THE BARBADOS Secondary Teachers’ Union (BSTU) and the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) are set to clash as the former has vowed its members in the fifth and sixth forms will stop correcting School-Based Assessments (SBAs).
BSTU president Mary Redman told the media yesterday at a Press conference at the BSTU’s 8th Avenue Belleville, St Michael headquarters that while the matter was of concern to the Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT), the BSTU was not afraid to lead the way in taking decisive action.
“At the CXC council meeting in December [last year], even though the CUT had written to the [CXC] registrar and asked [CXC] to include this issue on their agenda for [me] to put forward on behalf of the CUT, [I] was not allowed to put forward the case.
“After years of trying to get the Minister of Education to understand our plight and after trying to arrange with CXC to meet with us over this matter, we have passed a resolution at our last AGM [annual general meeting] on April 8 which states we will not be correcting SBAs this academic year. If we have to lead the way, we will. We are here to represent – that is what we do. It is one of the words in our motto,” she said.
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