GED Stories

Name: SheayBoo
Age: 18
City and State: Indanapolis, IN
What motivated you to get your GED? I want my GED so I can support my two kids and make sure they have a better life. I’m only 18, and I’m a single mother. I want to learn more, and set a good example for my kids when they [...]

Name: Destiny
Age: 17
City and State: Tulsa, OK
What motivated you to get your GED? I realized when I first dropped out of school that I used to like it. I don’t really like it now, though. However, I want to go back for my family. They really motivate me, and I love them.
How have your friends [...]

Name: Kelsey
Age: 17
City and State: Hawaii
What motivated you to get your GED? Getting kicked out of school really woke me up. I realized that getting an education is the best thing for me to do so that I can support my brother, sister, and grandma. We’re the only people we have for eachother. I didn’t [...]

Name: Sheruk
Age: 18
City and State: Ramallah, Palestine
What motivated you to get your GED? The people around me motivated me. Everyone around me was either in college, going to school, or had a good job. I never thought I would need my diploma/GED to have a future. I got married at a young age and told [...]

Name: Jacqueline
Age: 27
City and State: Pacific, Washington
What motivated you to get your GED? The thing that has motivated me to get my GED are my three kids. They are my life, and I want to give them a better life then I had.
How have your friends and family helped you? My friends and family are [...]

Name: Kaci
What motivated you to get your GED? Ms. Lein’s story has hit home with me. I’m also married to an alcoholic, violent spouse. I have remained in this marriage, believing my options are few. I dropped out of school too many years ago to count. I’m in my fifties. We have a beautiful, intelligent [...]

Name: Jessica
Age: 20
City and State: Knoxville, TN
What motivated you to get your GED? I have a one year old daughter, and I am seven months pregnant. I realized that with the economy going downhill, I’ll need a career. In order to do that, I will need my GED.
How have your friends and family helped you? [...]

Name: Shnecker
Age: 31
City and State: Montgomery, AL
What motivated you to get your GED? I want to get it for my family and for my life.
How have your friends and family helped you? By telling me to keep trying and not to give up.
What problems have you faced? Not knowing how to read, learning how to [...]

Name: Kimberly
Age: 23
City and State: Aylett, VA
What motivated you to get your GED? My family. I really want to better myself and try to become a nurse or work in the medical field.
How have your friends and family helped you? They are there for me. They tell me that they will help me any way [...]

Name: Blanche
Age: 35
City and State: Massillion, Ohio
What motivated you to get your GED? Well, I want to go to nursing school to be a nurse.
How have your friends and family helped you? My fiancé has encouraged me to take my GED so I can be a nurse.
What problems have you faced? I once had a [...]