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News From Southern Appalachia

Posted on | February 28, 2010 | 2 Comments

When Instapundit featured the headline, “Knoxville girl wins regional spelling bee,” I sort of figured the Knoxville girl in question might be named Reynolds.

But in fact the winner was Ameena Iqbal, a fifth-grader at Blue Grass Elementary School in West Knoxville, who edged out Nithya Kanagasegar, an eighth-grader at Homestead Elementary School in Crossville.

Once these kids learned to spell their own names, the rest was easy . . .

Category: Culture, Education, Uncategorized

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2 Responses to “News From Southern Appalachia”

  1. Dandapani
    February 28th, 2010 @ 1:05 pm

    As far as I can tell, the surname Iqbal is Muslim from Pakastan, and Kanagasegar is Hindu from India. The family origin of these brilliant children are not surprising. What is is that a homeschooled child wasn’t the winner.

  2. Dandapani
    February 28th, 2010 @ 8:05 am

    As far as I can tell, the surname Iqbal is Muslim from Pakastan, and Kanagasegar is Hindu from India. The family origin of these brilliant children are not surprising. What is is that a homeschooled child wasn’t the winner.