The Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) wants a number of outstanding issues at the Frederick Smith Secondary School dealt with urgently.President Rudy Lovell told Barbados TODAY that the union had been trying at every turn to bring a resolution to the persistent wide-ranging issues, but to date nothing concrete had been done.In a statement on Monday night, Lovell said that hundreds of students at the former St James Secondary were soon to sit Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations and teachers were “extremely” worried that they may not be able to do so because a lack of resources was preventing students from completing their School Based Assessments (SBAs).“There is a lack of materials to complete SBAs in Industrial Technology and there is also the absence of teaching materials for other subject areas. There is no paper and ink for printing essential work and this is taking a toll on the teaching and learning process,” he said.Lovell said the BUT met with the chairman of the board of management, the principal, and the secretary-treasurer of the Frederick Smith Secondary School on February 1, 2023 at 4 p.m. for an hour and a half and the parties representing the school indicated,among other things, that materials would be made available for the completion of SBAs pending the submission of a revised materials lists. Other teaching resources were also promised.
