Keepin' It Classy with Michelle Obama

I hope I, too, can be a classy, intelligent, compassionate woman.

At Anacostia High, where children walk through metal detectors every day and only 21 percent of students read proficiently last year, Tiara Chance, 18, was surprised that Mrs. Obama had decided to visit.

“We don’t deserve it,” she said. “People are fighting and cussing all the time around here. Who would want to be around that?”

At Mary’s Center, a health clinic that serves a predominantly immigrant community, Akrem Muzemil, 16, who dreams of becoming an engineer, asked the first lady flat out, “Like, why did you want to come out here to meet us?”

Mrs. Obama told him, “I think it’s real important for young kids, particularly kids from communities without resources, to see me.” ...

At a school’s celebration of Cinco de Mayo this month, the first lady urged students to get to know the Capitol and the White House.

“That space is your space,” Mrs. Obama said. “It’s your democracy, as much as it is anyone else’s.”

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I am very excited to see this.