State Superintendent Wins Million on Game Show

Posted by Beth DuBose on Sep 10, 2008

GA State Superintendent of Schools, Kathy Cox, won the $1 million prize on “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?”

I was in Atlanta over the weekend, and heard the buzz about the State Superintendent of Schools winning on a popular game show. Prior to the show airing, many people were criticizing GA State Superintendent of Schools, Kathy Cox, for risking her reputation by going on the game show "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" Well, Superintendent Cox came away as the first $1 million winner on the show, showing students that it is still cool to be smart. I found an article in The New York Times about her success. My favorite piece of the article states that Superintendent Cox could have stopped at $500,000, but decided she had to continue on to the million dollar question because she could not bring herself to state to students watching that she was "dropping out." She will be giving her winnings back to the GA state schools, primarily to the GA schools for the deaf and blind.

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