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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan went on NPR yesterday and told Melissa Block that his two young kids will attend a D.C. public school. "There are great, great schools (in D.C.)," Duncan said. "We feel very confident they'll be able to get a great education here." There was some criticism lobbed at the Obamas for choosing a hoity toity D.C. private school for their girls, but you could at least make the argument that a desire for continuity prevailed in both families: the Duncan kids attended public schools in Chicago, while the Obama girls were in a private one. Interestingly, though, Duncan made his remarks right after the Obamas stopped by a D.C. public charter school to read to some second graders and sing the school's praises. Think Duncan's promise to send his kids to a "public" school could actually mean public charter?
What Kind of Public School Will Arne Duncan's Kids Attend?
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I never really understood why there is such scrutiny over where Federal politicians send their children. A state senator, the DC mayor, etc. I can jive with but the President and the United States Secretary of Education? Please.
If you're a head of an organization that advocates failed public education policies and lobbies against public school reform, yet you put your own kids in a private school, that makes you a hypocrite.
I don't really see that as hypocrisy. People with cash always have the option to send their kids to private school, which is (in DC in particular) a pretty sure-fire way to get your kids a better education. Public schools will always exist, and will always need some sort of national governance. I guess I see the choice of sending your kids to private school as completely independent of the choices you make when regulating public schools.
I see the hypocrisy, if we're calling it that, as remarkably trivial. Though really, the dude should just take a pass, move to McLean, and send his kids to Langley. Go Saxons.
I meant governor, not state senator.
Public Charter schools are public schools....why jeopardize your child's eduation (a child, I might add, who has no say in the matter) just to prove your political point. Ridiculous. Parent first, politician second....says someone who is a publicly educated kid.
which school has the lowest scores in the city? send the kids there.
(in all seriousness)
(no, really)
(ok, i'm kidding)
I really don't give a crap where people send their kids to school, what grocery store they frequent or what radio station they listen to. What I do care about is their job performance.
(1) Will they do a good job or a bad job?
(2) Are they qualified for their position?
(3) Do they owe any back taxes?
(4) Have they lived in Australia?
(5) Will they use the speakerphone at all times?
I certainly hope I don't make decisions based soley on what others think I should do.
I heart my speakerphone! I am going to do extra yelling today, just for you, Wizzy.
I assume Duncan will move to NW, be it Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park, AU Park or any of the other mostly white neighborhoods where high ranking government official live, if they live in DC. The neighborhood schools for those areas including Eaton, Mann, Key, Lafayette have excellent test scores (and a lot of out of boundary kids) and the Duncan children will do well there.
While one might assume Duncan could send his children to a school on the level of Oyster say, I seem to recall seeing his family not long ago and one his children (the boy, I think) is a ginger. A ginger!