Imagine teaching a multi-grade class of 85 students

Amelia Sirgool

Amelia Sirgool credits her sound primary education for preparing her for her career as a teacher; equipping her with the skills and knowledge she needed to serve the education sector in different capacities including her most challenging and enjoyable tenure as a multi-grade teacher at Anarika.

At that time, Teacher Milo was known as Amelia Ramsarran and fondly called Abigail. She told Stabroek News that she obtained a sound primary education at the Wales Canadian Mission School where was forced to wait for two years in the sixth standard as she was too young to write the Primary School Leaving Certificate. Her handwriting which remained