Some freeper threads are beginning to sound a lot like they came from the daily kos!
He should send his girls to the best school he can afford, but he should do so with a sense of guilt that his policies do not give other, far less affluent, families the same choice, and condemns their kids to the wasteland of urban public education.
Thank you for bringing some sanity into the issue.
They should go to DC schools like the disadvantaged black kids doesn’t he think the added security and attention will trickle up and improve the whole publik skrewel system?
We won’t be paying the bill
who do you think pays the salary of the US prez?
No one is arguing that Obama should send his kids to the lousy DC public schools!!!!!
It is his hypocrisy that Freepers are upset about!
I find it annoying to hear all these Freepers brilliantly saying”Well, duh, its about the safety of his kids, “or
“its none of our business where he sends his kids.”
Dang right it is my business as a taxpayor that the creep makes me pay for public education through my taxes and will not Allow Choice!
I think there ought to be a Freep at the Sidwell school with signs saying “Why can’t ALL DC kids be able to choose?”
And this public education mess and the educ unions IS A VERY BIG DEAL cause its idiots that don’t understand american economics or politics voted someone like this jerk in!
It is our business, because he viciously opposes anything that makes it possible for most working people to send their kids to private school.
He also poses as being a common man, against wealthy elitists.
So if he’s such a supporter of the public schools, and such a commoner, i don’t see whats wrong with him being exposed as a fraudulent hypocritical ass. Jimmy Carter sent his kid to public school.
Its sorta like Diane Fienstein and Rosie O’Donnel wanting my guns taken away,, then we find out they enjoy the protection of a gun.
This country isnt based on class warfare,,, but it wasnt based on an elite class living by the ethos of “for thee, but not for me”. Especially the ones like Obama who use every tool at their disposal to stop any development of the private and home school movement.
I was thinking the same thing. I wouldn’t expect them to send those kids to a public school.
“and it’s stupid to even think or suggest that they should go to public school in DC or anyplace else. For one thing, think of the disruption to the rest of the student body....”
I thought that way as well for a time. Then I realized that the presence of POTUS daugthers would probably make the public school SAFER for all students. This would far outweigh any disruption. Bottom line.....President Elect Obama sought out the vote of inner city ghetto dwellers...but he won’t let his children be associated with them. That is supreme hypocrisy.
I agree that he should do what is best for his children, but it doesn’t jive with his rhetoric.
Unfortunately, where he sends his kids to school is our business. You see Barack Obama is a big supporter of the teachers unions, the kind they don’t have at Sidwell Friends, but the kind that every public school must have as demanded by his politburo. He has rejected vouchers because it is a threat to the monopoly that the NEA has bought and paid for with teachers’ dues money given to the Democratic Party. In Newark NJ, African-American Mayor Cory Booker is for vouchers, and anything else that will get his kids out of the permanent - Democratic created underclass in that Gulag of Education known as the public school system.
Do I blame Obama for sending his kids to private school - the answer is no because he wants the best education for them. But I do blame the hypocrisy of his party and I cast some doubt on this bogus security claim - a public school should be made safe if it isn’t, dammit, and let’s stop this blatant lying!
Jersey City, Trenton, New Brunswick, Patterson, Passaic, Camden, Philly, Wilmington, Baltimore, Washington DC, Chicago - the school children in these Democratically controlled public schools have learned nothing but how to walk through a metal detector. And for years the teachers union, which funds the Democratic party, has demanded more money and more resources to solve a problem that their own existence causes. The NEA is the UAW of education and like the UAW, it should be ended as soon as possible because labor unions are past their prime and little more than extortive devices that bring down production and bleed industries dry. Labor unions have absolutely nothing to do with the intellectual development of a human mind - so why are they forced down kids throats.
Why is Michigan a disabled economy and Alabama makes millions of cars profitably - because Alabama has no unions.
The Democrats have lectured the rest of the country on racism for decades and frankly the hypocrisy is sickening when it comes to their own doings about urban education. Obama should be forced to send his kids to public schools because he forces every else’s to do so. I am sick of the economic apartheid where rich Democratic folks can avoid the public schools because they are terrible places, but let the poor, which they claim to advocate, suffer as their children are forced to go to failing schools. Which means they grow up dependent on the government, which means they will turn to the Democratic party to dispense life support in exchange for mindless votes - the political benefits of creating a permanent underclass. Have we seen a change in these schools in 50 years - I think not. Time to flush the unions, the monopoly, the whole thing, and in the cities finally offer these families some real choice about educating their children.