Miss Avril Sinanan, age forty-four of Ribeiro Trace, Rock Road, Penal was born on the 17th March, 1970. She was nurtured from a very poor rural family consisting of eleven children and her two elderly parents: she was the fourth child. Her mother was a housewife and her father was the sole breadwinner of the household, he worked as a farmer in the sugarcane fields until all the plantations were closed down in 2003 because it became a financial burden to the government to meet the subsidy. Both parents were uneducated, neither of whom learnt to read and were raised in even more impoverished circumstances. While her mother stayed at home and slaved behind their children and household chores, her father toiled by undertaking manual labour in which
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SEA was introduced in the year 2011 to replace the Common Entrance exam. At that time once a child failed to meet the exam requirements their hopes of furthering their education was diminished at age twelve. Unlike children of today’s generation they are granted the opportunity until age fifteen to write the secondary entrance assessment and still pass for a reputable secondary school. Avril believes that “Now poor children can and do make it into better schools even though the process is plagued with corruption and nepotism”. Therefore, John and Matthew’s formal schooling came to a halt: her father was very disappointed in them and pressured them into becoming a farmer like himself but their mother did not lose faith in her sons and sent them to a nearby garage to learn the trade of welding. After years of hard work her brothers were recognized as top class welders in Penal. Being mindful that John and Matthew became successful adults, …show more content…
Avril sees herself in ten years retired and travelling to exotic Caribbean counties with her nieces. The reason I have chosen Miss Avril Sinanan to be my case of study is because I have known her for the past seventeen years as she is an associate of my mother’s and she has had the biggest impact on my educational perspective and I truly admire all the obstacles in her life that she has overcome. I am proud of her accomplishments and the strong individual she has become. She is my role
SEA was introduced in the year 2011 to replace the Common Entrance exam. At that time once a child failed to meet the exam requirements their hopes of furthering their education was diminished at age twelve. Unlike children of today’s generation they are granted the opportunity until age fifteen to write the secondary entrance assessment and still pass for a reputable secondary school. Avril believes that “Now poor children can and do make it into better schools even though the process is plagued with corruption and nepotism”. Therefore, John and Matthew’s formal schooling came to a halt: her father was very disappointed in them and pressured them into becoming a farmer like himself but their mother did not lose faith in her sons and sent them to a nearby garage to learn the trade of welding. After years of hard work her brothers were recognized as top class welders in Penal. Being mindful that John and Matthew became successful adults, …show more content…
Avril sees herself in ten years retired and travelling to exotic Caribbean counties with her nieces. The reason I have chosen Miss Avril Sinanan to be my case of study is because I have known her for the past seventeen years as she is an associate of my mother’s and she has had the biggest impact on my educational perspective and I truly admire all the obstacles in her life that she has overcome. I am proud of her accomplishments and the strong individual she has become. She is my role