Reply #55: I'll ask friends who worked in DC public schools if they agree with you [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

That no place in the DC school system would be appropriate for Obama's kids.

Maybe they'll agree with you. :shrug:

All I know is that one of Obama's favorite school administrators, who is being
bandied about as a possible Education Secretary, Michelle Rhee, runs the DC school
system on a top-down basis directed on a national model that Obama supports --
cap-rates related disinvestment in underperforming schools and reinvestment
in high-performing schools. The Mayor of DC, who hired Michelle Rhee and is
a big Obama supporter, sends his kids to DC schools and the school reform plan
that they are implementing is real popular with the technocratic wing of the party.
The favorite thinkers of the new Democratic administration run DC schools directly.

So if Obama's not just full of hot air and actually believes we should disinvest
in the poorest schools and attract elite kids back into the highest performing
DC schools, maybe he should prove this isn't just a plan to do to public schools
what Reagan did to public transit and Clinton did to public housing.