Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 12:17     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
Anonymous wrote:^^me again. Just found this on Wikipedia: Bush and his family moved to Washington, D.C., in 1988 to work on his father's campaign for the U.S. presidency.[51][52] He was a campaign advisor and liaison to the media, and assisted his father by campaigning across the country.

I remember this because one of his DUIs was in DC IIRC.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 12:11     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:On a related note, when was the last time we had non-legacy, multi-generational wealth presidents?



Obama, Biden, Clinton


What an odd question. Literally the president right now fits this category.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 12:08     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
^^me again. Just found this on Wikipedia: Bush and his family moved to Washington, D.C., in 1988 to work on his father's campaign for the U.S. presidency.[51][52] He was a campaign advisor and liaison to the media, and assisted his father by campaigning across the country.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 12:04     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This decision from presidents after Carter to send children to private was entirely secret service driven.
They never attended public schools back in their respective states.


Chelsea attended public school all the way thru in Little Rock before she went to Sidwell

The Bush twins were in college when their dad won but they went to public high school


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.


Are you thinking of Marvin's kids? The Bush twins never went to DCPS, not when their grandfather was president or when their father was president.


This was late 80's so maybe around the time their grandfather was elected. It was Barbara and Jenna. Might have been brief, but they were there. I was an older student at the same time and there were like than 200 kids in the whole school.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 19:41     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I loved a lot of things about Jimmy Carter, but my expectations of a parent is that they will put their kid first. My understanding is that at Stevens, Amy was not allowed to play outside because there was no way to secure the playground. That sounds pretty miserable for a kid. And frankly, the risk would be significantly higher now. I would judge a president who chose to put their kid at risk in that way. Eventually she moved on to Hardy which was out of bounds, but easier to secure, but I'm still not convinced it was the best choice.


I admire the choice. I disagree that it meant he didn't put her first: Being a POTUS kid means huge advantages your entire life no matter where you went to school. And she was not at risk with security. I think it's an amazing message to give to people: I'm no better than you, and your kids matter as much as my kid. Here is a very nice article about it: https://wtop.com/dc/2017/08/flashback-1970s-amy-carter-dc-public-schools/


That's a wonderful article - thanks for linking, PP!
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 19:28     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:On a related note, when was the last time we had non-legacy, multi-generational wealth presidents?



Obama, Biden, Clinton


And Reagan and most of the Reps before him, including Ford and Nixon and Eisenhower. FDR was from multigenerational wealth. Hoover was self-made. So was Coolidge. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt were from wealthy families.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 19:15     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This decision from presidents after Carter to send children to private was entirely secret service driven.
They never attended public schools back in their respective states.


Chelsea attended public school all the way thru in Little Rock before she went to Sidwell

The Bush twins were in college when their dad won but they went to public high school


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.


Are you thinking of Marvin's kids? The Bush twins never went to DCPS, not when their grandfather was president or when their father was president.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 17:52     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
Anonymous wrote:On a related note, when was the last time we had non-legacy, multi-generational wealth presidents?



Obama, Biden, Clinton
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 17:50     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
Anonymous wrote:On a related note, when was the last time we had non-legacy, multi-generational wealth presidents?


You mean Democrats?
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 17:49     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
Who in their right minds with any kind of money would send their kids to DCPS?
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 17:38     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
On a related note, when was the last time we had non-legacy, multi-generational wealth presidents?

Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 17:13     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
Anonymous wrote:This decision from presidents after Carter to send children to private was entirely secret service driven.


BS.

The presidents' decisions were not driven by the SS. They were driven by privilege and hypocrisy.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 16:05     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My question is who was the last one before Carter? He might have been the only president to do this!
Where did Ford’s kids go to school?


MacArthur ES
George Washington MS
TC Williams HS

We live two blocks from his old house and our kids went to the same schools -- the horror!!!!
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 16:02     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This decision from presidents after Carter to send children to private was entirely secret service driven.
They never attended public schools back in their respective states.


Chelsea attended public school all the way thru in Little Rock before she went to Sidwell

The Bush twins were in college when their dad won but they went to public high school


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.


GHWB lived in Spring Valley (married to Barbara). The twins are the grandchildren. Maybe GWB and his siblings went to Mann?
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 15:34     Subject: Was Carter the most recent president to have sent his child to attend DCPS?
Anonymous wrote: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.


Johnson's daughters graduated from Murch (DCPS) before they went to NCS.

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/the-first-lady-of-forest-hills-when-lady-bird-johnson-was-a-murch-mom/