“I think I have a separate role there as an English teacher, and that’s who I want to be,” she tells NPR’s Rachel Martin.
She has had her challenges as an educator. In one class, she had a student who was being pushed by parents into an arranged marriage, and she’s had women who have written class assignments about being abused. “Those are challenging in that you kind of have to tiptoe around,” Biden says. “But you need to provide help and support to your students.”
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