{"id":287,"date":"2020-12-20T02:29:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T07:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/?page_id=287"},"modified":"2020-12-21T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T20:10:11","slug":"students-and-parents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/students-and-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Students, Parents, and Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, Trinidadian parents on numerous occasions show disapproval of the SEA exam. In many op-eds, they mutually express the exam to be unnecessarily stressful for their primary school children. Following parents, primary school children find the exam nerve-wracking and detrimental to their mental health (Harry, 2016). One parent&#8217;s child admitted to self-harm and held suicidal thoughts due to low confidence in their exam performance (Ramdeo, 2019). <span class=\"s1\">The SEA continues to be under\u00a0attack for its psychological trauma on schoolchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-337 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/448\/2020\/12\/SEA-exam-help-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/448\/2020\/12\/SEA-exam-help-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/448\/2020\/12\/SEA-exam-help-150x81.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/448\/2020\/12\/SEA-exam-help.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Substantively, the students&#8217; and parents\u2019 stance closely resembles Barbados\u2019 reasoning for abolishing the exam. The Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, expressed their government\u2019s intention behind abolition: \u201cTen or eleven years old is too young to ask a child to determine what their life should look like for the rest of their life\u201d (Hunte, 2020). Similar to Trinidad, Barbados recognizes the immense pressure and intimidation the exam puts on young schoolchildren. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, Trinidadian parents on numerous occasions show disapproval of the SEA exam. In many op-eds, they mutually express the exam to be unnecessarily stressful for their primary school children. Following parents, primary school children find the exam nerve-wracking and detrimental to their mental health (Harry, 2016). One parent&#8217;s child admitted to self-harm and held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1180,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-287","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}