A record number of Americans tuned in this past weekend for the season premiere of Saturday Night Live to see Tina Fey impersonate Sarah Falin. It was hilarious. I even heard that Palin herself gave the performance a thumbs up.
If you stayed tuned however, and you are a homeschooler, you may have very well been offended just two skits later. They used the standard school contest motif where two groups of students try to answer the most questions correctly. Homeschoolers, with biblical names and bad haircuts were on one side. Your average looking public school students were on the other.
Neither set of students had any success answering basic history and science questions. The public school students were obviously undereducated, and the homeschoolers were horribly misinformed. When the students answered the circulatory system works with the help of tiny gremlins in our bodies, the mother jumped in insisting that the answer was right in a crazy-spaced sort of way. She of course was dressed in the modest Mormon dress with the pompadour and French braid hairstyle that is witnessed in extremists.
I guess I should be happy that Saturday Night life mocked both sides of the coin. The public school students had no clue as to what the answers were and didn’t seem to care. The homeschoolers had been educated on fairy tales. I think my problem with it however is that representing homeschoolers as the most extreme segment of homeschoolers in completely unfair to those who are not like that, not to mention disrespectful to those who do dress in modest clothes and teach children from a Christian world-view.
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