Not For You

The current Democrat President Obama and his last Democrat predecessor Clinton both claimed to be great champions of public education. Both happened to have daughter(s) of K-12 age when they came into the highest office. Did these champions of learning avail themselves and their children of the public schools of Washington D. C.? No, they most certainly did not. Neither President would send his precious kin into the cauldron of D.C.'s failing public education system. Both Obama and Clinton have selected the Sidwell Friends School, an exclusive institution founded by Quakers but now a path directly to the corridors of power that virtually assures lifetime success with networking opportunities from the Ivy League to K Street awaiting those who attend in their later lives. Sidwell is a wonderful avenue to which most every day Washingtonians are systematically excluded. The audacity of politicians, particularly the current and last Democrat President to stand like Orval Faubus in the door of the schoolhouse to block school vouchers to give the children of ordinary citizens similar opportunity is nauseating. These leaders are not interested in advancing learning but in furthering the interests of the two national educators unions. They believe nothing is too good for their own children, and nothing is appropriate for your kids. In their minds, opening the doors to a brighter future is for me but not for thee.