Have you ever seen the TV show “Wife Swap?” Admit it, you have. It is a form of ethnography in its own somewhat demented way. But it is also a very specific, network-endorsed statement about class and character of society.
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\nIt seems that it is fairly often the case that one of the families, and the families are always contrasted in many different ways, home schools.<\/p>\n
At lease one homeschooling proponent claims that the show “stacks the shelf (sic)” against homeschoolers, making them appear less mainstream than homeschoolers really are.<\/p>\n
As a homeschooler, I really feel that I have had enough of this inequitable display. While I agree that the homeschooling families they choose to profile are waaaayyy off center, one must realize that it is the homeschooling families they (Wife Swap producers choose to profile.)<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the other family seems a lot closer to mainstream of daily life, as they seem to choose families that are generally a bit more driven in one way or another than normal families.<\/p>\n
Tonight’s show for example, featured a homeschooling family with six kids living in a tree house. …<\/p>\n