You mean 8th grade graduate.
FWIW, my mother taught high school in a big city after the big war. A semester's experience convinced her to accept Dad's marriage proposal and bail.
They weren't dealing drugs and dangerous back in those days, but they weren't much interested in learning.
Actually he meant eighth grade AT MOST! That is for math, as far as writing skills he probably meant sixth grade or less. This country is full of college graduates, many of them Freepers, who don’t know to, two and too, don’t know there, their and they’re, dont know its from it’s, use apostrophes in plurals, couldn’t select the correct pronoun if THEIR lives depended on it etc. Don’t even mention history, I can say from conversations I have had that the average recent recipient of a university degree with a MAJOR in history would have as much chance of passing my eighth grade history final as I would have of successfully performing brain surgery while designing a spaceship at the same time, standing on my head the whole while and whistling Dixie.
I forgot to say on the subject of math how disgusting it is to hear supposedly educated people, including the current resident, use such absurd terms as “2500 percent less”. If that is supposed to have a meaning I cannot even guess what it might be. It is bad enough that people who should know better say things like “25 times smaller” which is mathematically impossible yet I can probably guess what they are trying to say but “2500 percent less” defies interpretation.