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[buckeyefool]

Parents Protest Child's Spelling Bee Loss

From Associated Press
February 08, 2006 4:10 PM EST
RENO, Nev. - She spelled it right. The judge said it was wrong. And she's not getting a second chance. Eighth-grader Sara Beckman from Reno's O'Brien Middle School spelled "discernible" correctly during Tuesday's spelling bee at the University of Nevada, Reno. But the judge rang the bell anyway.
Her parents are furious, but organizers say they had to protest the call immediately. Sara's mom said they waited until the bee was over to avoid interrupting it.
School spokesman Steve Mulvenon likens it to a referee's call in an NFL game. The protest has to come before the next play starts.
Sara says she'd just like another chance, since it's her last spelling bee.
Her mother Cindy calls herself a "momma bear with her bear claws out" and is ready to go to court.
Mulvenon hopes everybody can sit down together and work something out.
He says defending a lawsuit over a spelling bee isn't a good way to spend school district money.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

They should comprimise. Let the kids pick on her a little bit extra every day, since thats what they would do had she actually won.

 

[Brutus1]

They should comprimise. Let the kids pick on her a little bit extra every day, since thats what they would do had she actually won.

Uh, I'm guessing you never won a spelling bee.

 

[Thump]

Uh, I'm guessing you never won a spelling bee.

 

[exhawg]

Thanc god I nevar hafe too wurry aboat mie kyds wynning a speling bea.

 

[Thump]

speling bea.

Is this a veiled Bea Arthur reference?

 

[scooter1369]

Lots of important lessons here.

1. Little Sara just learned that life isn't fair.

2. The school system just learned that Sara's mom, while well meaning, is a bitch.

3. Never let Dan Quayle judge a spelling bee.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Must be Big Ten officials "keeping fresh" in the offseason?

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Thanc god I nevar hafe too wurry aboat mie kyds wynning a speling bea.

Eye due knot no, ewe gaught Gawd write

 

[LoKyBuckeye]

Thanc god I nevar hafe too wurry aboat mie kyds wynning a speling bea.

uhhh... learn how to spell.... it's whynning.

geez.

 

[CausticMick]

Her mother Cindy calls herself a "momma bear with her bear claws out" and is ready to go to court.

 

[exhawg]

Eye due knot no, ewe gaught Gawd write

isnt gawd supposted too bea capitolized two?

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

uhhh... learn how to spell.... it's whynning.

geez.

Our ewe shur?

 

[LoKyBuckeye]

know, I'me knot shure. :moo:

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

isnt gawd supposted too bea capitolized two?

Win eye lurnd speling en skool eye thaught sew.