I agree those are all good ideas.
I think though that Obama is not wrong on a need to improve public schools (your ideas are much better than any he may have I’m sure) and the decision for him to send his kids to private school isn’t wrong.
I would think the Secret Service would step in and say the idea of providing competent day in and day out security at a public school would be much more difficult than it would be at a likely already far more secure private school. Having the first children in class would be just another distraction in public schools which need fewer of those rather than more.
From a logistics stand point a smaller (I’m guessing) private school would be a lot easier for the first family’s special needs. And as much as I despise Obama’s ideas - he sure does have a couple of really cute kids!
I did a quick search just to see what President Bush’s daughters did - I guess they are older than I thought! They were already in college by the time he was president - but went to Austin High School when he was Gov.