Home-schoolers thrive at the bees

Washington Times

11/22/2009

It is well-known that home-schoolers excel in competitions like the Scripps National Spelling Bee and the National Geographic Bee. Home-schoolers regularly comprise 15 percent of the entrants to these competitions despite being about 3 percent of the school-age population. In the past 10 years, four home-schoolers have won the spelling bee, and in the past 11 years, five home-schoolers have won the geography bee.

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