Learners' Stories

Single mother sets sights on school

Rochelle quit school in Grade 9, but today, with READ’s help, she’s close to completing Grade 12 and is proudly setting a good example for her three daughters.

“Being at READ has given me the confidence to move up in the world,” Rochelle says. She now plans to become a First Nations family support worker. “My self esteem has gone way up seeing what I can accomplish.”

She has moved up four grade levels, and credits the individual help she received in READ’s adult program with her accomplishments. While she once thought of herself as a slow learner, Rochelle learned specific skills like sounding out words, spelling and sentence structure, and practiced writing sentences, paragraphs and essays. In math class, she learned to add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers, decimals, fractions and percentages.

“I could go at my own pace and get extra help when I needed it, and I got lots of one-on-one with the teacher,” she says. “I’m not scared to learn now.”

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