As a teenager, his Aunt Lien is afraid of being ostracized by her foster family further if she gets into the Higher Burgess School (HBS), so she fails the exam on purpose and places into the More Advanced Lower Education College (MULO) to fit in better with her foster siblings, Ali and Kees. (Kees is the one who was quite horrid to her when she told him about the sexual assaults she experienced.) Page 232 - 235.
"And so life goes on as before in the household, with Lien in the class below Kees at the MULO, Where he rises with distinction to become head boy... When the time comes, Ali leaves home to go to nursing and Kees, the star of the MULO, goes on to train as a flight engineer and then to work for Fokker in aircraft design, quickly rising through the firm. And Lien? She would like to work with children. There is a place in Amsterdam that would suit her: a residential nursery."
Page 235
~ Bart van Es
"The Cut Out Girl..."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36978239-the-cut-out-girl
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