The O’Keefes, a midseason replacement on WB, portrays homeschooled
\nchildren as weirdos who’ve sacrified social interaction for unwholesome braininess.
\nSo they go to public school to learn how to be real kids. <\/p>\n
Home schooling is not only getting out of the house, it’s
\ngetting on the air. Warner Brothers will be airing a half-hour sitcom, "The
\nO’Keefes," in which, according to the television treatment, two parents
\n(played by Judge Reinhold and Kirsten Nelson) home school their three gifted
\nand multilingual kids in order to protect them from a materialistic society.<\/p>\n
According to the WB, the O’Keefe siblings can speak six languages, "but Now Hollywood has added to it’s arsenal of stereotypes. The ignorant The O’Keefes, a midseason replacement on WB, portrays homeschooled children as weirdos who’ve sacrified social interaction for unwholesome braininess. So they go to public school to learn how to be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhave no idea how to talk to kids their own age." An air date for the sitcom
\nhas yet to be scheduled, but the proposed show has already stirred commotion
\namong the home-schooling community.
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\nself righteous anti-science fundamentalist has long been used but now they
\nwant to perpetuate the urban
\nmyth of the home school family with a fortress mentality where the kids never
\nleave the house or interact with people their own age. I am surprised that
\nthe parents aren’t being portrayed as religious nuts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"