So much squealing and excitement that one staffer marveled, "This is like the Beatles." [View all]

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Stopped by a D.C. public school to shake hands with some pretty impressive eighth graders on their first day.

“Oh, my God, it’s really you!” shouted a student at Eliot-Hine Middle School in Northeast Washington, where President Biden stopped by Monday to mark the new school year. There was so much squealing and excitement that one staffer marveled, “This is like the Beatles.”

Biden, accompanied by first lady Jill Biden, first visited the lunchroom — where a big banner touted the school’s valued traits of “excellence, responsibility, integrity and communications.” Then they dropped by an eighth-grade math class at the 300-student campus.

In the classroom, decorated with colorful posters that displayed math symbols and the order of operations, one student proclaimed loudly, “Joe Biden!” The president hugged one excited child and talked about whether she could someday become president.

“He just started talking and giving them some inspiration,” she said. He told everyone he had been bullied when he was younger because he was small and would stutter. “He was very personable,” Thomas added. Both the president and first lady shook every child’s hand.

read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/28/joe-biden-school-visit-dc/

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President Biden and the first lady drop by a D.C. middle school math class to welcome back students
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