SWAC GIRL has an excellent write-up about this story: SUBWAY has launched a writing contest that specifically EXCLUDES home schooled children. Ironically, it has misspelled words (most conspicuous is basket) on the contest Web Site! Lynn sees their omission as plain discrimination.

American Thinker has another interesting take: Given that so many winners of the Scripps National Spelling Bee have been home schooled students, Subway was trying to avoid the accompanying humiliation which occurs when home schooled students continue to outperform others, especially the government run schools which continue to falter despite the beaucoup bucks we continue to throw at them.

Considering that the number of home schooled students in the commonwealth has jumped from 14,323 in 2000 to 20,240 in 2007, you’d think that SUBWAY would endeavor to attract this rapidly growing group of probable sandwich eaters instead of possibly alienating them:

This is the first time that SUBWAY has left a bad taste in my mouth and judging from my e-mail, a lot of you feel the same way.

Have a safe and happy Memorial Day and don’t forget to stop for a moment to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for us.

UPDATE: Leslie Carbone is the blogger I’d want to be if I actually blogged… more than once… or twice…. a month!  She noticed that SUBWAY’s contest is only for residents of the UNTIED States.  I noticed that I may have dyslexia for not catching that.  Think SUBWAY will give me a proofreading job??