W. other children of the political/social elite. (it's *private* and big $$$).
(Duncan went there too, If I'm not mistaken. Father was on the faculty of U of C.)
Obama: Punahou School in Honolulu. From age 10 on. Private and expensive. ( My guess is he won an academic scholarship. No ever said he wasn't a good student.)
Grandparents pulled strings to get him in there, however. He jumped the line, so to speak. It's in "Dreams From My Father".
He did go to both private ( Catholic) and "public" school as a very young child in Indonesia. I "" the "public" because I'm not sure "public" school means exactly the same thing in Indonesia as it means here. ( I suspect it does not; but I could be wrong.)
The president... to the best of my knowledge never attended an American public school.
Nor did his children.
This being the case... I can't help but wonder how he came upon his ideas about public education.
I think if we could determine *that*.... we ( teachers and other people who know a lot about public schools) might be able to more effectively engage him on the issue.... to put it as diplomatically as I possibly can.
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