Originally Posted by WhistlePig

I thought we weren’t doing hyperbole? That was your criticism. No one wants poor schools for anyone. But, most people don’t want to pay a tax increase to properly fund them either. Not at the Federal, State, and certainly not the local level. Go to your next city council meeting when they discuss a millage increase of 1/10 to buy new textbooks and watch the retirees come out of the woodwork in opposition. Now some communities do value education, and strong public schools as they recognize the value of a well educated work force base as the manual jobs are becoming highly automated and they want to keep their citizen taxpayers at home and productive. But that’s the exception.

Regarding President Obama’s children: What would you suggest the Obama’s should do about the education of their children, children who received credible and actionable death threats on a regular basis. How do you keep them safe? How do you keep their classmates safe? You send them to the school that has the most experience in The District with educating and securing high value targets. That’s how. President Carter’s kids went to public school, true. It was a different time, and he was a different president.

Did President Obama do enough for education? That’s debatable and his administration is certainly open for criticism. His administration was not openly hostile to education and student safety as the Trump administration is. Thankfully, just about everything Cruella DeVos tries (I couldn’t help myself on that one, it’s so low hanging) to do is so patently illegal it withers under initial scrutiny.