WATERFORD, PA (AP) – Jill Biden sees a learning moment in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic.
The first lady sat in a distant social circle in the library at Fort LeBoeuf High School in Pennsylvania, listening and taking notes, while parents expressed relief that the school had reopened and their children were back in class.
One mother talked about the “bad patches” of online learning and said the reopening “was so from T” that she doesn’t worry about her son and daughter. Another mother said that the district includes the contribution of parents and that she feels comfortable that her children are in a “safe environment”.
Professor Biden himself praised the small circle of parents, teachers and administrators for working together to help reopen Fort LeBoeuf. She also repeated a message she sent earlier that day while visiting Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Meriden, Connecticut.
“I’ve been through some very difficult times, but I think the only good thing about the educators I love – and that includes the canteen workers, the bus drivers, the teachers, everyone involved – is that we’ve all learned from this.” Biden told about the pandemic and its emotional, social and human value.
“We will all take everything we have learned and turn it into an opportunity to do better for students as we move forward,” she said.
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The first lady seems intent on turning every aspect of her new job into an opportunity, especially anything related to her threefold passions for education, fighting cancer and supporting military families.
A few days after she became the first lady, Biden told the governors’ wives during a virtual meeting at the White House that her new platform was “one I would never let go.”
She has long focused on education, teaching at a high school, a psychiatric hospital and community colleges for more than three decades. He still teaches, practically from the White House, and thinks about the day when he can return to class.
Finding a cure for cancer motivates her and President Joe Biden.
The couple lost their son Beau to brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46. Her parents died of cancer, and one of her sisters underwent a stem cell transplant. Doctors also gave the dreaded breast cancer diagnosis to four of her girlfriends over a one-year period in the 1990s.
The Bidenians also plead for members of the service and their families, an appreciation that results from Beau Biden’s service in the Delaware Army National Guard, including a deployment in Iraq. Jill Biden intends to revive a military family support program she ran with former First Lady Michelle Obama when Biden’s husband was Vice President Barack Obama.
Jill Biden quickly set her agenda as a first lady, highlighting all three causes for a long time in her first weeks.
She was busy with virtual meetings, taught English at community college, traveled officially, did errands in the Washington area, and placed the family’s dogs in the White House. Even the light blue scrunchie he wore on his hair went viral.
Biden, known for spring surprises and practical jokes, also intends to inject some weight into things, while her husband faces discouraging crises: He wakes her up to show him the huge hearts he had displayed on the lawn in front of the House White on Valentine’s Day.
“It started quickly and I think it’s very solid,” said Myra Gutin, author of “The President’s Partner: The First Lady of the 20th Century.”
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The first lady also maintains a robust travel schedule, despite the pandemic.
Her first official outing was to a nonprofit community health center in Washington to highlight services for cancer patients. From there, he made a detour to personally deliver chocolate chip cookies to National Guard troops. stationed at the US Chapter.
He recently traveled to Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond to visit his Massey Cancer Center. in which researchers study the socioeconomic and cultural factors that contribute to disparities in cancer outcomes.
The first lady remarked on Monday at the virtual ceremony of the international awards for courage women of the State Department before jumping on a plane to spend Tuesday and Wednesday visiting U.S. military facilities in Washington and California.
Biden also met with teachers’ union leaders, the wives of defense officials and governors, military children and their teachers, and government cancer researchers, among others. She sent pre-recorded remarks to several conferences and recorded a public service advertisement with Champ and Major, the German family shepherds, urging people to wear face masks.
Tammy Vigil, author of “Melania and Michelle: The First Ladies in a New Age,” said Biden’s experience as the husband of a longtime U.S. senator and vice president was an asset that helped her form quickly. a staff. He also didn’t need time to figure out the issues he wanted to focus on.
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Looks like there are no incognito commissions for Jill Biden.
Unlike some recent first ladies who tried to hide their identities at unofficial outings in the Washington area, as Michelle Obama once did at a Target shopping store, Jill Biden comes out like her.
Stephen Bota said he knew a VIP visit had begun when US intelligence agents showed up unannounced at his DuPont Circle kiosk in late January, but let him guess who it was. A few hours later, Jill Biden enters the door.
“I was kind of ‘God, she’s the first lady,'” Bota, a Kenyan immigrant who owns The Newsroom, recalled in an interview. He and his employees – only his wife and sister-in-law – are shown in a photo with the first lady now on display in the store.
“I told him we were so grateful he came to see us,” Bota said.
Biden also bought coffee at Brewer’s Cafe in Richmond and confectionery at The Sweet Lobby on Capitol Hill, both owned by black. The president, in turn, stopped his highway after church on a Sunday for his son Hunter Biden to pick up a bagel order.
“It looks more welcoming,” Vigil said, noting that everyone can refer to the task.
With the acquisitions, Bidenii seems to be an encouraging support for small businesses, which generate most of the jobs in the US, but are struggling to survive the pandemic.
They also seem to signal that they will participate in the life of the city.
Former President Donald Trump only went to his hotel near the White House or his golf club in northern Virginia. For dinner in a city with a robust restaurant scene, he opted to dine exclusively at the hotel restaurant. His wife, Melania Trump, kept any outing in the Washington area unofficially under radar.
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After Jill Biden launched a photo with her at The Sweet Lobby, the boutique bakery wasn’t the only thing that became an instant hit.
The powdery blue scratch that supported the first lady’s hair went viral.
Biden said he had no idea until Ashley’s daughter called to tell her.
“I said, ‘What the fuck?’ “I didn’t know what he was talking about,” first lady told presenter Kelly Clarkson during a White House interview. “I still don’t understand.”