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President Obama made a surprise visit to a White House question and answer session with student journalists Thursday, and told his young audience that he was a “slacker” in high school.
“I can tell you guys were high-achieving, Type A folks,” Obama said to the university students Thursday. “Unlike the kind of slacker kid that I was.”
Obama made the remark while outlining his plans for college affordability. Obama said that college credit classes offered in public high schools are one way to cut down college costs. But he also conceded that had such courses existed in his high school days, “slacker kid” Obama wouldn’t have been one of the students signed up for them.
“What we have seen is a number of high school systems partner with community colleges and universities so that they make arrangements — you start to take your college credits in high school,” Obama said. “You have enough credits so that you can graduate in three years, instead of four.”