Poor Michelle Rhee. The D.C. Public Schools chancellor seems perpetually locked in the proverbial damned if you do, damned if you don’t posture.

She took heat this week for not reaching the enrollment goal of 45,000 for the 2009-2010 school year. The complaint came on the first day of school — even as parents continued to stream into buildings around the city to register their children and before an official enrollment audit has been conducted.