Presidential choice  President-elect Barack Obama has chosen to
send his children to Sidwell Friends School, the elite private
school where Bill Clinton sent his daughter during his
presidency – a school that approaches $30,000 per year in
tuition.  Education expert (and parental choice advocate) Dr.
Jay P. Greene wrote:  "Supporters of choice try to use the fact
that anti-voucher presidents choose private schools rather than
DC public schools as evidence of hypocrisy.  I don't buy that
argument. There is no more hypocrisy in saying that public
dollars should only go to public schools even if I choose to
use my own dollars at private schools than in saying that public
dollars shouldn't go to think tanks even if I donate to them
with my private dollars."  This is true – there is no hypocrisy
in spending your own money to send your children to private
school while also opposing government-funded vouchers.  The
President of the United States, who receives a salary of
$400,000 a year, must pay for his personal ex