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Jenna Bush considers teaching in DC public school
| The Bush family continues to surprise me. Considering their connections, Jenna could get any "job" she wanted. But the fact that she's even considering taking on a job in one of the worst public school systems in the country, shows she's got moxie and class. |
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."
Jenna Bush, who is 22, holds a degree in English from the University of Texas. She has talked publicly of her desire to teach at a charter school, and last summer news reports focused on her interest in teaching in a public school in Harlem. But she deferred a decision until the conclusion of her father's campaign for president. | The kids will learn what "Don't mess with Texas" means... |
Posted by: Seafarious 2004-12-15 |
