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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Tobago SEA students excited to see friends again

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Loyse Vincent
1328 days ago
20210702

There was no surge of stu­dents, ex­cit­ed­ly leav­ing months of the stren­u­ous SEA prepa­ra­tion be­hind, ex­it­ing school doors yes­ter­day.

The usu­al ex­cite­ment that is syn­ony­mous with the com­ple­tion of SEA ex­ams was missed again, as stu­dents still mind­ful of the COVID-19 pro­to­cols or­der­ly stepped out of the ex­am room and fil­tered in­to var­i­ous di­rec­tions to greet anx­ious par­ents.

Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed a few schools to get feed­back from par­ents and teach­ers in the af­ter­math of the ex­am.

Ronal­do De­mas of the Sig­nal Hill Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School said he was hap­py to fi­nal­ly have the ex­am over and done with, but he was more ex­cit­ed to see his friends.

“I was tempt­ed to go and hug them up but I had to fol­low the pre­cau­tions.”

He said it felt a lit­tle weird to be back in a class­room af­ter so long and he de­scribed his prepa­ra­tion for the ex­am as tough.

“It was a lit­tle hard for me be­cause I suf­fer from mi­graine headaches and I used to have a lot of them but my mum­my take care of me and I went back the next day.”

Janae Atkins al­so of the Sig­nal Hill Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry said she was ex­cit­ed to be re­unit­ed with her friends.

“I re­al­ly want­ed to hug them but couldn’t.

She said miss­ing out on so­cial­is­ing with her friends made prepar­ing for the ex­am even more chal­leng­ing.

“It was ok but it was up­set­ting be­cause you not get­ting to see your school friends. The first thing I want­ed to do was talk about how they were feel­ing about the lock­down and zoom and every­thing.”

Over at the Scar­bor­ough An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School Janea Cord­ner said prepar­ing for the ex­ams was a chal­lenge but she was glad to have the ex­am be­hind her.

“It was kind of hard be­cause it had some times when cur­rent gone and you have to get ready for school, it was good to see my friends be­cause I missed them and it was good to see them.”

Janea’s class­mate Abi­gail Ed­wards said she was al­so “ex­cit­ed to see a class­room again.”

“I know I was go­ing to come to school to do the ex­am but I didn’t ex­pect to be so ex­cit­ed to see me friends my teacher and the prin­ci­pal. When I saw my friends I want­ed to run over and hug them but we couldn’t.”

Abi­gail said she hopes the coun­try would be able to go back to be­ing nor­mal be­cause she was look­ing for­ward to en­joy­ing high school.

Af­ter SEA it would be cus­tom­ary for stu­dents to be treat­ed to mall out­ing, their favourite fast food meal or even cin­e­ma.

But be­cause of COVID-19 re­stric­tions it could not hap­pen.

In­stead, many of the stu­dents said they had plans to get some rest, watch tele­vi­sion and spend the rest of the day play­ing video games.


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