You gotta hand it to Sarah Palin for being relentless. As everyone else was celebrating the first minutes of 2009 by making out with a random stranger, attempting not to vomit, or fighting their way through douche bags to get that free glass of champagne, American laughing stock, Sarah Palin, was on the phone with People Magazine setting the record straight on an issue of mass import: The education of Bristol and Levi Johnston.

While neither new teen parent has graduated high school, Palin insists that they are not “high school dropouts,” stating, “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.”

It’s the Bill Clinton school of semantics.

Palin also dialed the AP and the Anchorage Daily News to complain about the ghastly rumor that probably started with Levi, who told the Associated Press that he had left school to work as an apprentice electrician.

Which he did. He just forgot to mention that he is “continuing his online high school work,” as well. Young Bristol is finishing through correspondence.

Palin felt it was important since it may harm their reputation and keep them from getting a job.  Now that it’s cleared up, go ahead and feel free to hire them.