Meet The Adorable Second-Graders Who Scored An Interview With President Obama
How Kansas elementary students got to interview President Obama.
— -- It’s an opportunity many professional journalists can only dream of: An interview with the president of the United States. But for a group of second-graders in Kansas, that dream has already become a reality.
A class of students from Belinder Elementary School in Prairie Village, Kansas, submitted questions to President Obama on behalf of their school newspaper, and the president answered.
“What advice do you have for second-graders and other students?” the students wrote to President Obama.
“Dream big dreams,” President Obama responded. “You are fortunate to live in a country where if you work hard, do the right thing and listen to your parents, you can be anything you want to be.”
The interview is now published in the latest edition of The Belinder School’s newspaper, “The Marbel News.”
So how exactly does a group of second-graders from Kansas land an interview with the president?
Their teacher attributes their success in part to what he calls the “the cuteness factor.” It also helped that a parent of one of the students in the class knows White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, and Earnest agreed to pass along some questions to the president’s desk.
"I thought it would be really cool to interview the president because he's, like, famous," one student said.
"I thought it was awesome, but I also thought it was too good to be true and I was just having a dream," commented another.
