Obamas Begin Move to Washington
Next First Lady and Daughters Prepare for Major Date: the First Day of School
The Obamas apparently chose Sidwell Friends school in the hopes that their daughters would stand out less. There is no celebrity culture at Sidwell. As a school that caters to the children of Washington's elite, it prides itself on treating celebrity kids like other kids, and has plenty of experience doing it.
There, the girls will walk in the footsteps of Chelsea Clinton, Albert Gore III and three granddaughters of Vice President-elect Joe Biden, an apparent selling point for the Obama girls.
"These kids are used to turning on the TV set and seeing not only their parents but all their parents' closest friends on television every night, either in positions of power or as journalists or newscasters, so that they are going to be so used to this kind of thing that they're not going to be as glamorized by the Obama girls as they might find a situation in another school," author and journalist Sally Quinn said. "They could make it as normal as possible."
Normal as possible, perhaps, but when you live at the world's most famous address, nothing is ever truly normal.
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