The president is, essentially, the example citizen. He is supposed to have the perfect family and children and everything he does sets the bar for the rest of the country. When another country looks at "the" American, they look to the president. (This is part of the decision process that goes into voting for me.) Is this how it should be? Probably not. It is unfair. That is a large burden for one person. But it is so.
Even how he handles his children is under scrutiny. Or, in this case, where he puts them in school?
Recently, a school in D.C., where Obama's children attend, came under more pressure than usual for protesting protesters that came to the school. Anti-Obama and anti-gay protesters showed up at the school to apparently "influence" the young minds attending the school. However, the children then protested with their thoughts and ideal on posters.
The news here is not necessarily the the posters the kids put up, but the publicity the school has of late. The school administrator was recently on GQ's 50 most influential people in D.C. list. The administration all the way down to the lunch menu is publicized. With this recent publicity and Obama's recent declaration of change on America's school systems, is this becoming the "model" school?
This isn't really a thesis or an argument, just a thought. Obama could ideally take one school and form it to his idea of perfection and America could take the results of the education there as an example and decide whether or not to apply it to the entire country. Once again, just a thought.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/11/AR2009111126806.html?g=0
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