I think the point of the story is that it’s extremely odd that a teenager with a newborn decides to go to school thousands of miles away from her new husband and family/support system.
Think about the logistics of attending classes, caring for a newborn, etc.
Weird, weird, weird.
Sounds like she wanted to get away, bad. This is VERY odd.
It IS weird.
I mean, certainly the baby would need to see a pediatrician once he got to Seattle, within a month of birth.... followups, and of course Stanley would need the episiotomy stitches removed.... and I suppose the staff would want to see hospital records from where she birthed in Hawaii...
Seems like a LOT of strain to put yourself under right after giving birth for the first time.
I think the point of the story is that it’s extremely odd that a teenager with a newborn decides to go to school thousands of miles away from her new husband and family/support system.
Think about the logistics of attending classes, caring for a newborn, etc.
Weird, weird, weird.
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BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!! She didn’t leave HI. She didn’t have him there, end of story.
That's probably why, as the transcript shows, she only took two classes, and those through the extension institute, which likely means night classes, perhaps with a friend or friends also going to school at U Washington, watching Barack on the (likely) two nights a week she attended classes. She did the same the next term. Of those four course she got a B and 3 A's. Only in the third term, Spring '62 did she take regular classes. Even then it appears that was "too much" as she appears to have withdrawn from one of the classes, "PW" passing-withdrew, but then continued to audit the class, meaning she would have needed to do any homework or take the tests, although she could have done either or both.