Boston News Bytes: Nigerian Sisters Make Local History
How’s this for inspiring? The Boston Herald reports that two teenage Dorchester residents, sisters born in Nigeria, will become permanent parts of Boston history on Tuesday. Why? Because they’re pretty darn smart. So smart, in fact, they will each serve as the valedictorian of their respective high school classes at graduation ceremonies held tomorrow. Thus, the record is for achieving that goal in the same year, something never managed before by siblings in Boston.
The Nwoaha sisters, 18-year-old Chioma and 16-year-old Faith, moved to the United States from West Africa’s Nigeria less than three years ago. They both attended boarding schools in their native country, which might have a bit to do with their obviously exemplary academic skills.
Chioma, who intends to pursue biology at Northeastern University, is the senior class valedictorian at English High School, and Faith, who aims to become a premed student with a double major in biology and math at Boston University, earned the same honor at Jeremiah Burke High School.
The accomplished sisters will join the city’s 36 other high school valedictorians at a lunch tomorrow with Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who reveals that more than one-third of the high school valedictorians this year were born outside of the United States.
It’s nice to hear such impressive news about young people and education instead of all the negatives concerning inept teachers, lazy and/or violent students, mandatory testing, social pressures, escalating college costs, and whatnot. Best of luck to all of this year’s graduates, no matter what their class rank.
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