Comments | fenstanton: Obama gives middle finger salute to black DC families

fenstanton

Obama gives middle finger salute to black DC families

Nov 22, 2008 10:43

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 ( Read more... )

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jukebox_heroine November 22 2008, 18:08:49 UTC

i agree with this.

ahistorical November 22 2008, 20:12:24 UTC

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 ( ... )