‘Let Me Rise’

Lindsey Burke / October 19, 2009

Early this morning, the President and first lady attended parent-teacher conferences at the Bethesda and Northwest D.C. Sidwell Friends School campuses for their daughters, Sasha and Malia. The exclusive school boasts a strong academic program in a safe and nurturing learning environment. Upon arriving in D.C. last winter, the First Family carefully weighed their options and chose to have the girls attend private school in the district – a preferable alternative to the unsafe and ineffective D.C. public schools. And like the Obamas, nearly 40 percent of members of Congress have at one point chosen to exercise school choice and send their children to private school.

Yet Obama and many members of Congress – who clearly understand the value of school choice for their own children – have allowed that same choice to be denied to many low-income families in D.C. (more…)