Hilarious…

Remember all that National Spelling Bee hullabaloo from last week? Well, Dr. Macarthur pointed me to a little blurb about some of the people who lost…

For example, one ten-year-old named Katie got words like “anastomosis” and “zedoary” correct, neither of which I’ve ever heard before… But what word does she get wrong? “Friend.” Now, the real kicker here is what Katie’s Mom said, in defense of her daughter’s stupidity:

We thought we had all of the words covered, but then they pull one out of the blue like that.? The real challenge for the kids is when they come across a word that they just don’t ever use in their daily life.

Apparently being home-schooled means you don’t have very many “friends”…

Oh, and another good one… This kid, Kevin, is a fifth grader and got words like “consecrated” and “intracutaneous” correct, but then misspelled “sapphic,” which apparently means ‘of or pertaining to homosexuality among women.’ Well, when asked about it, his mother said the following:

I just couldn’t believe it when they announced his word.? The whole reason we pulled him out of the public schools in the first place is so he wouldn’t have to be exposed to a filthy word like that.

Mom, thanks for not home-schooling me…