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The following is shared from caribbeansignal.com on the issue of a controversial survey sponsored by the Ministry of Education – Blogmaster

October 6, 2022 by Amit Uttamchandani

Code.org responds to questions around controversial test in Barbados

Code.org logo, Source: Wikipedia

On October 5th, Barbados Today published an article about a controversial computer science test held in Barbados. 

The original article, and subsequent Oct 6 articles mentioned Code.org, the Ministry of Education, Technological & Vocational Training, and the Inter-American Development Bank, (see here, here and here). I contacted Code.org on October 5 and asked the following questions:

Code.org questions from Amit
Screenshot of Questions sent on Oct 5, 2022 (click to enlarge).

Today (Oct 6), I received the following reply from Code.org:

Code.org responses from Amit.
Screenshot of Code.org Reply received Oct 6, 2022 (click to enlarge).

As per BT’s initial Oct 5 and 6th articles, and Code.org’s Oct 6th reply to my queries (and the IDB’s Oct 6th statement and apology, and The Ministry’s response and apology), it seems – to me at least – that Code.org was not involved.

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627 responses to “Parents in Barbados Query Strange Test, Sex Test, Science Test”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    Yes Enuff, amazing what some say about the blog and then loiter in the BU space 24/7. It is hypocrisy at its best.

    The blogmaster has been on the job for awhile and understand what motivates some to disparage BU.

    Unfortunately some adults see benefit in immature behaviour. The blogmaster will NOT be moved.

  2. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “that while she had not seen the questions on the test there appeared to be some level of deception involved.””

    if yall had even one iota of commonsense, ya would know without seeing the questions WHY SHE SAID THAT…seeing the questions makes it that worse..

  3. John Avatar
    John

    JohnOctober 8, 2022 1:22 PM

    Are the 11 year old children who took the test vaccinated against COVID-19?

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Looks like we have received a whole set of Pfizer Paediatric Vaccines PPVs.

    https://gisbarbados.gov.bb/blog/barbados-receives-pfizer-covid-19-vaccines-for-children/

    I thought Pfizer had a problem?

    Do we have our priorities right?

  4. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Bearing in mind that a psychologist IS NOT A LAWYER………William….i still believe that the principals should cover their tails…..don’t know what information she was given, but she believes the principals should hold responsibility…..and we both know it smells like a set up for them…

    a bank should NEVER be asking these types of questions of minor children based on LOANS given to a begging borrowing government…

    and i already outlined that they could have CONTRACTED PLT to establish coding centres across Barbados and the Caribbean….using the same loans, they did not need IDB to quiz, survey or test these children…

    don’t know when the BUers will learn that using me as a distraction CARRIES NO SAFETY NET…

    “In an initial apology that was rejected by Government, an official at the IDB claimed that the survey contained items on the “internationally-recognized Child Behaviour Checklist The IDB official maintained that the survey included “international standard questions” on Positive Youth Development which were going to be used to capture the overall impact of the project.

    However, Maynard said based on the questions asked in the test she could not see how it would meet international standards.

    “I don’t think that could ever be the case. I doubt very much that this test, titled a Computer Science pre-test with questions that are not related to your computer skills at all, would meet international standards for ethics and research. They would have to show us evidence that this test was approved by a Research Ethics Board in some other jurisdiction. I doubt that very much,” Maynard said.

    “Good practice in terms of test administration is that you declare everything up front in terms of what the test is about and that the users of the test have a chance to vet it before it goes forth to children. And again I would still emphasise even if it was a pre-Computer test that parents still should have been notified that their children were going to be asked to take this test.

    “I think what’s more concerning about this case is that it was hidden under the cover of being some kind of pre-Computer test and to me it suggests there was an element of deception in the administering of this test. It should have been vetted by the Ministry of Education and I assume also that principals would have taken a look at it before distributing it in schools. I think that is of more concern at the moment,” the professor pointed out”

  5. John Avatar
    John

    How come the Survey Mandate is attracting so much noise and most Bajans ran and obeyed the Vaccine Mandate?

