You've gotta love the title of a blog post called "Home-Schooler Misspells 'Friend' in National Spelling Bee". This is a wonderful piece. Derek Conley misspelled "secularism" and was eliminated from the bee.
Derek said that he's still kicking himself for misspelling a word that he hears his parents use so frequently. "It's one of those bad words, almost like a cuss word. I think that's why I messed it up."
"Sapphic" threw another contestant for a loop and so parents now find themselves needing to defend their children from the "homosexual agenda" & secularism and are considering a lawsuit.
"These kids work so hard to get here and then they're asked to spell words like 'sapphic' and 'secularism,'" Mrs. Stewart complains. "These are terms they shouldn't even have to see or hear, let alone spell."
And people like Mrs. Stewart are allowed to vote?
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