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Obamas Choose Sidwell Friends School for Daughters
Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/21/08 | Brad Haynes

Posted on 11/21/2008 5:11:02 PM PST by Elvina

Clinton, Daschle, Geithner… The big-name speculation over President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet appointments can wait while Obama watchers focus on another critical name that surfaced on Friday: Sidwell.

The Associated Press is reporting that the Obamas have chosen the Sidwell Friends School in Washington for daughters Sasha, seven years old, and Malia, 10. The private Quaker school’s alumni include former presidential offspring Chelsea Clinton and Tricia Nixon Cox, as well as House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank and a former princess of Japan.

Sidwell Friends beat out another elite school, Georgetown Day School. Michelle Obama and her daughters reportedly visited both schools on Tuesday. Sidwell, with campuses in Northwest Washington and Bethesda, Md., is home to nearly 1,100 students from pre-Kindergarten to 12th grade. Tuition at the lower school is $28,442 and $29,442 at the middle and upper schools.

A spokeswoman for Michelle Obama was quoted by AP as saying the Obamas feel Sidwell provides “the best fit for what their daughters need now,” including being able to accommodate security and privacy concerns. The Obama girls have also become good friends with Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s grandchildren, who attend the school.

The Obama family also discussed public school options for the girls, according to Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty. The girls currently attend the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools located in Chicago’s South Side.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: bho2008; education; nobama; obama; obamafamily; obamatransitionfile; privateschools; publikskools; quakers; sidwellfriends
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To: hinckley buzzard

LOL, you read my mind.

“The Obama family also discussed public school options for the girls ....”

Transcript of this discussion (Mr. and Mrs. Obama in unison): “AS IF!”


23 posted on 11/21/2008 5:20:55 PM PST by Cecily
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To: giotto

You’re missing the glaring hypocrisy here.....


24 posted on 11/21/2008 5:21:16 PM PST by yooper (If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there......)
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To: Elvina

Okay, black folks who voted for obama. What do you think of this?

Stupid question. They’ll probably think it is Palin who is sending her kids to private schools and she is the one who doesn’t want vouchers.

But brother barack, he’s working to get vouchers for free private school for all the black folks. And he’s sending his kids to the worst public schools in DC until he can get vouchers for everyone.


25 posted on 11/21/2008 5:22:14 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Elvina

“...as well as House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank, a former princess...”

I fixed some of the grammar.


26 posted on 11/21/2008 5:22:29 PM PST by bricklayer
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To: Elvina
Give them a break.

Let's not ciritcize Obama (and wife) for doing things we ourselves would do in his position.

ML/NJ

27 posted on 11/21/2008 5:22:38 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: Elvina
... as well as House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank and a former princess of Japan.

I had no idea Barney Frank was Japanese.

28 posted on 11/21/2008 5:23:05 PM PST by NonValueAdded (once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
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To: basil

I have a hard time believing Barney Frank earned a high school diploma from anywhere. Probably hoovered the principal.


29 posted on 11/21/2008 5:23:44 PM PST by yooper (If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there......)
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To: Elvina

In a billion years, lying hypocritical sc*mbags like would never send their kids to the nightmarish government schools of Washington, DC.

And these very same democrats refuse to allow school vouchers.


30 posted on 11/21/2008 5:24:33 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: skeeter

YOu saying they’re movin’ on up ?


31 posted on 11/21/2008 5:25:55 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA

Well, they do finally have a piece of the pie.


32 posted on 11/21/2008 5:27:16 PM PST by skeeter (Its Barry's fault)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
The private Quaker school’s alumni include former presidential offspring Chelsea Clinton and Tricia Nixon Cox, as well as House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank and a former princess of Japan.
anecdote, just to clarify thinking a bit:
"The rich are different from you and me." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Yeah, they have more money." -- Ernest Hemingway's response

33 posted on 11/21/2008 5:28:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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To: Elvina

Well we all know they weren’t going to homeschool or the might end up “demented”! (Joy Behar reference for those who have been sleeping!)

Hey maybe this Quaker thing won’t be so bad after all. At least the kids might end up Christians!


34 posted on 11/21/2008 5:28:43 PM PST by HomeschoolMomma (No thanks...I already have a Messiah!)
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To: Elvina
House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank and a former princess of Japan. Fixed.
35 posted on 11/21/2008 5:28:49 PM PST by John W (Voters were more afraid of losing their money than losing their souls.)
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To: Elvina

It’s a twofer.

Very elite and very liberal. What more could they ask?


36 posted on 11/21/2008 5:29:06 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Elvina

Amazing


37 posted on 11/21/2008 5:30:20 PM PST by wastedyears (Every FReeper is on Obama's Black List. He will try to have us all "taken care of." Mark my words)
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To: ml/nj
Let's not ciritcize Obama (and wife) for doing things we ourselves would do in his position.

I would have no problem if a pro-school-choice president did this. It is when someone like BHO who is in bed with the teacher's unions and opposes school vouchers and choice does this that I have a problem. Don't even get me started.

38 posted on 11/21/2008 5:31:34 PM PST by Elvina (BHO is double plus ungood.)
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To: ml/nj

Why give them a break on hypocrisy?????

Why not allow free choice for ALL kids and let ALL kids chose to go to safe schools?

Your point is not logical. Of course, it is obvious that everyone would want their kids in safe schools...THAt is not the point!


39 posted on 11/21/2008 5:32:28 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Obozo.....friend of dictators and wannabee revoluuuushionaries !)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
"There was no way those kids were attending school anywhere but Sidwell Friends."

Then don't present yourself as an agent of change in order to get elected. If you intend to put the Clinton gang back in, "Dead Fish" Rahm Emmanuel, Hillary, etc. and then you put your kids in the same Bourgeois schools as those you criticized to get elected, when you represented yourself as an agent of "Change", you have no business wondering why I question your choice of schools. You're a hypocrite right out of the gate.

40 posted on 11/21/2008 5:32:54 PM PST by yooper (If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there......)
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