Fearon
After almost three decades of hiccups, 45-year-old Patricia Alicia Fearon has been able to attain an associate degree in early childhood education. Fearon, a Race Course, Clarendon native, left Vere Technical High School with three Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects, but harboured thoughts of improving her academic qualifications.
Striving for a career in education, she became a teacher s assistant, a role that served to fuel her passion and desire to become a teacher. But at 22, Fearon hit her first real hurdle. She got pregnant with her son and wasn t able to finish her teacher s assistant programme, which was being done through the then HEART Trust/NTA