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Independent of any positive or negative outcomes of recess, this is not a proper role for state government. Once again, some pols can't seem to help themselves from meddling in local issues.

But Mr. St. Lawrence is onto a larger point, and that is the common practice of beaurocrats who denounce educational choice initiatives for low income children to attend private and parochial schools, while simultaneously sending their own children to these schools. And all the while extolling the virtues of public schools, so long as their own children need not be exposed to them. Barak Obama's first act as president was to genuflect at the high altar of the teachers' union by ending a DC voucher plan that allowed low income kids to attend private and parochial schools. His second act was to enroll his daughters at a private school.