The Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) is urging Government to pause its plans to abolish the 11-plus exam and instead focus on implementing measures to address “severe” learning deficiencies being seen among Class 4 students.President of the union Rudy Lovell told Barbados TODAY that there was a “vast” number of students entering secondary school with “shocking” deficiencies, including inability to spell their names and even form letters properly.And he insisted that the Ministry of Education should seek to fix these issues before changing the method used to transition students from primary to secondary school.
