TB is almost always in class. She lets us know if she or one of her three boys is sick. She participates in other opportunities to improve herself or her family's situation--the Unity garden project or a Financial Literacy class. She makes sure she is at her daughter's elementary school for special events. She has followed through on my request that she be tested for a learning disability so that she can request accommodations in taking the GED exam. But....we have to prove that she can pass the test with those accommodations. And we have yet to do so, even after a year and a half of faithful attendance.
I know her reading and math and writing have all improved. But the GED exam demands a level of abstract thinking and vocabulary and background and multi-step problem solving that I am not sure she is capable of doing.
We are going to give her a certificate at our closing ceremony naming her our "student of the year." I wish we could award a GED for effort. Without that achievement, it will be hard for her to ever have a job that will enable her family to become self-sufficient.
Today is her birthday. Her sons and I made her a birthday cake and we all shared it at circle time. I hope she felt celebrated.
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