Where do you think Malia Obama will enroll?

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Anonymous wrote:So funny how you worded it "enroll at" rather than "apply to"

Agree.

And "enroll at," like "where that's at," is terrible Maryland usage.

Where are you at?

I should of went to U of MD

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Anonymous wrote:I wish the Obamas would have kept it real and sent their kids to public school, like Amy Carter, who was accepted into Brown.

Yes, accepted into Brown. This is one of the biggest urban myths out there, she neither graduated from DC public schools (she did from a private school back in Georgia) nor did she graduate from Brown University.

They threw her out after sophomore year for neglecting her studies. Clearly an example that the Obamas should want to follow. Skip the judgements about where they choose to send their daughters. I can't name 5 upper middle class AA families in DC that send their kids to DC publics. "Keeping it real" has way too high of a cost.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish the Obamas would have kept it real and sent their kids to public school, like Amy Carter, who was accepted into Brown.

Yes, accepted into Brown. This is one of the biggest urban myths out there, she neither graduated from DC public schools (she did from a private school back in Georgia) nor did she graduate from Brown University.

They threw her out after sophomore year for neglecting her studies. Clearly an example that the Obamas should want to follow. Skip the judgements about where they choose to send their daughters. I can't name 5 upper middle class AA families in DC that send their kids to DC publics. "Keeping it real" has way too high of a cost.

Affluent AA have been sending their kids to private schools since the 50's. Black Kids at St. Albans, GTD, and Sidwell "aint" nothing new. Plenty of Affluent blacks send their kids to SWW & Benjamin B.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it that just because she's a politicians childe then that automatically makes her Ivy League material?

Because her parents are graduates of Columbia, Harvard and Princeton. I'd expect anyone's offspring with those credentials to be Ivy League material.

My parents have three Harvard degrees between the two of them. The real ones, not the Kennedy School stuff. I was not Ivy League material. My sister was, however--albeit at a lesser Ivy. But I had to settle for a top 25 public school.

This is the most DCUM thing that ever was said.

The point was that a president's kid gets in the Ivy unlike a commoner's kid. But just think: how dumb does a president's kid have to be if she ends up attending, say, UT-Austin?

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Anonymous wrote:I wish the Obamas would have kept it real and sent their kids to public school, like Amy Carter, who was accepted into Brown.

Yes, accepted into Brown. This is one of the biggest urban myths out there, she neither graduated from DC public schools (she did from a private school back in Georgia) nor did she graduate from Brown University.

None of what I wrote about Amy is an urban legend. She did attend public schools in DC (and probably would have graduated if her dad won reelection) and was accepted at Brown.

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If Malia ends up at Brown like Amy Carter and JFK Jr., you'd have to conclude she isn't very bright.

[Anonymous]

This isn't regarding malia, but why hasn't any POTUS kid gone to any of the military academies? Are they barred from doing so?

Now that ROTC is back in the ivies, will we see potus kids going that route?

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Why would they bother to go through the Military Academies, which are difficult and require high intelligence as well as physical ability when they have their pick of colleges?

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Anonymous wrote:This isn't regarding malia, but why hasn't any POTUS kid gone to any of the military academies? Are they barred from doing so?

Now that ROTC is back in the ivies, will we see potus kids going that route?

For one thing, all the recent ones have been girls, who are only allowed limited roles in our military. Why go somewhere where you are treated like an inferior student because of your sex?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it that just because she's a politicians childe then that automatically makes her Ivy League material?

Because her parents are graduates of Columbia, Harvard and Princeton. I'd expect anyone's offspring with those credentials to be Ivy League material.

My parents have three Harvard degrees between the two of them. The real ones, not the Kennedy School stuff. I was not Ivy League material. My sister was, however--albeit at a lesser Ivy. But I had to settle for a top 25 public school.

This is the most DCUM thing that ever was said.

The point was that a president's kid gets in the Ivy unlike a commoner's kid. But just think: how dumb does a president's kid have to be if she ends up attending, say, UT-Austin?

like jeb bush?

how does one go from

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I hope Malia goes to Stanford and gets as far away as possible from the east coast/DC political cesspool. That's why Chelsea went west, and it was a very smart move.

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Yeah, instead she can be surrounded by the startup bubble and the toxic environment that comes with that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-stanford-undergraduate-and-the-mentor.html?_r=0

Stanford is no paradise, no matter what people here think.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish the Obamas would have kept it real and sent their kids to public school, like Amy Carter, who was accepted into Brown.

Lots of people choose private school for their kids. It's not really that big a deal and it's probably easier for a private school to handle a high profile kid then it is for a public school to do so. Having a presidential kid at a public school would probably make life really difficult for the student body and their parents.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish the Obamas would have kept it real and sent their kids to public school, like Amy Carter, who was accepted into Brown.

Lots of people choose private school for their kids. It's not really that big a deal and it's probably easier for a private school to handle a high profile kid then it is for a public school to do so. Having a presidential kid at a public school would probably make life really difficult for the student body and their parents.

What DCPS is the White House zoned for? Thompson?

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Anonymous wrote:If Malia ends up at Brown like Amy Carter and JFK Jr., you'd have to conclude she isn't very bright.

You are a douche.