Gabriel Sherman’s written a very entertaining piece on the furious competition between Washington’s elite private schools to enroll the Obama daughters next term. Enjoyable as it is, you may find yourself wishing they could all lose. However, the piece reveals one of th egrubbier, more ghastly sides of the city.
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Nonetheless, the issue of where the Obama girls go to school is interesting. Back in 1992 the Clintons toyed with the notion – perhaps even promising? – that Chelsea would attend a bog-standard public (ie, state) school. That didn’t survive a recce of the DC public school system (though I suspect that the Secret Service had a say too) and I doubt many people really think the Obamas are going to put their kids into a public school.
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