Well here is something not at all shocking. The US girl who tried to sail around the world and then needed rescue in the middle of her failed attempt apparently comes from a family of 8 children. All the kids are home schooled (no shit) and now their loving father has gotten them all gathered around for a reality TV show.
I hate this so much. What is next? Will the youngest be wrapped in luncheon meat and then sent across a game reserve in India that specializes in Tiger preservation?
Why do any families with more than 5 kids assume we want to see them do anything other than risk their lives. Because they are home schooled they are already idiots or follow some batshit crazy religion that can be exploited in some manner.
If I was in this family I would run away with my brother and sisters and then do a show where dad tries to find us all the while trying to recapture his failed dreams of youth - then when he does find us we take baseball bats and recover our childhoods and self-respect. Well except for little Timmy - last seen lost in the Punjab.
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Maybe public education is shit in there area and after 8 kids they can't afford private school.
Some people only see in $$$$$
I just find that most home schooled kids are weird. They usually have weird beliefs and just can't socialize with 'regular' kids. Maybe that kind of weirdness is what the producers of reality snuff look for.
The most ironic term -- the most contradictory label -- of the 21st century has got to be "Reality" TV. This is the modern day equivalent of the Freakshow from the early 20th century.
It is not politically correct to turn physical misfortune into entertainment (unless it is on TLC or Discovery Channel)(but that's another rant), but it is acceptable to take emotionally damaged, or malformed personalities, put them in a room together and watch them flop around. It appeals to the same base nature in the viewers. It reaffirms their pedestrian beliefs while salaciously serving up people who have genuine emotional problems and parading them as entertainment.
TV has no morals or scruples, but what about us who watch it? Where do we fall in the moral scheme of things as we sit comfortably and watch the freaks and feel reassured that we are, at least, normal?
I think you're right about home-schooling. It's basically weird: parents keeping their children in this tiny, controlled, stagnant environment, afraid or contemptuous of normal human life as it's lived outside their little compound. Very unhealthy.
I totally agree with you and M.D.
I can only do my part by having never watched any reality show, ever. There is a sickness in this country that really depresses me. And of course, you are 'blessed' if you have a whole bunch of children. I guess that means you can make a bunch of money off them.
Yeh, I am guilty of watching the freakshow but I am one level removed from actually being on it. Maybe I want to have someone tell 'Kate less one plus eight and a sound guy and a camera guy and a script girl and a director' that she is an attention whore and have her actually admit to that. I don't blame TV because TV is loving and pure. Those who work and produce TV programs are the devil, however.
I have had to deal with alot of home schooler, Margaret, because while our way of doing things is totally evil to them, they still want all the resources they can suck out of the district.
And their kids are weird. They sometimes would attend our events and they never fit in.
I am a fan of just tossing the kids into the snake pit from age 6 and having them survive on their own. 95% of them will make it out okay and the other five percent at least have access to the help they need.
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