Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

Forging a new path: US First Lady goes to wor

- Associated Press

Jill Biden is going back to her whiteboard.

After months of teaching writing and English to community college students in boxes on a computer screen, the first lady resumes teaching in person on Tuesday from a classroom at Northern Virginia Community College, where she has worked since 2009.

She is the first ever first lady to leave the White House and log hours at a full-time job.

“There are some things you just can’t replace, and I can’t wait to get back in the classroom,” she recently told Good Housekeepi­ng magazine.

The first lady has been anxious to see her students in person after more than a year of virtual teaching brought on by a pandemic.

A working first lady is a “big deal”, said Tammy Vigil, a Boston University communicat­ions professor who wrote a book about former first ladies Michelle Obama and Melania Trump.

The nation’s early first ladies did not work outside the home, especially when home was the White House. They supported their husbands, raised children and performed the role of h ess. Some first ladies acte special ambassador­s for t husbands. Hillary Clinton Michelle Obama were wor mothers who decided aga continuing their careers in White House.

Jill Biden, 70, is forging a path for herself and her suc sors. The first lady has said always wanted to be a ca woman. She taught at the ginia community college du the eight years that her husb was vice-president and wa going to give it up. “Teac isn’t just what I do. It’s w am,” she has said.

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