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The First Lady goes to High School, inspires students

Published March 20, 2009 by MediaEatOut

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Michelle Obama at the Anacostia High School in Washington,DC on Thursday , encourages the students to press forward to college.

 

This is a short article by Rachel L. Swarns

Michelle Obama left the glittering splendor of the White House on Thursday to visit one of the poorest neighborhoods in the capital to push, prod and inspire struggling high school students.

Her visit to a public school was the start of a star-studded career day organized by Mrs. Obama, who said she had long dreamed of gathering an “amazing group of women” to talk to young people.

On Thursday, the first lady and 21 other women — including the singers Sheryl Crow and Alicia Keys; the former astronaut Mae C. Jemison; Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody of the Army, the first female four-star general; the actor Alfre Woodard and the makeup maven Bobbi Brown — scattered to public and private schools across the region in honor of Women’s History Month.

At Anacostia High School, Mrs. Obama gave hugs, slapped knees and sat down in a semicircle with 13 students, who were all juniors and seniors. And when one girl asked, “How did you get where you are now?” the first lady told her story.

“There’s no magic to being here,” Mrs. Obama said. “What I want you to know is that my parents were working-class people.”

Mrs. Obama told the students that she attended public schools because her parents could not afford private schools. She said she took pride in getting good grades, even though that was not always popular in her neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.

“I wanted to be the person who had the right answer and I didn’t care whether it was cool,” Mrs. Obama said. “I remember there were kids around my neighborhood who would say, ‘Ooo, you talk like a white girl.’ I heard that growing up my whole life. I was like, ‘I don’t even know what that means.’ But you know what? I’m still getting my A’s.”

The students piped up with a flurry of comments and questions.

One girl told Mrs. Obama that her husband was cute. (The first lady concurred.) Another asked about making the transition from high school to college. (It is not difficult if you prepare yourself now, the first lady advised.)

“You do your own makeup everyday?” asked another. (Not on special occasions like this one, the first lady said.) “You put your own clothes on?” (Yes, Mrs. Obama said with a smile.)

I cried: Ty’Sheoma Bethea letter!

Published February 25, 2009 by MediaEatOut

This is a touching video.  My eyes welled up with real tears,

as President Obama talked about the letter, yep the one from the  student , Ty’ Sheoma Bethea.

Did you read the letter? I read the letter , and the grammar  was not all that , for an 8th grader. Not that I’m ‘ The Great Typer’ or anything myself. But I blame the teachers, even if the school is dilapidated.

Michelle Obama celebrate Black History Month

Published February 22, 2009 by MediaEatOut

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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE – WASHINGTON (AP) — Foot-stomping music filled the East Room of the White House on Wednesday as first lady Michelle Obama hosted nearly 200 schoolchildren for a Black History Month celebration featuring Sweet Honey in the Rock, an award-winning female a cappella ensemble.

Mrs. Obama seemed a bit surprised when the sixth- and seventh-graders from three local schools said yes, they knew slaves helped build the White House, that President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation upstairs in a bedroom named for him, and that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders met in the building with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to discuss the end of segregation.

“So you guys know your history. That’s a good thing,” she said. “That means your parents and teachers are doing their jobs.”

Mrs. Obama encouraged them to look beyond the names in the history books and to “think about the extraordinary people who live in your own world,” like parents, grandparents and teachers, “all those folks who play important roles in black history and American history every single day.”

She said they will write history’s next chapter and they should work hard every day, always put their best foot forward, even when no one is looking, and support their families at home by making their beds, putting away dishes and cleaning their rooms.

“That’s part of the preparation,” said Mrs. Obama, whose daughters, Malia and Sasha, sat in the front row with her mother, Marian Robinson.

Before Mrs. Obama spoke, the students listened as retired Rear Adm. Stephen Rochon told his own story. In 2007, Rochon became the first black man to be named chief usher at the White House and director of the executive residence.

President Barack Obama and the first lady have talked about opening up the White House and making it more accessible to the public.

Wednesday’s event with Sweet Honey in the Rock, a Grammy Award-winning ensemble, was the first with a student audience, including some whose parents are members of the White House’s professional staff. The students attend Shaw and Stuart-Hobson middle schools, and KIPP DC: KEY Academy, a charter school. michellemichelle

It’s so nice to said Michelle Obama doing saome normals things, even if it’s a publicity stunt(which I doubt). This was Thrusday 2/19/09 :)

Paul Mulshine:”How did Michelle Obama ever survive Princeton?

Published February 10, 2009 by MediaEatOut

How did Michelle ever survive Princeton?

Posted by Paul Mulshine February 09, 2009 11:26PM

President Obama at his first press conference on the need to spend federal money building new schools:

“Well, I visited a school down in South Carolina that was built in the 1850s. Kids are still learning in that school, as best they can …”

Kids are still earning at Princeton, too, as best they can. Michelle Obama seems to have done pretty well. But some of the buildings there are more than a century older than that South Carolina school.

And do those English kids realize how old the buildings at Oxford are? If only they knew, they could apply for federal stimulus money.

And if old buildings are so bad, just why did Obama want to live in the White House?

 This was Paul Mulshine words, what do you think of his post?

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