What level of education do your parents have?

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Masters and Bachelors

 

[monarchsfan16]

My parents are in their early 60s. Both have their Masters. Mom's is in education, dad's is in engineering.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

My father has a bachelors degree; my mother a masters.

 

[indimom]

My dad went to school through second grade. But, then refused to go. If they dropped him off, he would turn around and walk home. His mom taught him at home while he worked the farm. He passed some sort of seventh grade equivalency test.

My mother finished high school.

I agree with pp who stated our parents ages make a difference in this thread. My parents are in their late 70s. They were both raised on farms and college wasn't even a blip on their radar. Out of all their siblings, only one has a college degree. Honestly, degrees are still a little slim among my generation/cousins, probably about 50/50.

 

[jump00]

Great question - so much history

 

[Lilacs4Me]

Both graduated high school without any fanfare or big achievements. My father took a class here and there at the local community college, but it never went anywhere. He worked as a mailman until he retired. My mother was the typical girl growing up in the 60's in a large Polish/Irish Catholic family- she wasn't expected to do or achieve much more than find a husband, get married and raise a bunch of kids, and that's exactly what she did. She and my father got divorced 15 years later, then she went on to have a fairly decent career as an office manager for a doctor office. She will retire this year. Not too bad for a girl who couldn't have cared less about getting an education (at the time) and graduated high school as the most average, non-achieving person there can be.

DH's mom was one of those kids from the 60's that was passed along in each grade when she got too big for the class and the teachers didn't know what to do with her anymore so they just moved her to the next grade. She was well-behaved but wasn't learning anything due to undiagnosed learning disabilities. She didn't make it past 8th grade. His Dad came from another country and I have no idea what kind of formal education he had but I know he is one of the smartest people I know!

 

[mjkacmom]

Dad - boarding prep school/BS Princeton chemical engineering/MBA Columbia
Mom - only two years of college

I think she is the only person in our family without post secondary college education.

ETA, if they were still alive they would be in their late 70’s.

 

[Kitty 34]

My Dad has his PHD and Mom has her Masters. Schooling was very important to my parents. I remember my Dad being concerned over an A minus I received one time.

 

[scrhsa]

Dad dropped out as a jr in highschool. Got a GED for the Navy. Spent a couple of year there.
Mom graduated highschool. By the time she retired she had worked her way up from a P. E. assistant to the Jr. High principals secretary and running the show

 

[wilbret]

Bachelor's degrees for both. Farmer and a teacher.

 

[georgina]

Education does not always equal a good job or wealth. And if you look at it a lot of people go to school and then end up doing NOTHING with the degree.

That's me! I have a chemical engineering degree. Worked 5 years and HATED it. However I paid for my college myself and don't regret it, just wish I had majored in math and become an actuary, would have suited me much better.

 

[design_mom]

My mom got her high school diploma, but no college.

My dad got his high school diploma and started college. However, then his father died, so he was forced to drop out, get a job and take care of his mother.

 

[Gary M]

Both left school at 16. This was in the 1930's.

 

[dhardawa]

Both have master’s degrees.

 

[DietCoke18]

My mom got her masters. My dad graduated high school.

 

[Praying Colonel]

My father had a HS diploma, and my mother completed 1 year of college.

 

[TavieP]

My mom had a bachelor's, my dad dropped out of college after a few semesters.

 

[OneOftheB's]

My dad's degree is in engineering with a minor in history (his true love) and my mom had a specialist degree in education. I have a copy of her dissertation that was required for her specialist degree.

 

[Hrhpd]

Mother - 87. PhD psychology. Summa Cum Laude from an Ivy league as an immigrant and mother of 2 children. Undergrad from the Sorbonne.

Father - 97. PhD Physics or whatever the equivalent was called in his home country.

 

[BrinkofSunshine]

Both of my parents have their Bachelor’s; mom with theatre and my dad with business. My grandmother, great grandmother, and even great-great grandmother (1800’s) all went to college.