Chalk Up Another One for the Homeschoolers
Congratulations to Nathaniel Cornelius, winner of the 2005 National Geography Bee!
A 13-year-old home schooled youth from Minnesota won the 2005 National Geographic Bee on Wednesday.Way to represent, Nathaniel!
Nathaniel Cornelius topped young people from across the nation to win a $25,000 college scholarship.
The winning question: "Lake Gatun, an artificial lake that constitutes part of the Panama Canal system, was created by damming which river?"
The answer: Chagres River.
Cornelius, of Cottonwood, represented the Marshall Area Home Educators Association. In addition to knowing his way around, he plays piano and classical guitar and enjoys photography. He also represented Minnesota in the 2003 and 2004 National Geographic Bees.
posted by jacob.thrasher @ 5/25/2005 04:56:00 PM
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Wow! He's from my state, and he's my age.
I would crush him
Using the Force, I assume...
Ouch!
usually I don't comment because I often find your posts... above me. You go by the title "the-homeschooled-smart-16-year-old-in-Georgia". :) But I could get this post...
Yay go homeschoolers!
It's always homeschooled kids because public schools only really bother with science, math and history.
If that were the case, both the runners-up would be homeschoolers too...
Jacob,
I need to get in touch with you. ... yeah, so do you have a e-mail that you actually check?
I went to a public school for five years and I don't think we EVER did geography(hence why I won our school's geo bee) and the spelling we did was VERY basic/easy. If you wanted to succeed in those bees, you had to study on your own time.
It's always homeschooled kids because public schools only really bother with science, math and history.
No, no, no. Public schools only bother with teaching the kids:
1. Science? You are worthless slime that evolved over millions of years from non-life. This is proven scientific fact (LIE!), so it doesn't matter what you do. Morality doesn't matter either. Sure, go get pregnant. You can always slaughter the result of your immorality. March into a classroom in Columbine and shoot people. It's just natural selection sped up!
2. Math? We have to make the mathematics easier so that children won't ruin their self-esteem! Let's not hold the children back; they might get depressed. Let's hold everyone else back to their level and just say that they are advancing, ok?
3. History? It has always been the religious regimes that oppress people (like Hitler and Mussolini, right?). Religion is a crutch for the weak. The founding fathers were uneducated wimps . . . but still they didn't want God in schools! Yes, yes, they clearly stated in the First Declaration . . . er . . . Amendment . . . that there had to be complete separation of Church and State (like when John Jay said that it is the duty of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers?). In fact, if the government had anything to do with the church, you've got to restrict what the Church is doing. But remember that they are all uneducated boors that didn't know what they were talking about.
Sorry guys, I couldn't resist it.
Ay, the truth is difficult to resist, David. :-D
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