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Atherley, CTUSAB says heads should roll after probe into test fiasco - Barbados Today

Someone should be held accountable for the recent Computer Science test fiasco, say leader of the Alliance Party for Progress (APP) Bishop Joseph Atherley and the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB).However, Atherley has stopped short of calling for the head of Minister of Education, Technological and Vocational Training Kay McConney, suggesting that a full investigation be completed before any such decision is taken.His comments came in the wake of apologies being issued by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Ministry of Education for their roles in allowing a controversial pretest to be administered to first-form students at five secondary schools, which contained inappropriate and invasive questions that included queries about the students’ sexuality and gender identity.Atherley told Barbados TODAY that the apology issued on Thursday by Chief Education Officer Dr Ramona Archer-Bradshaw was simply not enough.The former Opposition Leader made it clear that he was not calling for McConney’s resignation at this stage, as he did not have all the facts.However, he said: “I think that there is a need for some public censure of somebody, some disciplinary measure to be employed against somebody because somebody has to bear responsibility for this. I don’t want to take this into the realm of the political. We are dealing with the lives of our children here and I think it is a very serious thing. We are dealing with what I consider to be a breach of trust between the state agency, which is the Ministry of Education, and parents in Barbados.

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