell "potatoe" ? |
| Liberty Sunday, February 20, 2011: 1:33 pm More from Liberty | Just a point. I would hate to see an arrogant self-absorbed GEC teacher rob this young girl of her hard work and her many hours of study and accomplishments. I suspect some will try to hijack her accomplishment by taking credit for her success themselves. That would be disappointing. Keep something in perspective. Children learn. Not because teachers teach. If there were no teachers children would still learn. For those who are envious of home-school families(apparent by their slights)and make competitive pokes remember this. Since the average size of a home-school group is 20 - 30 children, under the GEC systems that ranks schools by the size of their talent pool and places them into their little classes then a home school participant in this competition would be in the "sub class A" and competing against 5A schools. So when you hear about homeschoolers winning these kind of competitive contest you are better off giving the credit solely to the individual child and not bringing up the schools involvement. That would be embarrassing to the class 5A teachers to be beat so often by Class A 30 student groups. Kinda of like Class A Milan,In winning the state Class 5A basket ball championship the majority of the time. I think it best to say this is an individual talent and success and leave it at that so nobody will be embarrassed and the child gets their due credit for which they deserve. I guess we will see how many GEC self-absorbed teachers dis-agree by the number of negative votes this post gets. Peace :) |
| nobodyimportant Sunday, February 20, 2011: 2:02 pm More from nobodyimportant | I am curious about what a "home school group" is. Is it a group comprised of several home school families (average is 3 children in a home-schooled family)? Or was the 30 a mis-type Liberty? |
| Liberty Sunday, February 20, 2011: 8:42 pm More from Liberty | Hey Nobody, Their are homeschool groups that meet. Some will coop on subjects and help each other on certain subjects but even if they don't always attend they are more of a support group of parents that encourage each other and also an outlet for the children to fellowship and have some friends etc. Spelling Bees like Scripps say you have to be a school or a homeschool group to enter. That's what I meant. |
| nobodyimportant Sunday, February 20, 2011: 9:18 pm More from nobodyimportant | Liberty, I was aware of those co-op efforts. I was just trying to understand your comparison of "class sizes." I think you mixed oranges and peanut butter. |
| Liberty Sunday, February 20, 2011: 10:04 pm More from Liberty |
Quite the contrary Nobody, They are 100% exactly the same when it comes to what I referenced with the spelling bee. At least too Scripps. The best of your pool. The size of that pool is what determines classes in state sports. I personally think in spelling it's the individual and not the group/school that makes the difference. Period. So regardless if it's a GEC, Private or home-school group the child is the winner. I think this girl is very good at this as her parents would agree. It will be interesting who wins the national. Hates off to The Bloomington Herald-Times and Martinsville Reporter-Times newspapers who sponsored it. Peace :) P.S. I noticed that there are three of those I described that has confessed and vote already.Plenty more out there yet to. |
| nobodyimportant Monday, February 21, 2011: 8:34 am More from nobodyimportant | Liberty, I wasn't trying to take any of the lustre off of the individual achievement. There are events where individuals earn "wins" as well as those events where the teams compete. But when an individual wins, to say that the learning or training environment had nothing to do with it is rather obtuse thinking. I wish for you my brother/sister that you would focus your zeal on the building up of the things you support like home-schooling rather than attack and attempt to discredit, malign, ridicule, and debase a public school system than millions of us can appreciate for how it has helped our parents shape us. |
| Liberty Monday, February 21, 2011: 11:30 am More from Liberty | Hey Nobody, Not sure but I guess my explanation of the class system in schools must have answered your questions and your slighted answer to me was in a frustrated response. I haven't said anything but what is true. I won't lie (like most) just to make some teacher feel good and sustain those thing that damage our children and teach them to sin. Your misplaced blame of "discredit, malign, ridicule, and debase a public school system than millions of us can appreciate for how it has helped our parents shape us. " only illustrates your acceptance of a school system that is discredit, malign, ridicule, and debase a public of a 100 million of us that don't appreciate what the government unions have done to it and how is shaping our community children. All across the nation there are loving parents trying to change it and there are also evil union teachers shutting down schools by calling in sick thus teaching the parent's little children to LIE. And with the union doctors walking through the rioting crowds handing out doctors excuses they are also teaching them more lie, fraud while leaving many on the steps of the schools with signs that say "WHAT ABOUT US" Remember what Jesus says happens to those who causes a child to commit a sin. My zeal is for children and the end of an evil union government exploitation of. Their answer to the drop out rates is to sit in a room and convince little girls they have a right to secretly have an abortion. Humm.. no pregnancy, no reason to quit school....... I'm not going down the list again with you know body because you know all of it and no better than to falsely accuse me of being unjustified in standing up for those that union teachers feel they have ownership control over and exploitation and all the rest is acceptable. The vast majority of the country is now in the process of cleaning up this sick filth. Here is just another of a million examples of why they are now dumping the union damaged NEA teachers out. This quote from the union Gec schooled child (Matt) being trained by a union Gec college ( IUPU Col) to become a union GEC union teacher says it all “Nobody’s going to want to be a teacher if they feel like they’re going to be fired because of the way they’re teaching,” said Matt R. It's not like we are saying we can do better with some improvements in this system and catch up to something. We have already lost. The game is over. The nation and the world has called it's lost. It now has to be torn a part like an old rotten house and a new system designed and put in place and a new one built. The unions that chased all the other jobs out of this country in manufacturing is now doing the same thing by sustaining a ed system that puts us halfway to the bottom in the world of competition and is now causing some other companies to leave or hire foreign schooled employees with a better education. I see it everyday in what I do. Companies who move here and hire americans for their labor but not for their engineering or design. So there is a practical reason the nation is starting to deal with these things. Some people have to stand-up and start protecting our young. Again from a GEC college student who will be a GEC teacher in a couple of years. Listen to how they train them to think. “Nobody’s going to want to be a teacher if they feel like they’re going to be fired because of the way they’re teaching,” . |
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