Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
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Anonymous
| Johnson's daughter went to NCS and came back and gave a long speech about how much she hated it and had to go to Saturday detentions. |
Anonymous
| I know that GHWB's VP Quayle sent his kids to public school because I went to elementary school with his daughter Corinne in McLean. |
Anonymous
Secret Service attended with Amy too, but the amount of Secret Service support is higher now. Sidwell and SAES both have schools with larger campuses where playgrounds and playing fields are more interior and further from the street, rather than separated from the sidewalk by a chain link fence. They aren't surrounded by taller buildings where a sniper could get access. Sidwell, at least, has drop off/pick up on a driveway that's more to the center of campus where access can be controlled. Both schools also have control of who enrolls. A terrorist can't just rent an apartment in bounds with the plan of enrolling their own kid to get access to the campus. I wouldn't want my own kid on an unsecurable playground with a kid who could attract the attention of a sniper, or someone who wants to drive through the perimeter fence in an SUV with a bomb. |
Anonymous
| I saw a clip on TikTok recently about Ana Gasteyer (from SNL) talking about how she was good friends with Amy Carter while in middle school. She was hanging around with her at Camp David during the famous Camp David Accords. Definitely an interesting perspective! |
Anonymous
| Secret service won't allow it. I heard Amy Carter was not allowed to play on the playground because of security concerns. |
Anonymous
Yup, Barbara was a Freshman at Yale & Jenna was a Freshman at UT when Bush was inaugurated. |
Anonymous
Barron went to St. Andrew's. |
Anonymous
I really don't care whether you or any regular people do in terms of school choice. I said "admire" in this very specific context about Carter. I do think elected officials have more responsibility when it comes to what their decisions signal and symbolize. It's like my superintendent sending his kids to private school. That was a bad look. You should inspire confidence in your work and leadership abilities. |
Anonymous
I can't imagine this is true. I have a friend who was friends with her in middle school, who remembers going on bike rides on the Camp David grounds, so within the security perimeter, with Secret Service following them. |
Anonymous
Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft had kids in DCPS at some point. |
Anonymous
I read this week,can’t remember where, that it was Theodore Roosevelt. |
Anonymous
That’s interesting because his son Ben went to St. Albans. He found a cockroach in the cafeteria food and when the school newspaper wanted to report on it the administration spiked the article. Then all of the editors resigned and started a new school newspaper called The Independent. This was in 1988 or 1989, Quayle kid was probably 12 at the time. |
Anonymous
The Bush girls were def kindergarteners at Horace Mann (the public elementary in DC not the private in NYC) bc the family was living in DC. I was their lunch aid as a 5th or 6th grader. Barbara used to come to the school and help us plant the garden. |
Anonymous
You can’t walk a talk. Someone may talk the talk but not walk the walk — that makes them a hypocrite. Or someone can not just talk the talk but also walk the walk — that makes them a real ‘un |
Anonymous
Was that when he was a Senator? |