Jenna Bush reportedly eyes DC teaching job...

msnbc.msn.com ^ | Dec. 15, 2004 | msnbc.msn

[crushelits]

President’s daughter applies for job at D.C. public school

First daughters Jenna Bush, left, and her twin sister Barbara, right, speak to supporters and volunteers at Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters in Miami earlier this year.

Jenna Bush, one of President Bush's two daughters, has applied for a teaching position at a public school in Washington, D.C., according to a report in the Washington Post.

The president’s daughter wants to teach at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in the Mount Pleasant/Columbia Heights neighborhood of the capital. The school serves low-income children and has 250 pupils enrolled in kindergarten through sixth grade. Ninety percent of the pupils come from low-income homes.

The White House has not released details of the job, but Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for first lady Laura Bush, told the newspaper that Jenna Bush “will live in Washington and will go to work at a public school.”

Linda Moore, the school's founder and executive director, wouldn't confirm she has hired one of the president’s twin daughters, telling the Washington Post in an interview that it doesn’t discuss the relationship between a prospective employee and the school until there is a “formal agreement.”

[kemathen7]

But I thought Republicans hated the poor?

/sarcasm

Good for Jenna.

[KarlInOhio]

Classroom discipline is far easier with an armed Secret Service agent in the room.

[American Vet Repairman]

"discipline is far easier with an armed Secret Service agent"

Safest damn classroom in DC.

[Max Combined]

A year of teaching there will give her a real education.

[phxaz]

i hate the leeches of society. the poor generally are leeches. the poor generally hate those who are productive and provide their life. i generally hate the poor.

[Uncle Vlad]

Tax the poor!

[mrs tiggywinkle]

The article mentions it's a Charter School she'll be working for. Better than typical traditional classroom teaching, imho.

[Squantos]

I like pretty teachers....they make ya do it over and over again and again till ya get it right !

[RichInOC]

[music cue: Van Halen-"Hot For Teacher"]

[CFC__VRWC]

The article mentions it's a Charter School she'll be working for. Better than typical traditional classroom teaching, imho.

Frankly, I think Jenna Bush has exactly a zero percent chance of actually getting this job. The NEA and the DC public school system are probably already planning out the scripts of the letters and setting up the "walking around money" accounts to pay off the parents for the "grassroots protest" campaign. Has the Compost slapped together its sneering editorial denouncing this as a "political stunt" yet?

[phxaz]

why not? tax them with labor. who uses the lions share govt services in your city? productive people or poor people?

[crushelits]

Safest classroom in the USA

[dfwgator]

I've got my pencil....

[crushelits]

they make ya do it over and over again and again till ya get it right!

You mean"till ya drop"

[KenmcG414]

I'm sure she will have a security detail with her.

[johnb838]

not a real job bump.

(thanks, Tizzy, wherever you are!)

[Squantos]

LOL........If she's ugly yeah but we're talkin about a Bush twin ?

[mrs tiggywinkle]

The same thing crossed my mind, CFC.

[RichInOC]

...gimme somethin' to write on, man!