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- <text id=93TT2308>
- <title>
- Jan. 18, 1993: Prepping Chelsea
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 18, 1993 Fighting Back: Spouse Abuse
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- NATION, Page 18
- Prepping Chelsea
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The Clintons buck their rhetoric and pick a posh school for
- their daughter
- </p>
- <p> Sidwell Friends, a prestigious Washington Quaker school,
- teaches young people the importance of simplicity. But when
- Chelsea Clinton begins classes there later this month, her life
- will be anything but simple. There'll be new friends to make,
- new teachers to impress, all under the watchful eye of
- ubiquitous attendants in bad suits and dark glasses. If that
- isn't enough, Chelsea will start out knowing that, fairly or
- not, her very presence there opens her father to the charge of
- being a hypocrite.
- </p>
- <p> When the President-elect announced that he and his wife
- had, after much discussion, finally selected Sidwell, some
- educators were quick to criticize the move as a conspicuous
- slight to the public education system Bill Clinton has so avidly
- championed and committed himself to improving. Defending the
- choice, Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos stressed that
- the Clintons "didn't reject public schools," but had made a
- personal, parental decision.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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