Even if President-elect Barack Obama’s daughters have opted for the elite Sidwell Friends private school, many well-off Washington-area parents who could afford private schools are opting to keep their kids in the public system.
“Schools don’t get any better when parents pull their kids out,” said Alison Igoe, a Capitol Hill lawyer and mother of a fourth-grader at the District’s Thompson Elementary. “In fact, they can get considerably worse.”
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