The right's 60-year war on higher education

[cksmithy]

3. I was born in 1951

in to a religious family, Mormon converts, who didn't encourage any their children, male or female, to get a college degree. Girls only went to college to find a husband, and boys could get a good job if they worked hard. It is not just the right wing but the religious right (now the same thing), that doesn't want educated people that they can't control. It didn't work out for my 3 brothers. My 2 sisters, one deceased, the other a retired school bus driver. I am a girl and the only one out of 6 children who got a BA, and a Teaching Credential. Only my oldest sister, deceased, who congratulated me when I graduated, the rest of my family basically said, "So what." I didn't need to get a degree, it was for "the other people," not our family. I think it was classism, if you were rich enough to go to college, great. If not, shut up, it is not for you. It was self perpetuated classism. They would not pay for a college education, but would pay for 2 of my brothers to go on missions. It makes me sick to think about it.