Trinidad & Tobago: SEA “Ordeal”  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

Today, children across Trinidad and Tobago sat the SEA Entrance Examination for admission to secondary school.  Coffeewallah calls it an “ordeal so intense, that it can be likened to Suzanne Collins’  Hunger Games novel”, explaining: “While these children do not have to kill anyone to survive, their self esteem, peace of mind and their very childhood, is marked with a stress that is at best unfair, and at worst, draconian.”