Why Sidwell Firends? The cost of an Adequate Education.

I was talking to my little sister the other day. She tells me the amount of money she pays for her son to attend the prestigious Browning School in Manhattan is pretty much the same as a year's tuition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Obama's will shell out similarly.

This from Ed Week:

Obamas Pick Private School,

Citing 'Fit,' Security, Privacy

President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have chosen a private school for their two daughters, opting for an institution that another White House child, Chelsea Clinton, attended a decade ago.

Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, will be attending Sidwell Friends School, a private, Quaker school with a campus in northwest Washington for grades 5-12 and another in suburban Bethesda, Md., for kindergarten through 4th grade. Malia is in 5th grade and Sasha is in 2nd grade...

[An Obama aide] said Sidwell Friends can provide the security and privacy that the girls will need as part of the new first family. Tuition is $28,442 at the lower school and $29,442 at the middle and upper schools.