Just because Bristol Palin has given her newborn son the second worst name ever (second only to that of her brother Trig), Tripp, doesn’t mean she’s lazy. And Sarah Palin wants to make sure everyone knows that Bristol and her baby daddy Levi Johnston are absolutely not high school dropouts (that could seriously hinder Palin 2012.) Sure, Johnston may have told the press that he left school for an electrician apprenticeship, but he’s still messing around on the internet, I mean, taking online high school courses.

The Washington Post reports:

In the wee hours of 2008, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin wanted everyone to know that both daughter Bristol and her fiance, Levi Johnston, parents of Palin's new grandson, Tripp, are not high school dropouts. "You need to know that both Levi and Bristol are working their butts off to parent and going to school and working at the same time," the former Republican vice presidential nominee told People magazine in a phone message on New Year's Eve. "They are certainly not high school dropouts."

Palin was also in touch with the Associated Press and the Anchorage Daily News to complain about what she said were erroneous reports that Johnston had dropped out of school. The source of those reports? Possibly Levi himself. In October, the Associated Press interviewed Johnston and reported that he had left school to work as an apprentice electrician. Palin issued a statement Wednesday clarifying that Johnston is "continuing his online high school work" while he does the apprentice thing.

According to Palin, People reported, any implication that the couple will not graduate from high school "harms Bristol's reputation and Levi's reputation and their chances for good work opportunities." Bristol and Johnston, both 18, have said they plan to wed.

 

I’m pretty sure that Bristol and Levi’s reputations were already rather dubious, but then again, we wouldn’t want to push them right over the edge. So while the young Alaskan lovebirds may not be married, may have a terribly named child, and may be “****ing rednecks” in Johnston’s words, they certainly will not have their job opportunities messed with if Sarah Palin gets her way.