Obama. There is hypocrisy here.

Sidwell Friends

The American educator and philosopher John Dewey said, “What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children.”

I’ve never been one to get all bent out of shape about where political figures send their kids to school. Where they stand on public policy is what concerns me.

So the fact that President Obama and Mrs. Obama sent their daughters to U of C Lab School when they lived in Chicago and to Sidwell Friends in DC and not to public school has been pretty much their business.

Until now.

President Obama chose to make this a matter of public policy when he addressed the issue with Matt Lauer on NBC, the Fox Network when it comes to education reporting. He said that the DC schools aren’t good enough for his kids compared to Sidwell.

The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss commented appropriately:

There is some irony behind President Obama’s comment that his daughters could not get as fine an academic experience in a D.C. public school as they do at private Sidwell Friends School: His education policies promote some practices that Sidwell wouldn’t dream of adopting.

While I’m not shocked that there is hypocrisy here, it should be noted.

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