Wow, that's a little harsh. Don't you think those girls are going to have enough changes in their lives? Do they also have to attend what many believe to be the country's worst public schools?

This should go a long way to alleviating the notion that the Obamas are elitists.

Perhaps they can get their good friend Bill Ayers --- an educational reform of some notoriety --- to assist them in making their final selection.

Seriously, stop using their children as a political tool. The Obamas have every right to decide to send their kids to private schools. I believe in public schooling but absent serious improvements in the ones in our area, we plan to send our kids to private school, too.

DC public schools are some of the worst in the nation. Why would they send them to public school if they are millionaires and can afford private school?

Sucks for the commoners though. If only DC had higher taxes. That would fix it!

What a message it would be if the Obama's did this! Many of us choose to use urban public schools because the benefits outweigh the negatives. Of course the author is angry: I get angry too when I know that if all the other parent's would use the public schools there would be a great change...but there is always some excuse not to do it. My kids were once in private schools - looking back I think I was sacrificing them then to a set of values which were not mine and are not the Obama's from what we know of them.

What to say, what to say....People who just can't let th e Ayres story go are brain dead and should be taken off of life support. There, that should cover it.