106-year-old woman finally gets high school diploma
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A 106-year-old central Ohio woman who completed classes but didn't graduate in a dispute over a book has received her high school diploma.
The News Journal in Mansfield reports the Mount Vernon superintendent presented Reba Williams with the diploma Wednesday at her apartment in Columbus. She even got to wear a traditional graduation cap brought by the retired Mount Vernon English teacher who urged the school board to award the diploma.
Williams has said she completed high school in Mount Vernon but was denied her diploma because she refused to read a final book assigned by a teacher. She'd read the book once and didn't want to read it again.
Williams says she hopes current students realize that learning is important and that they probably shouldn't follow her example.
The News Journal in Mansfield reports the Mount Vernon superintendent presented Reba Williams with the diploma Wednesday at her apartment in Columbus. She even got to wear a traditional graduation cap brought by the retired Mount Vernon English teacher who urged the school board to award the diploma.
Williams has said she completed high school in Mount Vernon but was denied her diploma because she refused to read a final book assigned by a teacher. She'd read the book once and didn't want to read it again.
Williams says she hopes current students realize that learning is important and that they probably shouldn't follow her example.
This record won't stand long, a lot of kids in high school now will take at least that long to graduate.
I hear she was voted most likely to succeed.Â
"She'd read the book once and didn't want to read it again. "
Seems pretty stubborn to me. Just read it.
She looks a lot brighter than some of the kids I went to high school with..
She should probably take a year off before going to college. You know, to "find" herself ;-)
She's gonna need that sheepskin when she goes out looking for a job.
Nice.
A stubborn student versus a stubborn teacher. Both were wrong and Reba gets it in advising kids not to do what she did.
Glad this happened.
Now she can go on to college after all these years.
Happy Graduation Ms. Williams!
Does this mean she can now attend the Senior Prom?
Why? Oh WHY do they have a "'93" on her tassel? Couldn't they find an '05 or at least a '13?
It symbolizes 93 years since she should have graduated.
Now she can go out and get a job!!
(I'm kidding.)Â
Oh man you beat me to it. Good for her. I wonder if she will make the 10 year class reunion?
Good for her. But imagine way back when she was in school, girls didn't "possess the power" to stand up for themselves.
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@TheUglyTruth That's why it is in "quotes". It's a figure of speech.