It still amazes me just how little D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty seems to understand about talking to reporters. The more he categorically refuses to answer a single question about the process that took place to enroll his two sons in the high-performing Lafayette Elementary School, even though their neighborhood school is West Elementary, the more journalists are going to keep after this story. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to talk to Fenty in the middle of a press scrum, just check out the video below, courtesy NBC4’s Tom Sherwood. Mike DeBonis has a write-up with full audio of yesterday’s heated exchange over at City Desk as well.

The important thing to note here is that Sherwood and the other reporters present actually try to give Fenty an out here by asking him to explain how any D.C. child would go about enrolling as an out of boundary student at a school like Lafayette, and this mayor, who wants to be known almost exclusively as an education reformer, won’t even answer that question. Mr. Mayor, all you have to do give them a little nibble on the process, say you followed the rules (as has already been reported), and then we can all move on.