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In reply to the discussion: Why has Jeb Bush's college graduation year been omitted by the media for at least 30 years now? [View all]anobserver2
(928 posts)Re: "One would need to provide some evidence that the program didn't allow it. Because frankly, what Jeb is claiming doesn't seem that strange."
For many years I thought the way you did: after reading all this propaganda, I thought: well, that's not odd that a person could graduate in "2" or "2-1'2" or "less than 3" years.
But I did always find it odd that the numbers keep changing -- and that there is always a material omission of month and year of graduation as claimed by Jeb Bush.
What really changed my mind about this whole matter was a 2015 article in the Boston Globe. Once i read that article, I realized: Jeb Bush is probably a college drop-out.
Because what I had always erroneously assumed was this: Gee, Jeb Bush must have taken A LOT of Advanced Placemnt (AP) courses in his private high school in order to go so quickly through that 4-year degree program at UT.
But the Boston Globe reporter went poking around that private school community and discovered, and reported, that Jeb Bush was on the verge of being expelled from that private school for his persistent low grades. Jeb Bush confirmed this in the article.
This was shocking. It was the first time the media have ever reported this, and, Jeb Bush is in the article confirming it.
At that point I realized: he was bringing NO AP college credits with him into UT. He barely made it through high school.
Without AP credits, and without any college credits from anywhere else -- and learning more about this program and UT -- he had to be there until June 1975 to graduate is what I concluded. He wasn't. I concluded, based on all I learned: he dropped out -- in Jan 1974.
Sure would be nice if all those people who work so hard to get a degree knew this. But, the media is not asking him for a month and year of graduation. We just get a lot of propaganda, as shown in these 9 links over 17 years.
That is what it seems to me. The media may be prevented from asking him, too. One of the authors, Hannah Rosin, expressed frustration that he would not answer her questions at all as I recall. Another article in that bunch I posted above says the Bushes would not comment.
So, it seems to me there is stonewalling from Jeb Bush and his family going on with respect to the details of this college graduation issue.
But again, my point is: the media should be reporting that he will not answer is that is the situation -- not all this mumbo-jumbo they reported instead which I put in bold, while materially omitting any month and year of alleged graduation.