ABSTRACT
School administrators were proud to develop students who could gain admission into these secondary schools, and we students felt privileged to attend such a school that could do that. We knew that schools like St. Mary Frances School were not on par with international schools like the International School of Accra or the Community School of Accra, where diplomats, prominent Ghanaians, and politicians sent their children. But what we understood was that while our parents were not in any capacity able to pay our school tuition and fees in US dollars, schools like St. Mary Frances offered us the opportunity to find success. In this chapter, the author uses an autoethnography research method to describe and systematically analyze (graphy) personal experience (auto) in order to understand cultural experience.
