Grandmother, 88, barred from graduating college due to pregnancy clinches diploma at Maine university 60 years later

This headline is so poorly written, that I had to take it to r/peterexplainsthejoke

That title is so much to chew over. Like swimming through a syrup swimming pool. Holy shit.

I spent too much time trying to understand meaning of "pregnancy clinching"

this is a less apocalyptic version of the starving Palestinian children finally receiving bread.

i.e. justice delayed is justice denied

this Lady deserves damages payments PLUS back wage reparations for 70+/- years of lost working years.

/c/orphancrushing@lemmy.world

She should have obtained her degree in 1959, but at the time she wasn’t allowed to student teach — a requirement for graduation — because she was pregnant with her and her husband’s first of four daughters. But Justin Dimmel, associate dean for the College of Education and Human Development, and other officials determined this year that when Alexander worked as a full-time aide for a preschool program in the early 1980s, that was enough to satisfy the mandate.

The octogenarian graduated with a bachelor of science in education.