First lady Jill Biden surprised educators by announcing she had taught her final class at Northern Virginia Community College last week. She expressed her lifelong passion for teaching and acknowledged the honor of serving as first lady.
First lady Jill Biden announced Monday that she had taught her final class at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria last week. The surprise announcement came during a virtual “thank you” event with teachers tuning in from around the country. “Being your first lady has been the honor of my life. But being your colleague has been the work of my life,” she said. “Last Thursday, I taught my last class of the semester and my final class ever at Northern Virginia Community College.
”“I will always love this profession, which is why I continued to teach full time while serving as your first lady,” said Jill Biden, who was joined on a sofa by teachers’ union presidents Randi Weingarten, of the American Federation of Teachers and Becky Pringle, of the National Education Association. Biden had taught English and writing at NOVA for 15 years. She is the first woman to continue her professional career outside the White House while serving as first lady.It was not immediately clear whether Jill Biden, 73, was retiring from teaching altogether. Aides had no immediate comment. Northern Virginia Community College also had no comment. Jill Biden started teaching English and writing there in 2009 after Barack Obama and Joe Biden were elected president and vice president and they moved to Washington. She continued to teach there after Joe Biden’s term ended in 2017, riding the train down from their home in Delaware.Before NOVA, she also taught English and writing at Delaware Technical Community Colleg
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