Just in time for Nursing Home-coming.

So, it's like an honorary degree for being old?

HS diplomas really are useless nowadays.

Assuming you still have any hair to cut.

So grandma, what are your future goals now that you're done with school?

-Not dying...

Sovereign110: So, it's like an honorary degree for being old?

HS diplomas really are useless nowadays.

Especially as it is from Chicago Public Schools.

I think it's sweet - she regrets not having the paper, and her family arranged it. She took enough coursework and had enough general experience to qualify as a high school graduate, I would think.

Over the following decades she moved to the suburb of Gurnee and had 15 children, 54 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren.

Please don't reward stupidity.

And saying "times were different then" and "she left school to help her family" doesn't change the fact.

Does the recent grad have an onion on the belt?

Benevolent Misanthrope: I think it's sweet - she regrets not having the paper, and her family arranged it. She took enough coursework and had enough general experience to qualify as a high school graduate, I would think.

I guess, but what's the point if they just give it to you?

Britney Spear's Speculum: Please don't reward stupidity.

And saying "times were different then" and "she left school to help her family" doesn't change the fact.

this

You leave school to 'help your family' yet you keep shiatting them out like a farking assembly line? You don't need a hs diploma to figure out something like this.

Dirty Hot Linker: Britney Spear's Speculum: Please don't reward stupidity.

And saying "times were different then" and "she left school to help her family" doesn't change the fact.

this

You leave school to 'help your family' yet you keep shiatting them out like a farking assembly line? You don't need a hs diploma to figure out something like this.

Depends on the locale. In a lot of farming communities, more kids = more help that you don't have to pay. Same thing with the Depression- if there was a job, you went and grabbed it. My grandfather graduated at 20 for just that reason (should have been class of '34, was class of '36).

15 goddamn kids?

jmr61: 15 goddamn kids?

15 kids back before birth control didn't mean you was a moran, it meant you put out.

I thought it was IL, not Ill.

I'm as snarky as the rest but can't you just enjoy the sweetness of a gesture like this? I think it's awesome.

It's "Get a haircut and get a real job, subby
George Thorogood fan
//but what would I know, I'm just a Sweet little Lady called Christine with either The Summertime Blues or the Madison Blues. I'm not from Memphis Tennessee though or I would be making Tennessee Plates. I feel like Joe Dirt with a Blues Hangover after drinking one Bourbon, one Scotch, one Beer. I think I better be Long Gone on Highway 49 as I'm going to the gym in 26 minutes
Ride on Josephine

Bart?

Oh for god's sake, let her have the diploma, tassel, and walk across the stage. There's a lot worse people could be doing than that.

Her Fark handle?

/obligatory

Was it a GED in Law?

Britney Spear's Speculum: Over the following decades she moved to the suburb of Gurnee and had 15 children, 54 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren.

Please don't reward stupidity.

And saying "times were different then" and "she left school to help her family" doesn't change the fact.

It's possible she was able to support that large of a family if the younger children were born when the older ones were able to work. As a previous poster put it, more kids = more workers = more income.

Having 15 children is only bad if you need social services or charity to help carry the burden, and it's possible that wasn't the case.

Ahem.

Congratulations, now get a haircut, and get a real job

Get a haircut, and get a real job.
Clean your act up, and don't be a slob.
Get it together like your big brother Bob.
Get a haircut, and get a real job.

/Bob's 102

musashi1600: Having 15 children is only bad if you need social services or charity to help carry the burden, and it's possible that wasn't the case.

shut your whore mouth you failtard. that argument is old and as tired as this woman from TFA.


Who has to offset the cost of the insurance premiums for this woman and her kids when they have to go to the hospital? Other members. Part of the reason why health care is so expensive is because people have a ton of kids and employers have to cover the crotch droppings.

Get a haircut, and get a real job.
Clean your catheter, don't be a slob.
Get diabeetus like your dead brother Bob.
Get a haircut, and get a real job.

/too morbid?

Came for the George Thorogood reference, left happy.

and mow the damned lawn you're always telling everybody to get off of.

I would think you would be too embarrassed to actually bother to show up to the ceremony. I wouldn't want anyone to know I didn't have a high school diploma - and then my silly do-gooder family got me into national news for being handed the equivalent of a GED? No thank you.

Kumana Wanalaia: Was it a GED in Law?

This bears repeating.

Isn't this a repeat from 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, and 1997?

Jaysus, how dumb do yo have to be to repear the 10th grade 75 times?

you_idiot: Jaysus, how dumb do yo have to be to repear the 10th grade 75 times?

lol

Wow, a lot of stupid young farkers here.
Back in the days, women had a lot of kids because fertility was difficult. Many women struggled to get pregnant, and many mothers died from childbirth. On top of that, children were not expected to live long enough to see adulthood, so it was worth having a few backups. Children also made excellent free farmhands, back in the days before child labor laws made them useless money pits.

Of course, cityfolk children are less than useless, which is why it only makes sense to have 1-3 of them, and typically by accident.