Sarah Palin insists Bristol and Levi aren't dropouts

On a telephone call to People Mag:

"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. They are certainly not high school dropouts."

The Washington Post says the source of the dropout reports might be 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.