. . . Mercer Island Senior High School opened in the 1950s, Q: what did island kids do for high school before it opened? Q: When did St. Monicas open? In 1956, Dunhams family moved to Mercer Island, an Eastside suburb of Seattle. Dunhams parents wanted their 13-year-old daughter to attend the newly opened Mercer Island High School. At the school, teachers Val Foubert and Jim Wichterman taught the importance of challenging social norms and questioning authority to the young Dunham, and she took the lessons to heart: She felt she didnt need to date or marry or have children. One classmate remembered her as intellectually way more mature than we were and a little bit ahead of her time, in an off-center way, and a high school friend described her as knowledgeable and progressive: If you were concerned about something going wrong in the world, Stanley would know about it first. We were liberals before we knew what liberals were. Another called her the original feminist ~ Wikipedia on Obamas Mama. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham#Early_life
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