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President Obama tells students at MLK Charter he's proud
THE TIMES-PICAYUNE. OCTOBER 15, 2009. By Bill Barrow
Addressing students at his first stop in New Orleans since taking office nine months ago, the nation's first African-American president told students at Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School that he is proud of their work, but expects them to keeping working hard to meet high standards.
President Barack Obama pauses to chat with a little boy during his visit to Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in the Lower 9th Ward Thursday, October 15, 2009. "When I was growing up, I didn't have my father at home, we weren't rich, we didn't have a lot," Obama said. "But the one thing my parents told me that if I worked hard in school, if I loved to read, if I loved math, there was nothing I couldn't do."
The president said he was pleased to see a bustling school where he had seen a devastated neighborhood after Hurricane Katrina.
"I remember four years ago, right after the storm, a lot of people felt forgotten," he said.
