Posted on 05/03/2015 6:04:03 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
MIAMI – Rosa Salgado is a 79-year-old grandmother who's English was limited when she moved to Miami from her native Colombia in 1995.
Despite her age and language difficulties, Salgado graduated from college with a degree in education on Saturday, the Miami Herald reported.
Salgado graduated from Miami Dade College's Wolfson campus along with two of her grandchildren.
Salgado told the newspaper that graduating from college was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. She graduated with honors.
"My grandchildren, my family, they've grown up watching my activity and they are going to learn and fight in life and overcome obstacles," she said.
One of her former professors, Sara Bulnes, said Salgado's grasp of English was limited -- but her drive to learn was not.
"When she came into my classroom her English was very limited and she struggled to learn the language, but she persevered," Bulnes said.
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...and still can’t find a job.
Splash her poster and accomplishment all over Latino neighborhoods with the caption “you cant do what a 79 year old woman did? I thought you were tough?
Awesome story!
Thanks for posting.
This is very sad. The aspiring journalist doesn't know the difference between who's and whose.
What’s most appalling is that his editor doesn’t know the difference either.
I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out. Pretty sad indeed.
They should pass the story around Baltimore, but they probably couldn’t read it.
And thank you for posting the article. Good for the grandmother!
So is the reporter's.
rofl. put it in Ebonics. And don’t make fun of Ebonics. I know Ebonics. My friends know Ebonics. If you don’t know Ebonics your just racissssssssssssssssssssssss
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