Second Lady Usha Vance, who has largely stayed out of the spotlight, recently appeared at Cherokee Classical Academy in Canton, Georgia, to address the importance of books.

Vance was at the school to promote her Summer Reading Challenge.

During her speech, she encouraged students to put down the electronics and instead replace them with books!

Fox News shared more details on Usha Vance’s :

America’s students should put down their phones and read a book or embrace other activities instead, second lady Usha Vance urged this week as she shared an “eye-opening” personal revelation about “how literacy is faring in the United States.”

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She chose reading as her summer initiative, Vance told Fox News Digital, after she was inspired by her middle child’s interest in reading from watching his older brother.

“He wanted to read, and he wanted me to teach him to read,” she said in an interview.

“That took me down a rabbit hole of trying to understand how one teaches reading… and it was really eye-opening,” she added. She and her husband, Vice President JD Vance, have three children.

“It’s a little harder, and that requires you to focus just a bit more… so later, you can focus on what really matters,” she said.

“I think it’s a pretty hard time right now for a lot of people because we all have these iPhones and iPads – all these things that kind of draw your attention away,” she added.

“We all have these iPhones and iPads — all these things that draw your attention away.”

Her comments came during her latest event in her 2025 Summer Reading Challenge. The Cherokee Classical Academy is a “low-tech learning environment” that enforces a strict no cellphones during the school day policy, a school official told Fox News Digital.

She even read a patriotic book to the students:

More clips of her visit:

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To learn more about Usha Vance’s Summer Reading Challenge, click the following link: White House Summer Reading Challenge

 

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