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Scott Remer, the only full-time spelling bee coach, charges $180 an hour | Champs say he's worth it
Remer says he coaches 34 spellers this year and has helped five national champions, while charging up to $180 an hour.
- The Scripps National Spelling Bee, which began Tuesday and concludes Thursday in Washington, features 247 spellers; multiple students of professional coach Scott Remer are all but certain to reach the finals.
- A 32-year-old Yale and Cambridge graduate, Remer is the country's only full-time professional tutor for elite spellers, having coached five national champions since 2020 and scaled his practice to 34 students this year.
- Charging up to $180 for private lessons, Remer also collects a 10% "performance-based bonus" if his students finish in the top 10, while drilling them on language roots and patterns to instill deep linguistic understanding.
- Despite his influence, some families find Remer's intense personality and fees "prohibitively expensive." University of Pennsylvania student Navneeth Murali and parent Sreedhar Siliveri sought cheaper alternatives, charging roughly $50 and finding friendlier high school coaches.
- Scripps, the Cincinnati-based media company running the bee, does not endorse coaching, though executive director Corrie Loeffler acknowledges the practice is inevitable, emphasizing that success ultimately depends on the speller's "hard work, study ethic, it's perseverance.
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Scott Remer, the only full-time spelling bee coach, charges $180 an hour | Champs say he's worth it
Scott Remer is the country's only full-time, professional coach for kids competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Here's what to know about the man who has coached five national champions.
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