Spelling Bee

This is the kind of media exposure that gives homeschoolers a bad name. Check out the 450+ comment thread over at LiveJournal's Oh No They Didn't and see for yourself.

Let's just say this is one of the most painful interviews I've ever watched. Someone ought to smack the parents of this child for putting him in front of a camera without any supervision.

As some people on the thread have said, he seems to have high functioning Asperger's Syndrome but without that context he comes across as both awkward and rude as a consequence of being homeschooled, not necessarily due to possible developmental disabilities.

Sigh.

Let me just state the obvious : What you will see is the exception not the rule when it comes to homeschooled kids.