# Malala Yousafzai heads back to school.

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**Created:** [March 19, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malala-yousafzai-heads-back-to-school/653395 "2013-03-19T20:28:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malala-yousafzai-heads-back-to-school/653395/1 "2013-03-19T20:28:30Z")

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Her amazing recovery just gets better and better. It was barely a month ago that the surgeons [rebuilt her shattered skull](http://abcnews.go.com/International/malala-yousafzai-receive-skull-made-titanium/story?id=18351502). It was just last October when the Taliban shot her in the head.

Hearing her speak normally and walking you’d swear that she escaped any neurological damage. There had to be some permanent damage but it isn’t obvious. She’s got a huge titanium plate covering the injury.

At least now she can attend school without someone trying to kill her for being a schoolgirl. She’ll probably get a much more advanced education in Britain. Girls opportunities are limited in Pakistan.

> **[Malala Yousafzai attends first day at Edgbaston High School in Birmingham](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-21846817)**
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> Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who recovered after being shot in the head by the Taliban, attends her first day at school in the UK.

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> Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban after campaigning for girls’ rights to education, has attended her first day at school in the UK.
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> The 15-year-old was shot on a school bus in Pakistan in October.

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**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malala-yousafzai-heads-back-to-school/653395/2 "2013-03-20T08:55:47Z")

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My school! That’s my school!

_puffs out chest for school song “There is no school in all the land the rank with EHS, SiR!”_

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malala-yousafzai-heads-back-to-school/653395/3 "2013-03-20T11:55:59Z")

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Saw footage of her talking this morning - other than a certain roughness to the skin on the left side of her face and some paralysis there, I didn’t notice anything amiss. And she sounded so happy. 🙂

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**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malala-yousafzai-heads-back-to-school/653395/4 "2013-03-20T11:57:36Z")

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I hope she will feel safe ad protected. Brave girl