GOODY TWO SHOES: When Failure Is The Only Option
In case you missed it: In an appearance NBC's "Today" show on Monday morning, President Barack Hussein Obama was asked by a woman in the audience whether his daughters Malia and Sasha "would get the same high-quality, rigorous education in a D.C. public school” as they do at Sidwell Friends School, the private school they attend, and he admitted, “The answer is 'no' right now. The D.C. public school systems are struggling," though "they have made some important strides over the last several years to move in the right direction of reform."
Obama added that, “There are some terrific individual schools in the D.C. system” and that as president he has the pull to get his daughters into one of those schools, but that parents without "a bunch of connections" don't have such options.
Nor do they have the $31K it takes for each of their children to attend Sidwell for a year.
The one option low-income D.C. parents did have to rescue their kids from dangerous, failing schools was the federal voucher program that Congress and the Obama administration refused to reauthorize.
When Matt Lauer asked Obama about the documentary "Waiting for Superman" (fifth item) the president referred to the lottery that provides the dramatic tension in the movie, saying that getting into a decent school "shouldn't depend on the bounce of a ball" and that he wants to make “all schools high-quality schools."
With that pie-in-the-sky platitude, Obama shows that he wasn’t broken up enough over the life-changing lottery to replace it with a voucher that will get kids in poor families into a good school.
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