Meet a Canadian who is nearly 80 and will be graduating for the first time [Video]

Cap-Pelé,N.B. resident Jeannette Cormier was surrounded by people decades younger than her when she decided to enroll in an adult learning program in her late 70s.

She’s now passed all her courses and is getting ready for her first-ever graduation ceremony, where she will receive her Canadian Adult Education Credential — equivalent to a high school diploma.

“I wanted to start again and do what I was supposed to do,” she said in an interview.

Cormier said math was her favourite subject when she attended school as a child at a one-room schoolhouse in rural New Brunswick. She had to drop out at 10-years-old, working for her parents until she started having children when she was 15.

“I had to look after my children, so I didn’t have a chance to go back to school,” she said.

Cormier raised five children, including the late Rhéal Cormier, a former Major League …