Obama's Kids Go to A Private School as Chicago Public Schools Lose 41,000 Students

Mayor Daley delivers the news that Chicago's losing children and not as many public schools are needed:

Half-empty schools are "unacceptable" because they don't serve their students or the communities they're supposed to anchor, Mayor Richard M. Daley said Thursday, setting the stage for the biggest wave of school closings in decades.

Officials contend 147 of 417 neighborhood elementary schools are from half to more than two-thirds empty because enrollment has declined by 41,000 students in the last seven years. A tentative CPS plan calls for up to 50 under-used schools to close, consolidate with other schools or phase out over the next five years.

Barack Obama will not be helping stem the decline because his kids go to this private school.I guess not everyone is committed to public education.I guess some parents don't want their kids to experience "urban diversity".