2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: New Loras Poll: Sanders does better with better educated, more liberal Democrats. [View all]DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)My old man, god bless him, had a ninth grade education. He passed away when I was fourteen years old. He left my mom and I a 700 square foot home and a lot of debt. When I got out of high school I took odd jobs to get by. I sold sun tan products for Hawaiian Tropic at Daytona Beach area pools and tended bar and bounced at some biker bars at night. I could quickly see these weren't career positions so I took out student loans and went to community college. I received an A.A. From there I went on to a state university and received a B.S. , an M.A., and did post grad work in Government.
So not only was the I first person in my family to graduate from college, I was the first person in my family to go past the graduate level.
But on this site, by someone who presumably is a progressive or at least holds himself out as such, I was told I could benefit from remedial education. Ugly stuff, indeed.