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By Krys-Darcelle Dumas | Director, Think-Top Educational Institute csec-english-classroom-trinidad CSEC English A results in Trinidad and the wider Caribbean are shaped long before Form 5. In fifteen years of teaching in a Trinidadian secondary school and at Think-Top Educational Institute, I have watched the same patterns predict success or failure by Form 3. I had written a gentler version of this piece. I threw it away. Parents who trust me with their child's education de

Sunday mornings in my childhood home had a sound. My mother would blast the radio. Vintage calypso. Sparrow. Kitchener. Stalin. I did not know then that I was being educated. I know it now. This is what that education built, and what its absence costs in the creative writing classroom.