Part of the benefits package at the University of Chicago is free tuition for your children, from kindergarten all the way through college. U of C’s lab school is a very good school. I can’t see Michelle passing it over in favor of CPS for a political or philosophical point. Personally, I would think less of the Obamas had they done that.

Let me go on record to say Barack Obama will not be paying to send two kids to 30K per year private schools.

Neither he, nor his wife, make enough POST TAX to pay for it.

I don’t agree. Obama’s getting a hefty pay increase. What’s left of $400K after taxes and living expenses, should be enough to cover it. If not, I’d be very suspicious of his ability to manage his personal finances.

It is better to put those students on the streets than to turn the schools into the streets. I object to my education tax dollars going for mere baby sitting.

You think that amount is going down?

Yes, it is going down. Sitting presidents don’t sell books and Michelle appears to be leaving her job.

That said, of course the First Kids aren’t going to DC public schools and it’s ridiculous to argue that they should. The hypocrisy lies more in the fact that they didn’t go to Chicago public schools. There’s more in the dog and pony show of visiting the DC schools, as if that was actually an option to be considered.

You think that amount is going down?

Yes, it is. Sitting presidents don’t sell books and Michelle appears to be leaving her job.

That said, of course the First Kids aren’t going to DC public schools and it’s ridiculous to argue that they should. The hypocrisy lies more in the fact that they didn’t go to Chicago public schools. There’s more in the dog and pony show of visiting the DC schools, as if that was actually an option to be considered.

They made a couple of million in the last few years. Mostly from his book sales. You think that amount is going down?

Neither he, nor his wife, make enough POST TAX to pay for it.

I am sure someone will “take care of it” as they did the Clinton’s millions in law suit bills when they were allegedly “broke.”

I love the hypocrisy. I will celebrate all bad that befalls them.