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Parents Protest Child's Spelling Bee Loss

San Francisco Chronicle, AP News

Friday 10 February 2006, 11:33 am
Keywords: News Articles

AP Breaking News

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.

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

School spokesman Steve Mulvenon says defending a lawsuit over a spelling bee isn't a good way to spend school district money.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/02/08/national/a131010S43.DTL

(Should I have put this in the "humor" category or not?)