Children who attend private or parochial school will be excluded from the White House Easter Egg roll this year, thanks to a decision from the Obama Administration to only permit public and charter-school students to receive tickets.

(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration announced on Tuesday it has reserved 3,000 free tickets to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll for students in D.C.-area public and charter schools, but not for children who attend private or parochial schools.

The 3,000 reserved tickets will be distributed to students at 11 public schools in D.C. and a few others in Virginia and Maryland. Children at private or parochial schools in the Washington metropolitan area may attend the April 5 event, but only if they are among the people who registered for an online lottery system, by which the remaining free tickets — an estimated 27,000 — will be distributed.

So children who attend government-run and semi-government run schools are permitted to attend the White House Easter Egg roll. But if taxpayer parents decided to seek a private of religious education, their children will be punished. And this lottery the White House is talking about? Already closed.

Robert Brannum’s 17-year-old son Nicholas attends St. John’s College High School, a Catholic school in the District. Brannum told CNSNews.com he believes the 3,000 tickets reserved for public school students should be available to all students.

“The White House is a public building,” Brannum said. “The tickets are essentially being paid for with public dollars. So it should be open to everyone, not just going to select categories of students.”

Brannum said he not only supports D.C. public schools, he attended and taught at those schools. But, he added, “There are students in the District of Columbia who attend private schools, parochial schools, or even (are) home schooled, and their parents pay taxes and they should be able to participate in some of the benefits of being citizens of the District of Columbia.”

Yes but see, Obama isn’t interested in children whose education can’t be directly controlled by him and his cronies. Which explains his opposition to school choice as well. As long your child can be educated by the federal government, it doesn’t matter if she can’t tie her own shoes by high school.

The Obama administration has been criticized for failing to support programs to help low-income and minority children attend some of D.C.’s top private and parochial schools, including the Sidwell Friends School where the Malia and Sasha Obama attend classes.

Yes. Like many liberals who oppose school choice, Obama won’t even allow his own children to attend a government-run school. And I’m sure Sasha and Malia will be permitted the attend the same Easter Egg roll their fellow private school classmates are largely excluded from.