My step-daughter graduated from college last Friday. It's been a long, hard seven years since she dropped out of high school. Apartments, boyfriends, minimum wage jobs, it didn't look good. Then 5 1/2 years ago, she had her son & quickly realized she couldn't do much for either of them on $6.50 an hour & no diploma. Her adviser called her "amazing." She is. She has been.
Not to say it's been easy. Not for her, not for the rest of us. Like I said, it's been a long, hard seven years. And they ended on Friday. We threw her a party yesterday, all aunts & uncles & cousins & grandparents. My wife and I worked on it all weekend. We pulled it off. Then we had last night to rest.
Today, we start the last week of the semester. And we work on getting her into graduate school.
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Teaching high school social studies in a Southwestern city.
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About Me
- swhsteacher
- Teaching is a final career change for me. I've always had the desire, but came to it late. I've been doing it a few years, now. I'm married with children and a 5-year old grandson.
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