Homskulerz liek us
Last night we watched a movie with one of the funniest caricatures of a home school family I have ever seen. Being a second generation home schooler, it's not hard for me to see how easy it is for people (or Hollywood) to stereotype homeschoolers. I've done it myself. But this movie's homeschooling family was different than your average stereotypical homeschooling family - they were cool. No, they were very cool. They were too good to be true cool. They were, in a word, very-much-like-our-family (Yes, that's one word! My wife's an editor, so I should know.)
Dad was an All-American man, somewhere between The Good Samaritan and John Wayne. Mom was somewhere between Betty Crocker and Britney Spears. And the kids were, well, like ours, perfect in every way - musical, athletic, good looking, smart, and kind.
If there were more homeschooling families who were truly too good to be true - yes, even too good to be likable - everybody would be doing it. Until then, we'll keep trying.
And that's all I have to say about that!
Dad was an All-American man, somewhere between The Good Samaritan and John Wayne. Mom was somewhere between Betty Crocker and Britney Spears. And the kids were, well, like ours, perfect in every way - musical, athletic, good looking, smart, and kind.
If there were more homeschooling families who were truly too good to be true - yes, even too good to be likable - everybody would be doing it. Until then, we'll keep trying.
And that's all I have to say about that!
posted by Jill | 2:26 PM
8 Comments:
Hahaha, my family is definitely not the too-good-to-be-true type. We're good homeschoolers, just not perfect homeschoolers.
At first I didn't get your title. I thought it was some sort of Yiddish phrase, but I figured it out!
Melody, you just keep working at it!
Somehow Jill seems a bit closer to Betty Crocker than Britney Spears...but I would like to add that you have ALWAYS reminded me of John Wayne. ;D
"It's cool to home school..."
How's that for a catch-phrase? We could recruit many new families with a snappy jingle like that one, ya think?
:-)
"Somewhere between Betty Crocker and Britney Spears."
Hmmm. You're covering a lot of distance with that phrase. :-)
Sounds like homeschooling at Lake Woebegone.
Um, if it's the same movie I'm thinking of, I thought they made the homeschoolers look like idiots! But it turned out okay in the end.
P.S. The new epithet in these quarters, coined by a public-schooled LIT tired out by a long counseling seminar session: "That's worse than four hours of home schoolers giving testimonies!"
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