President Biden, first lady honor teachers at the White House

President Joe Biden and archetypal woman Jill Biden recognized the 2020 and 2021 National Teachers of the Year astatine the White House connected Monday.

The president was a peculiar impermanent astatine the event, which was primitively scheduled to diagnostic his wife, who is besides a teacher, and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.

“You know, erstwhile you deliberation astir it, the single-most consequential radical successful the world, beyond our parents — God willing, if we person them — is our teachers,” Biden said.

Prior to the president’s peculiar appearance, the archetypal woman praised teachers for educating children during a challenging time.

“You and teachers similar you person recovered the courageousness and spot to support going,” the archetypal woman said.

Juliana Urtubey, a peculiar acquisition teacher from Las Vegas, Nevada and Tabatha Rosproy, preschool teacher successful Winfield, Kansas, received apple-shaped awards for being named National Teacher of the Year.

Previously scheduled ceremonies were delayed owed to the pandemic.