Found at: http://www.anguillaguide.com/article/articleprint/3231/-1/139/
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Village Teacher Helping Children, Adults
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In West End there is a small but thriving outdoor private school doing a great deal of successful teaching of children and adults. So effective is the work there that students are attending from as far as Stoney Ground some eight miles away.
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Teacher Omah with students
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The private classes are being run by retired Teacher Omah Richardson who taught English Language at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School following her return from St. Kitts where she led a teaching career for many years.
“These children from the various primary schools come to me on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the adults on Mondays and Wednesdays,” she told The Anguillian in the cool of the evening outside her home. She teaches English Language and Mathematics helping the children to improve on what they are learning at their schools. “I do it because I love teaching,” Mrs. Richardson said with pride.
What about her older students? “The adults are people who did not manage to pass their school-leaving certificate examination – that is the CXC or the GCE but who are desirous of doing so and are coming to the evening classes,” she explained. “I send people to write exams every year and I have had some successes.”
Mrs. Richardson retired from teaching at the Comprehensive School some 10 years ago but was called back on several occasions to serve as a substitute teacher. She is now quite settled in her private tutoring service in her village and has some very committed and bright students.
“I am enjoying it very much. I am happy that I have potential that can be used in the community and there is great need for it here,” she added.