School vouchers are much more complex an issue, but they certainly aren’t public school reform. If anything it’s a way for opponents of public schools to try and cripple them by specifically targeting the emerging middle class students whose parents care a lot about their education. Just imagine if every (or most of the) smart and bright students were suddenly pulled out and all of the rest of the students were the layabouts whose parents don’t care. That would artificially cripple the public school system. Vouchers aren’t about public school reform. They are about giving taxpayer money to private schools. And also has little to do with the topic at hand.

The point is that he opposes school vouchers and sat on a board charged with improving education in Chicago that did zippo. No improvement after millions of dollars spent. He sends his daughters to private school while blocking public school reforms. That’s the point.

This is a double bind, in which if he sends his girls to private schools, he has “deceived” people by supporting increased funding of public schools (somehow… right?). But if he sends them to public schools, he obviously only wants to support public schools because his daughters go to one.

This site would be full of just this story if this is what passes for mendacity here. Nobody could want to help anybody who isn’t an exact clone of themselves. Nobody could mourn the dead because they themselves aren’t dead. Nobody could run websites attacking public figures without themselves being public figures. It would lead to a lot of sore fingers.

Also, Obama cannot be blamed for picking Sidwell Friends. The school has already been tried and tested and has proven that it is more than well prepared for the extra security, responsibilities, and peculiarities that are involved in educating Presidential children.

All this talk of hypocrisy is crap. Sorry, but Obama’s girls in the most likely case cannot go to public school. Their parents considered what was best and SAFEST for them, and probably also asked their opinion. Sending them to private school does not make them hypocrites. If Obama is going to fix the public schools then he can still do it. He DOES NOT have to send his girls to public school. He can send them wherever he damn likes, and just because they do not attend public school does not mean that he is not sincere in his conviction to clean up the public schools.

Okay, amended statement: Maybe he should just homeschool the girls to follow in the ever-worshiped Kennedy footsteps.

1) Does anyone live in D.C? Seriously. Because I don’t and have no idea what their public school system is like. Is it really as bad as the media makes it out to be, because if so I wouldn’t send Hitler’s kids there.(Or you know what I mean.)

2) Obama has said that he wants to change the school systems. WANTS to. Not has. Not magically time-travelled to the future and already done. Wants to. If the system is broken, why would you throw your kids at it before getting a chance to fix the problem?

3) Security issues. Blah, blah blah. Secret service disrupting day. Blah, blah, blah.

4) To Kristine waaaaay up there, homeschooling the girls would not be a first. Jackie Kennedy home schooled their kids, with about 12 to 15 of their friends so they wouldn’t be lonely.

I think the bigger hypocrisy is that Obama tried to convince us that he was just one of us and McCain was the insanely rich, out of touch one, when his daughter’s were attending a private school with a tuition rate that about matches my annual income. Hey, kettle, your pot’s calling.

Maybe if we quit electing insanely rich people (on both sides) we’d quit having kids in these snooty schools the rest of America could never dream of affording. Oh wait, we tried that with Palin and she just got laughed at for being too down to earth.