Today, children across Trinidad and Tobago sat the SEA Entrance Examination for admission to secondary school. Coffeewallah [1] 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.”
Trinidad & Tobago: SEA “Ordeal”
· Written by Janine Mendes-Franco
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