Jean Augustine: Domestic Help

Practice Teaching Dept: But after working as domestic help for a Forest Hill family for a year, she earned her permanent resident status and enrolled in teachers college although not without a fight, according to The Star. She kept telling me I had to do Grade 13 and pushing my papers back to me. I just stood there. I would not move. She called the next person in the line, then the next person behind. I just kept standing there, Augustine recalls and like most migrants leaving their homeland, Jean Augustine thought she would be away from Grenada for just a little while when she signed up for the Canada Caribbean Domestic Scheme in 1960. Despite her high school diploma and practice teaching in Grenada, Augustine was told by a receptionist at the college to repeat Grade 13 in Canada to qualify. As reported in the news.
@t high school diploma, permanent resident status