Obama girls go to a new school in Washington

by Yuliya Talmazan | January 5, 2009 at 03:52 pm

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The daughters of US President-Elect Barack Obama Sasha and Malia attended their new Washington school for the first time today. They will be attending an elite private school not far from the White House. Obamas have insisted they wanted to make the transition from Chicago to Washington as seamless as possible for their girls.

President-elect Barack Obama and his family are now full-fledged D.C. residents, moving into a grand downtown hotel over the weekend so that Sasha and Malia Obama could start their first day at an elite private school once attended by Chelsea Clinton.

Seven-year-old Sasha beamed from the back of an SUV Monday morning as she and her sister, Malia, were driven to their new school - Sidwell Friends on Wisconsin Avenue, about a 15-minute drive from the White House in northwest Washington.

Images of her smiling face were aired repeatedly on NBC's "The Today Show" even as anchor Matt Lauer told viewers the network was respecting the girls' privacy by not camping out outside the school.