When Tanisha Grimes got a job as a housekeeper at East Carolina University, she didn't think twice about going back to school.
"When I finally came to ECU, it was like, 'Now I can breathe.
I have the leeway,'" the mother of six tells the News & Observer.
"I could see clear air, so I decided to go back."
She graduated high school after having her first daughter, Ashawndrea, now a 19-year-old senior majoring in clinical laboratory science.
But when her grandmother died, "I had to take care of the whole family, so putting my baby on her and her sister when they were older'I had to work.' I had to show my kids that it doesn't matter what age you are, you can always go back to school," says Grimes, who plans to pursue a bachelor's degree after earning her associate degree.
She says she's "been working hard," getting As and Bs, and " haven't stopped because I don't want them to feel like it's OK to quit something or to give up that easy."
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