No school today, kids. The “education president” wants to entertain some rich people :

President Bush will swoop into Boston for a quick fund-raiser this afternoon that could net his campaign $1 million and also draw several thousand protesters, force the closure of a school, and disrupt traffic near the Park Plaza Hotel.
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The president’s visit unexpectedly canceled classes for 1,425 children at the Boston Renaissance Charter School, a K-8 institution on Stuart Street a block away from the hotel. The Boston Public Schools system, which provides about 30 buses to transport Renaissance students, said it could not guarantee timely pick-up of students at dismissal time, said Dudley Blodget, chief operating officer of the Renaissance School’s foundation. The school also feared that the 300 parents who pick up their children would not be able to reach the school.

“It’s a sad situation that you have to close off school because of a fund-raising event,” said Roger F. Harris, Renaissance headmaster.

Not that this is the first time that Bush has disrupted something for political purposes. Let’s not forget the aircraft carrier full of soldiers who had to delay their homecoming so they could be unpaid extras in a Bush photo-op.