This just in.
Harriet Richardson Ames fulfilled a lifelong dream by completing her bachelor's degree in education. She reached the milestone 3 weeks after her 100th birthday.
Someone should have told her she could have been a doctor by now. ( a la David Spade to Chris Farley in Blacksheep.)
Turns out this lady was a retired teacher.
Why had she been teaching all these years if she is just NOW getting her bachelor’s?
I think this says a lot about our public education system.
Evidently, when she became a teacher, you only had to have a 2 year degree.
Additionally, you had to own your own wooly mammoth for transportation.
No, but she did teach in a one-room school house.
She also served as principal, which she was probably over qualified for.
Mrs. Ames was given her diploma at her hospice bedside prior to her death on Saturday.
Now there was a lady with a plan of how to get out of paying back her student loans.
Boy is she in for a stark realization. I hear in heaven, just like on earth, not only are teaching jobs in short supply, but the pay sucks there too.
Plus, she’ll be required to obtain her Masters within five years of arriving.
27 comments:
She had to ride that Woolly Mammoth uphill both ways.
over qualified indeed.
Dude, I think she had the right idea!!! Hmmmmm.. I will probably land my dream job on my deathbed.
You are a very bad man Ed!
But there might be something to your logic! :D
Yeah...that's tough...real tough. Holly
Remind me if I get that old, not to do something like that.
Just give me booze and cigarettes, which I quit 17 and 15 years ago.
So THAT's how you get out of paying student loans!
I hate all these old farts that are underqualified keeping jobs from amazing people like me!
I wonder if she went out for cheerleading while working on her diploma?
"Raw, Ra...(cough, cough)ah, Raw...Zip, Boom, Ba...Ugh"
"Medic, cheerleader down. Stat!"
Yeah but once she gets tenure they can never kick her out.
She could take a dump on the Pearly Gates while tongue kissing Joan of Arc and there's nothing God could do about it,
I wonder if she had to ride that mammoth up hill both ways in the snow?
OMG, no way can I beat that first comment. Mad props, yo.
OH dear baby zombie jesus. You are going straight to hell. Whew.. I thought I was the only one. See you there. Laughing all the way.
She always said "I'm going to get my degree if it's the last thing I do!" Extra credit for getting it right.
That's the best time to get your degree. When you're retired. When you're just about to drop dead.
One of my granparents friends does that. She's running around doing all these courses that interest her because in Australia, you don't have to pay it back until your income is about $38,000 and now that she's retired, she's racking up a huge bill.
She'll have to show that's she's a Highly Qualified Teacher somehow..... PLUS I bet she'll still have Merit Pay.....
Oh dear Lord! I had a hard enough time going back to get my Masters when I was 3 years out from my BS. (Don't make a joke about BS...it's too easy...you're better than that.) I cannot IMAGINE going back that late in life! How could she write papers with her shaky arthritic hand?! God bless her educated soul.
I'd still do her.
All of a sudden I find myself humming Alanis Morisette's "Ironic"..
Wow. What did she teach? Yeah, I can't even come up with a joke. Damn it.
If she's still teaching in the afterlife, that isn't Heaven.
Old people are funny...
And smell slighlty of ben gay and death...
Hehe
Ben GAY
!!!! that's insane
Oh the froth I could spew on the topic if education...
I'll leave the froth spewing to the pro....you and rosie do have a date tonight, don't you?!?
How did she finish finals in a hospice. Somebody was cheating...
*feeling the fires of hell burning my ass*
It's wrong that I'm laughing at this isn't it?
As long as we don't hurt people, than any kind of humor is good!
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