Link: Could you have spelled this?
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These kids tend to be superb students overall but I can’t help thinking that they could be spending their time studying something else.
I was a pretty sharp student and a heavy reader so my natural vocabulary was higher than the average bear. However, I always found the official in school qualifier spelling bees to be incredibly boring. Could you repeat it. Language of origin. Use it in a sentence. I would always get the third word wrong on purpose so I could sit down and read a book. It pi$$ed my teachers off every year.
Me: Ms. Smith, I would like to be in the spelling bee.
Ms. Smith: Go f*ck yourself.
Me: G…o…f…
Eclair??? Was it in the trash? Adjacent to refuse is refuse!!
Pretty sure those kids have mastered "that' pretty well. Spelling bees are how they relax when they are not studying "that".
I take it these boys don’t do well with the ladies. I can relate, except for the intelligence.
There are such things as math groupies. Damn shame it took me forever to recognize this, par for the course with me.I take it these boys don’t do well with the ladies. I can relate, except for the intelligence.
There was a study done that found teenage age males with college level spelling skills suffer from significant shrinkage!I take it these boys don’t do well with the ladies. I can relate, except for the intelligence.
With 10.75 inches I wouldn't think it would matter
Dude, that’s a Bernard Mickey Wrangle special if I ever read one. Kudos, and thanks.
The money is a nice reward - worth winning if you can do it. But otherwise agree - touch some grass kids.
Fixed.He was 92, and one hell of a writer. Everything is part of it.
Of course I can spell Shabat Shalom. is this a trick question?
It’s so funny that we can’t imagine smart kids doing more than one thing lol
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I never met a smart kid who wasn’t good at multiple things. It’s just that these kids spend crazy hours working on their spelling, which is, in the whole scheme of things nowadays, not especially important. It’s like practicing to be the best at shooting free throws, without working on the rest of your basketball game. Even though I have a PhD in mathematics my biggest regret is that I didn’t spend more time working on my math when I was a kid. (I spent my time on literature.) Edit: I didn’t take Calculus in high school even though it was offered. Most every math PhD took calculus in high school.
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FFS these kids are 10yo. They can make time out from their super simple public ed experience and still go to Stanford lol
i Interact with these kids every day, I know they can do this (easily)
i Interact with these kids every day, I know they can do this (easily)
Oh I thought you said they should do other stuff that they can’t do cause prepping for the bee
(which is what you said)
(which is what you said)
Yes, that’s exactly what I said. Taking a cooking class or a shop class or a music class would be better use of their time. Coding class. Take a class at the local community college in organic chem, something like that.
What I did not say: I did not say that the time they spend preparing for the bee would hurt their chances of getting into Stanford. Most of these kids, the ones at the finals, end up going to super competitive schools, I’m sure. These are really top notch students to begin with.
We should get married cause I have no f ing idea what you’re talking about. Is it real, 10.75?
It’s more real than the Steelers not winning a playoff game for the last 11 years.
Steelers are 3-8 in the playoffs the last 11 years. that is 0.273 winning percentage.
10.75 × 0.273 = probably more real