My kids, elite school. Yours… who cares?
He chose to send his own daughters to Sidwell Friends, a private school among D.C.’s most exclusive institutions whose annual tuition runs around $30,000. If he felt so strongly that offering children an exit route would stymie the reform of public schools, then why not put his own daughters in one? Jimmy Carter did. This would not only please unions–prompting them to open up their war chest even more in the next elections–but also signal his resolve about reform. If he didn’t, that’s presumably because his daughters’ futures are too precious to be sacrificed on the altar of politics. But, evidently, the futures of other children are not.
Shikha Dalmia
Writing in Forbes on Obama’s hypocritical choice to kill school choice in D.C.