The school had no football team and seemed virtually unknown among her peers.
“My dream was I wanted to be a cheerleader, homecoming queen,” Sharpe said. “At Capital City, I saw that would not be possible.”
But Capital City Public Charter School ended up providing Sharpe with something much more valuable than the chance to shake pompoms on the sidelines or don a tiara in the school gymnasium. The school provided step-by-step help with the college application process.
All that help culminated this past Friday with a chance-of-a-lifetime event to meet first lady Michelle Obama, who visited the school to encourage the Class of 2015 as they walked their college applications to a mail bin as part of the school’s second annual “College March.”
Sharpe said the experience of meeting the first lady in person made it worth forgoing the chance to be a cheerleader or homecoming queen.
“I could not think. All I knew is that I was approaching one of the most important ladies in the whole world,” Sharpe recalled of the moment when she — along with the rest of the Class of 2015 at Capital City — got a hearty hug from the first lady.
