Posted on 09/17/2019 9:50:50 AM PDT by simpson96
Summer is ending, school is starting back and former First Lady Michelle Obama is reflecting on the value of her own education — and what it means that tens of millions of girls around the world still aren’t getting one.
To mark the International Day of Charity on Thursday, Obama, 55, shared a sweet throwback photo on Instagram from her own early school days — complete with bangs and a toothy grin — and encouraged her followers to do the same.
But she also urged them to go further: “It’s so easy for us to take our education for granted, especially here in the United States,” she wrote along with the photo. “Right now, more than 98 million adolescent girls around the world are not in school.”
She pointed followers to the Girls Opportunity Alliance, run by the eponymous foundation set up her and former President Barack Obama.
“I learned a lot in school—how to do my multiplication tables and structure a paragraph, yes, but also how to push myself, be a good friend, and dust myself off after a failure,” Mrs. Obama, who grew up in Chicago, wrote on Instagram.
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I want to see family pictures of Big Mike when he was pregnant.
That sounds like any other uncouth man.
Hermaphrodite...
Well, I’ll be dipped in something that starts with an “s” and isn’t sugar. I agree with Michelle Obama on something.
Two thirds of my children are daughters. Our list of “Things Girls Can Be” is a little longer than the one my wife got from her parents.
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