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I personally think all new drivers coming in should have to have a GED or HS diploma. It would certainly help our image at the very least. But on the other hand could your college educated doctor or lawyer drive a truck any better than an old timer without a high school education? I think not..

 

I got my GED after being out of school for 20+ years.

While it made me feel good about myself, and like I had accomplished something important, it didn't help me learn out to drive a big truck.

I don't know what kind of rules individual states may have about this.

Judi Kay

 

When I started in the business I was a HS dropout. I quit in the first semester of 10th grade.

Does that make me dumb or ignorant? No.

I got my GED back in 2004 but scored high enough to where it was a regular HS diploma. FL used to do that back then.

 

Nobody has ever stopped me at the border and demanded a copy of my GED. Good thing, since I don't have a copy of it and don't care to get one. I've never needed it for anything.

 

i made it all the way through 12th grade. No GED for me.

 

That's great! I was surprised when I did my pre-testing, to see what were my strong and weak points , to find out what I needed to study before the actual test.

The only thing I was very weak on were my math skills. Six weeks of study, and I was ready. (I was going once a week to a little community center, where they had tutors, and helped me pay for my testing.)

As a matter of fact, my written essay was put in the GED testing book the next year, as an example piece.

Now, I would have loved to have stayed in school, and gotten my diploma that way, my family circumstances were such that I couldn't.

But, you know what? I APPRECIATE that GED much more than I would have a regular H.S. diploma. And, there actually WAS a real diploma ceremony for the GED class.

And my kids were there to cheer me, and it was one of my very proudest moments!

Judi Kay

 

Math was my weak point also, for that matter it still is! I can do 99% of the math needed for daily survival, but trig, calculus etc had me stumped.

I quit school because I was bored and getting in trouble, skipping class, sneaking cigs in the orange grove etc etc... I quit HS went to the Vo-Tech took Diesel Mechanics for a couple months then was offered a job driving OTR for a transporter. I was running a tad bit outlaw in those days....