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Dr Garth Anderson, President, Caribbean Union of Teachers
The Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) is turning to international agencies for support in its bid to secure a postponement of this year's regional examinations for high school students.
Regional education ministers are being accused of supporting poor leadership at the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) as the testing body forges ahead with plans for this year's sitting of its exams.
CXC has insisted that the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) will begin on May 2.
But the CUT wants the tests pushed back by at least three weeks.
CUT President Dr. Garth Anderson is urging regional ministers of education to intervene as, according to him, the CXC has been unresponsive to its calls.
He has also taken a dim view of the education ministers however, attributing to them the attitudes of occupants of "the greathouse," while, according to him, "the rest of us are on the plantation toiling along."
Dr. Anderson told Radio Jamaica News that the regional Council for Human and Social Development has also not responded to its calls for a meeting to address the concern that students are not ready for the exams.
"History will recall the injustice meted out to our students in a time like this," he declared in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic that has disrupted normal educational engagements for students over the last two years.
Dissatisfied with the position taken by regional educational leaders, Dr. Anderson has announced that the CUT will be appealing to international organizations like UNICEF to help it convince the CXC to make changes to the exams and the schedule.
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