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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS are horrible, anyone living in DC with kids would immediately put there kids in private school if they had the money. Obama won't send his kids to DCPS, says something about the most in touch with the middle class president.

Obama: D.C. schools don't measure up to his daughters' private school

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/27/AR2010092701766.html[/quote]

Of course DC schools don't all measure up to Sidwell.  But that doesn't mean that all DC schools are horrible, or that anyone living in DC with kids would immediately put THEIR kids in private school if they had the money.  I know many people - including myself - with the funds to put their kids in private school who choose DCPS or charters.  They would not send their kids to just any DCPS or charter, but there are very good ones that they do choose, even over Sidwell and other Big Three schools.

And, you are kidding yourself if you think that the President - even this one - has the same educational considerations as the rest of us.  He needs his kids in a school that is both great and a fortress.  If the OP had asked whether public or private would be better for the President's children, I am sure that most of us would agree that private can probably protect his children and provide them with a more focussed education than private.  The Secretary of Education, on the other hand, chose public for his kids.[/quote]

So the president is better than,us and deserves non dcps[/quote]

That is not what I said at all, although I am pretty sure that he can write better than you can.  What I said is that the President does not have the same educational considerations as the rest of us.  The President's kids are being raised under a microscope and with a lot of threats on their lives.  They need to go to school in a very protected facility that can easily accomodate a team of secret service agents, frequent security threats, and standard visits by the President.  Not only does security have to be very tight, but the school also has to be equipped to deal with this without it affecting the education of the children whose presence is causing the issues.  Very few places are capable of doing that.  Sidwell already proved, with Chelsea, that it could handle such a situation without distracting the children from the education too much.  If I were the President, I would make the exact same decision.  As I am not, and luckily my children do not have to worry about such issues, I have chosen to send them to a very good charter school where I think they will actually thrive more than they would at Sidwell, which I don't think would be a great fit for them.[/quote]

You stupid[/quote]

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