Obama gives middle finger salute to black DC families

[fenstanton]

Ok so i'm the only one who'll write it, but putting your children in Sidwell Friends after talking about changing Washington, believing in your country etc. is ridiculous. It may be i'm cranky that the school is two blocks from where i live and the traffic is bad enough already because of the school, but really. Why choose a 20k+ a year school for

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[ahistorical]

If he had sent his kids to a DC public school it would have looked like a cheap stunt. The school system here needs more than famous kids and money thrown at it to fix.

The reasons the decision hadn't raised many eyebrows:
a) it was totally expected, and
b) they're his kids, and he has to do the best thing for them. Parachuting them into a dysfunctional public school system would not have been in his children's interest. So yeah, fuck everyone else's kids, because he's just doing what parents do.

Also if they did sent them to a public school they would have chosen the best PS on offer anyway right (would that send a similar message? they get to pick and choose when average residents can't) and it would have been very quickly spiffed up to standard if it wasn't already. And then what? would the other schools in the district been quickly and efficiently fixed too? Seriously doubt it.

Bottom line, every parent wants to do the best thing for their children. Two wealthy laywers from Chicago were always going to send their kids to a private school (the girls are at a private school in Chicago). While I agree the state of the district's public school system is deplorable, I can't begrudge the Obama's decision to protect their own children's interests.