The AP reports on Michelle Obama's visit to the Department of Education :
"There's a lot of work to do and we're going to need you," Mrs. Obama said. "The children of this country are counting on all of us."
In thanking the workers, she told them: "I am a product of your work."
"I wouldn't be here if it weren't for the public schools that nurtured me and helped me along," said Mrs. Obama, a Chicago native who attended its public schools as a child. Her two daughters attend private school in Washington, as they did in Chicago.
James Taranto of
The Wall Street Journal reminds us:
Michelle Obama was born in January 1964. The Department of Education began operation in May 1980, when Mrs. Obama was a 16-year-old high school junior. Apparently she is unaware that there were public schools before there was a federal Department of Education--though we suppose that's evidence that the department does not bear all the blame for the schools' going downhill.
No word yet on why Michelle Obama doesn't think the Department of Education's "work" isn't good enough for her children's education but so darn essential.
