UNFAIR ADVANTAGE
An HEK won this year’s National Geographic Bee.
After her win, at the center of a swirl of reporters, contestants and parents, Snaring credited her home schooling for giving her the flexibility to prepare for the bee.
“[I] integrated all my subjects with geography,” she said, explaining that she studied 60 hours a week to prepare, using maps and language as her guides.
“I knew I could do it,” she said excitedly. “And I wanted a girl to win this.”
7 Responses to “UNFAIR ADVANTAGE”
 Comment by o.h. May 24th, 2007 at 8:19 am |
CNN’s article last night mentioned only in the “highlights” box above the lede that she was homeschooled; this morning, all reference to homeschooling had been removed and the “highlights” referred to her only as a “student.” What’s the deal there? |
 Comment by lori May 24th, 2007 at 9:19 am |
Girl power + homeschooling power = mighty cool! |
 Comment by Nance Confer May 24th, 2007 at 9:47 am |
I like the way she describes being in charge of her own learning. Hurray! Nance |
 Comment by Ulrike May 24th, 2007 at 1:20 pm |
Thought this was funny: “Even Canadian host Alex Trebek couldn’t keep his states straight. “Trebek, the host of the Jeopardy! quiz show, had to re-tape a portion of the televised contest after he misidentified one contestant as a native of Virginia, rather than West Virginia.” |
 Comment by Unique May 25th, 2007 at 6:13 pm |
What was the unfair advantage? That she was a girl? 🙂 |
 Comment by Daryl Cobranchi May 25th, 2007 at 7:52 pm |
What was the unfair advantage? That’s kind of an inside joke. Years ago a teacher was quoted as claiming that HEKs had an unfair advantage in the Scripps Spelling Bee because they could concentrate on studying spelling while the g-schoolers had all these other distractions/classes they had to deal with. |
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Comment by Unique May 26th, 2007 at 7:19 am |
Oh, Lord. I hope you saved that quote for the DumbSh** Awards. Not quite the caliber for a Darwin Award but headed that way. |