D.C. schools don't measure up - no?

From the Washington Post, President Obama is quoted saying that his daughters could not get the same level of education from D.C. public schools that they receive at the elite private school Sidwell Friends School. Yet he  stopped funding altogether for the District of Columbia's Opportunity Scholarship Program for low-income, mostly minority students in his 2010 fiscal year budget.


What is wrong with this picture? Why do some get the opportunity to do their best, yet others are forbidden to have the same opportunities?


In 1957 nine students in Little Rock attempted to attend Little Rock Central in order to have the same education opportunities as the white students and privilege class of the city. This action started the long struggle for all students, no matter which race, economical status, or parentage would have the same opportunities as every other student. Yet we find fifty-three years later certain persons are allowed special treatment while others' opportunities are taken away for political conveyance or whims of an elitist class.

While the Obamas do have the right to send their children to a private school, it is hypocritical for our president to kill alternative opportunities for children in DC while he acknowledges the schools in DC are not doing the job they are being funded to do.

School choice should be given to every family of our nation. The money to pay for public education should follow the student not the student follow the money, especially if that money is being thrown down a deep hole of year after year of failures.

Where is the outrage of organizations such as the NAACP whom filed suit on behalf of the 33 black children denied admittance to the four white schools in Little Rock? Why are civil rights groups not fighting for school choice, instead of  giving a rubber stamp to mediocrity of our education system which gets worse, year after year no matter how much money you throw at the problem, especially in cities with large minority populations?

For too long we as a nation have let our children down, for those that claim they believe that our children are our  future demand school choice. But that is a lot to ask for a nation that believes children can be flushed down the drain in name of convenience and calling murder a right, that kind of choice as a nation we believe in, more on that later...