That's the sweet sound President Bill Clinton loved to hear as he whacked golf balls during his extended vacation in tony Martha's Vineyard.
Kids are disappointed.
Parents, including myself, eat their rage and scramble to home-school their children. The pols play the blame game. Julius Becton, the retired Army general appointed to run the schools, blamed the judge who ruled that school roofs had to be fixed before students arrived. Mayor Marion Barry, our very own two-bit despot, tried to play the local hero by keeping city pools open while blaming Becton for taking so long to repair the roofs. Barry has earned his reputation as a villain in the sickening decline of Washington, from calm capital when he arrived to murder capital with its unschooled children of today.