Congratulations!
Unfortunately, in fourth grade, (the last and first spelling bee I was able to participate in) I purposely got out in my class spelling bee. I started to realize that during the school spelling bee, I would be up on stage in front of people, and decided to lose. That was a very stupid thing of me to do. The two people from my class who went to the spelling bee got out on easy words, such as 'icing'.
In middle school, my core teachers have decided they don't feel like taking the time to do the spelling bee, so they are biased, and pick the 'perfect' student, who they think is a good speller. Once again, I am much better at spelling than the people they pick, and the people get out on easy words. All the other core classes this year and last year got to do a class spelling bee to see who would get to go the school one, but my teachers don't do that.