Ms. Assay Augustine is a beautiful woman from the Republic of Trinidad

 and Tobago in the Caribbean who struggled alone to raise her five children,

she has to take on the role of two parents, without neither husband nor

family members to rescue her. She came from the family of twelve children

 and was the last of the children with one sister who was quite far away from

her. It’s not easy raising four girls and one boy as a single mother, without job

 lying on ambulant commerce selling peanuts on the roads or during special

event in town to make sure at the end of the day children get something to eat.

 

This is the woman who showed a symbol of hope and strength to her children.

In the middle of the night she stood up and prayed for her

children. She prayed for their education, and she asked God to protect her

 children. But at the end of it all, the most rewarding thing is seeing that those

children took their crown and stood as Queens and Kings to complete their first step of education at high school. She was able to marry her first daughter off to a wonderful man who took the baton from her to make the daughter as a wonderful wife and sent her to university to complete her university education and create a business for her who is the Chair-woman of Educational Institution (AIHL Inc.).

 

We took this story in consideration to dedicate this school in her name because of the children who are coming in our school are from single parents who think there is no hope for them.  

Assay Home School Academy was founded in mind to rescue our children who have been victimized by our public education system where most of them don’t complete their high school especially when the failure rate among school children in public school is far higher than home schooled students.

 

We already knew that schools are artificial man-made institutions in contrast to the home, which is a natural setting. There have always been many cultures with no schools, but none without homes. Learning at home, in fact, was the original education system, and school has become the substitute. Until the last one and half century, children didn’t usually even begin formal school. When we looked at Ms. Assay's story we came in conclusion that those children who went through with those types of lone parent families, they deserve something better than anything else. We support parental choice in education as stated in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (26.3). We believe in the rights of parents to choose the educational method that is in alignment with their beliefs and the learning style of their child. Assay Home School Academy is the best place for them.