Sasha & Malia Obama Start School

Access Hollywood - January 5, 2009 1:35 PM PST
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WASHINGTON, DC -- Sasha and Malia Obama started off 2009 with their first day at their new school - on a campus that is no stranger to presidential children.

The Obama girls, ages 7 and 10, began classes on separate campuses at the private Sidwell Friends School on Monday. The school, which is a Quaker academy, is also where Chelsea Clinton attended.

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Sasha's second grade class is at the school's Bethesda, Maryland, campus, while Malia's fifth grade studies will in Washington, D.C.

Tuition fees for Sasha's elementary school are $28,442, while Malia's middle school costs $29,442, per year.

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Michelle Obama and a motorcade of Secret Service agents accompanied the girls on their first day

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  • Sylvia
    I love them even though I didn't vote for them. But the thing that bothers me most is Obama was AGAINST vouchers that would afford more people the opportunity to go to the school of their choice. But he sends his kids to private school as soon as he's in office? That doesn't sit well with me. It's like he expects people to wait for failing schools to do better while
    report abuseposted March 15, 2009 5:39 PM PDT
  • Meredith Lautner
    where's our money going again? *harrumph*
    report abuseposted March 5, 2009 9:28 PM PST
  • Jasmine I
    hey michelle obama how are you doing
    report abuseposted February 5, 2009 2:37 PM PST
  • ON3_N_ONL1333
    Why do you need a big gun huh? You guys are very mean to say that online!
    report abuseposted February 4, 2009 3:28 PM PST
  • ok
    report abuseposted January 21, 2009 5:43 PM PST
  • Jessica W
    those girls are regular children just like everyone else, but at the same time u have to understand who their father is,and bein in the spotlight like that u just can't send them to a public school with other children. plus i think that if they have the money to spend on private school then by all means do it, the quality of education that u will recieve there is better than a public sc
    report abuseposted January 10, 2009 12:37 PM PST
  • america buy a gun,,, a big one
    report abuseposted January 7, 2009 1:48 PM PST
  • pissin away the tax payers money dems are very good at that
    report abuseposted January 7, 2009 1:47 PM PST
  • i just took a poop
    report abuseposted January 7, 2009 1:45 PM PST
  • who gives a rats arse
    report abuseposted January 7, 2009 1:45 PM PST
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