THE NATIONAL COUNCIL of Parent-Teacher Associations (NCPTA) has to get more involved in the long-running dispute between the Ministry of Education and the teachers’ unions over the marking of school-based assessments (SBAs).
Minister of Education Ronald Jones made that declaration Sunday as the fight with the Mary Redman-led Barbados Secondary Teachers’ Union over teachers’ marking of SBAs shows no sign of letting up.
Though he was adamant that his ministry remained committed to the issue, the minister told party faithful attending a Democratic Labour Party St Andrew branch meeting that the umbrella grouping had a bigger role to play.
“What has to happen, and I’ve had conversations up to [Saturday] with somebody in the NCPTA, I said to them, ‘You’re the ones who really have to carry this fight now’,” Jones informed the meeting at the Alleyne School. (WILLCOMM)
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