Guadalupe Palacios 96 Years Old Woman Is Going To School
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Guadalupe Palacios 96 Years Old Woman Is Going To School. 96-year-old woman goes to high school to fulfill lifelong dream. Her goal is to graduate by the time she turns 100.
Now, she’s graduated on to a public high school in the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez, and she couldn’t be happier, NDTV reports.
“I feel ready to give it my all,” she told NDTV. “Today is a marvelous day,”
Guadalupe Palacios, according to the report, grew up in an indigenous village in Mexico’s Chiapas region. She was never able to attend school because she worked on her family’s farm, where they produced beans and corn.
As an adult, she went to work selling chickens at market, married twice and had six children.
Along the way, she picked up arithmetic, but never learned to read and write.
When she turned 92, she said, she decided it was time, and enrolled in a literacy program.
“Now I can write letters to my boyfriends,” she said with a laugh.
At 96, Mexican woman fulfills a dream: going to high school. Guadalupe Palacios Garcia learnt to read when she was 92. https://t.co/2MA8AUQUlI pic.twitter.com/T3OQB1xb4V
— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 19, 2018
But she did not stop there: In 2015, she enrolled in a primary school program for adult learners.
In less than four years, she completed both primary and middle school.
But there was no adult learning program for high school — so she decided to enroll in a regular public school, with classmates eight decades younger.
Already, she is looking beyond high school: She would like to be a kindergarten teacher someday.
“I feel ready to give it my all,” she told NDTV. “Today is a marvelous day,”
Guadalupe Palacios, according to the report, grew up in an indigenous village in Mexico’s Chiapas region. She was never able to attend school because she worked on her family’s farm, where they produced beans and corn.
As an adult, she went to work selling chickens at market, married twice and had six children.
Along the way, she picked up arithmetic, but never learned to read and write.
When she turned 92, she said, she decided it was time, and enrolled in a literacy program.
“Now I can write letters to my boyfriends,” she said with a laugh.
At 96, Mexican woman fulfills a dream: going to high school. Guadalupe Palacios Garcia learnt to read when she was 92. https://t.co/2MA8AUQUlI pic.twitter.com/T3OQB1xb4V
— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 19, 2018
But she did not stop there: In 2015, she enrolled in a primary school program for adult learners.
In less than four years, she completed both primary and middle school.
But there was no adult learning program for high school — so she decided to enroll in a regular public school, with classmates eight decades younger.
Already, she is looking beyond high school: She would like to be a kindergarten teacher someday.
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