What Level Of Education Do Your Parents Have?

Reecejackox

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As we have had threads about parents jobs what about parents education

One has a degree and one left school at 16.
 

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My dad (barely) graduated high school, and then went into the Navy, which apparently counts as some kind of higher education for some jobs.

My mom went to college to be an early-special-education teacher but dropped out when she found out her degree wouldn't be recognized in California (where my dad lived) so she skipped out a few credits short to go live with my dad. She tried to pick up where she left off but was overwhelmed by the size of the community college in San Diego so she never did. Wouldn't have done much good as a Navy wife so I guess that was fine. Her dad was mad, though, because she was the first to go to college.
 

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Both were the first in their families to go to college.
 

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My father had to quit school after the 9th grade to help support his family, after his father lost a leg in an accident. My mother had a high school diploma.
 

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The three people I call parents have masters or higher but- they are in their late 70's so those degrees didn't come with overwhelming debt and took a long time to get as they were all raising children taking classes as they could. I got my bachelors degree and went (mostly full time) and worked and went into mind-boggling debt to do so.
 

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My parents were older, my father was born in 1913 and my mother in 1921. My father went to college for a year and a half. He had to drop out, there was no money left for him to continue. My mother dropped out her junior year in high school.
 

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My father was one dissertation shy of a master's degree. He went to work as a reporter. My mother attended college for one year, but had to drop out due to lack of funds. She wanted to major in music. This was back in the 1920s. A hundred years ago. Wow!
 

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One high school, the other two year degree. I was the first person on either side of my family to ever get a four year degree.
 

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Dad has a degree, and Mom has many college/trade school diplomas (she likes to learn and change things up).
My parents got married basically when my mom was finished high school and they started a family right away. So Mom didn't go back to school for her first diploma until we were older. Coincidentally, it was shortly before my parents divorced....:think:;)
 

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Both my parents have Master's degrees. They got married when they were 18 and 21 and my mom got her BA in Accounting in 1997 (she was 36) and got her Master's in Education last year after finding out that the requirements for the degree changed so she earned it from the classes she took before she dropped out 10 years ago. My dad got his BA in Labor Studies in 2000 (he was 41) and his Master's in Public Administration in 2003.

My sister and I both have BAs in Writing and Communications and my brother has a 2-year degree in something with computers. I'm starting my Master's degree in Data Intelligence and GeoAnalytics in September.
 

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My father had a BS in Electrical Engineering and my mother had a high school diploma.
 

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My adoptive mother was a law graduate but did not practice. She went to other government job and retired as a Regional Director. She is the smartest woman I know. It was from her that I first learned how to be compassionate to animals. My Adoptive father was also a university graduate and was an optometrist. He is now deceased.

My biological mother graduated from an Education degree and retired as a Teacher. My biological Dad never made it to High School (based from my very limited info) but managed a farm and did financially well.
 

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Oh, I suppose I should clarify that my dad barely graduated, not because he isn't smart---because he is very intelligent---but because he hated school with every fiber of his being and wouldn't do anything the teachers wanted him to do. I think they graduated him just to get him out of there :tongue:.
 

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Dad quit school in eighth grade to help take care of his family. That being said, he was one of the most smartest men I ever knew. His was not a book-learning knowledge. But he could take a car apart and put it back together with no trouble. He could build a house. He could fix pretty much anything I broke. He could do plumbing, do electrical work, anything in construction. The man could do anything. Whenever I had a problem, I could call him and say, "Dad? I need your help" and he'd be there in no time.

Mom did graduate from HS, but only through the sheer perseverance of my grandmother. Mom hated school; she wouldn't go, so my grandmother had to walk her back and forth. She threw her books in the river and my grandmother would have to buy her new books. She was quite the problem child. Thankfully her three children did not carry on those traits.
 
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