This Immigrant’s Success Spurred by Jamaica’s Way of Life
The star student was in trouble.
Michael Taylor was a sophomore at an elite Jamaican high school, Campion College, which had welcomed him as a freshman after he scored in the top one percent on an entrance exam, earning a coveted government scholarship.
He had a reputation for being a math whiz.
But one day during the Jamaican equivalent of his sophomore year, he bombed a math test…
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