AMERICA | Despite having speech challenges, 19-year-old boy graduates US high school with 3.29GPA.
A 19-year-old boy named Joshua Lawrence has defied the odds to graduate from Forest Trail Academy, Florida in the United States despite facing different challenges including speech problems.
Joshua, a Caribbean earned his high school diploma with a remarkable 3.29 grade point average amidst different adversity. At the age of two, he was diagnosed with traits of autism and had to undergo speech therapy which affected his education.
Despite his difficulties, he developed a passion for learning and was determined to be educated. Joshua had to ferry for about 2 hours to attend a school where he could get the special attention he desperately needed to learn.
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He spent his formative years in two different schools, First Impressions Pre-School, Britsh Virgin Islands, and The Valley Day School in Virgin Gorda both located in the Caribbean.
At five years old, Joshua would make weekly trips to another town to attend a supplemental learning center called Sylvan Learning and was rejected from local secondary schools in his town.
Not giving up, Joshua enrolled in an online private school, Forest Trail Academy, Florida in the United States where he started his high school education. He worked from a virtual classroom set up in his mother’s office through the years he spent in the school.
With a determined spirit and unending support from his family, Joshua completed his hogh school courses. To celebrate his success, his mother Einstein Samuels organized a personal graduation ceremony for him.
The Minister of Education and Culture of the British Virgin Islands was invited to present his certificate. Giving his speech, Joshua expressed his gratitude to his teachers for being patient with him and for giving him a second chance anytime he was wrong.
”As I receive my high school diploma today, I am very grateful to God. School wasn’t always easy. Whenever I received below 70 percent, I was always given a second chance to redo. I had excellent teachers who always explained the work to me,” he said.
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