Mogue Wisniewski
History will recall President Biden at his inauguration urging unity in a deeply divided nation confronting a raging pandemic, growing inequity, systemic racism and a climate crisis.
But sitting at a kitchen table in Philadelphia, a 13-year-old boy named Mogue Wisniewski, wasn’t watching the ceremony in Washington. In a sign of the times, the seventh grader at the Philadelphia Academy Charter School was looking at his laptop, remotely attending math class.
“I’m not that interested in politics,” he said earlier this week when asked about Biden.
But years from now, perhaps when he is a student in college, he may recall this cold January day that transformed his life when a new president, who has vowed to make tuition free at public colleges for families like Wisniewski s, was sworn in.