  6. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “I thought Pfizer had a problem?”

    yes they do….and those vaccines SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN TO THOSE CHILDREN…

    any fallout from that is the fault of the begging, borrowing government…

  7. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    they are still digging the DEEPEST PIT, hope they don’t STRIKE OIL to DROWN THEM ALL….as the people are hoping…

  8. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Even if the questionnaire met some international standard, the Min of Ed should inform the parents and seek their approval.

    It isn’t only the questionnaire/test that is an issue, the flawed process that was followed is even an issue.

    There is nothing that is correct here. There is nothing to be salvaged.

  9. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I missed the meeting led by Ronnie O

    Ronnie O
    I did not get the memo

  10. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    @TLSN @William……if you have access to 246bajanvibesradio…there were two professionals carrying Dr. who earlier gave their views on the latest test scam negatively impacting Afrikan children in Barbados and across the region….hope you are hooked in..

    too busy to listen to them now, but will later..

  11. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “Even if the questionnaire met some international standard, the Min of Ed should inform the parents and seek their approval.”

    that’s why i stressed that the psychologist IS NOT A LAWYER…and she is working with information given to her to present the fact that this was a SHAM from the get go……..obviously she WAS NOT GIVEN ALL THE DETAILS…

    personally….i believe they are targeting the low-hanging fruit, the softest targets, the principals for a set-up, and they should get themselves some good lawyers…..when beasts are backed up against the wall, they always look for a way out and someone will get SACRIFICED…

  12. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    “Yes Enuff, amazing what some say about the blog and then loiter in the BU space 24/7. It is hypocrisy at its best.”

    I beg to differ. It is hypocrisy at it’s worst.

    I can understand disagreeing with the blogmaster as opinions can differ, but I have difficulty with smearing and criticizing the only vehicle that is available for us to carpool in.

  13. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Obviously Donna is right! lol.

    There was definitely deception. Many of these questions had nothing to do with the subject matter.

    The test should have been anonymous and parental consent should have been sought.

    P.S. If somebody sends foreign exchange to their relative, it props up THE RELATIVE.

  14. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Salemite given your track record of posting anything you feel paints Bdos and Bajans as the wuss, had you been in possession of a sample as claimed, you would have posted it and pretended to be Miss Marple. Pass me with the BS. You too liard.🤣🤣

  15. John A Avatar
    John A

    @David

    Had a chance to look at the document and it seems to be a look into the minds and values of tomorrow’s Bajan. It is like if the IADB is trying to get a gauge for where Barbados will be in 20 years based on the youth of today.

    I think people need to look past the surface and the few sex questions and reflect on the bigger picture here.

  16. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    There is the other issue – lack of process.

  17. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    “We should not get carried away. Surveys are done by schools/students on a regular basis to evaluate. Let us discuss the issues dispassionately.”
    Kindly tell the blog , the schools/ students who conceptualized and administered the survey/ test that is currently under discussion or any such test/survey in the history of this country.
    This issue has been discussed dispassionately for a number of days on BU and in the entire country.
    More to come.
    Peace.

  18. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ John A

    “I think people need to look past the surface and the few sex questions and reflect on the bigger picture here.”

    Politely , kindly say what you perceive to be the “ bigger picture” here.
    Thanks
    Peace

  19. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ William

    To me it seems to be a desire to see what the values and mental frame of tomorrow’s adults is on the island. I agree the questionnaire was badly handled and both the Ministry and IADB should be held accountable, but I think if one looks at it with an open mind, you can see where it was going.

    Should it of went down this way? Of course not. Should some of the questions been removed from the survey? Of course they should have, however once you can get past that in my view, it was an attempt to gauge tomorrow’s Barbados based on today’s youth. Of course unless the IADB comes out and states the reason for the survey we can only draw conclusions based on personal interpretations.

    Just my humble opinion of course.

  20. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    “amazing what some say about the blog and then loiter in the BU space 24/7. “

    Bu is watched more than TV
    people always moan about what’s on the telly

    “Kindly tell the blog , the schools/ students who conceptualized and administered the survey/ test”

    It was “The Man”

    Hip Hop is the Black CNN

    Hope You Killas Understand Me

    Simon Says [Remix]

  21. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Computers and Technology were went to liberate the people

    but Governments use them to control people

    The Police threw some questions in to bust the youths

  22. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ John A
    Thanks for your response. However, I suggest that there must be a better way to reach such goals, as you have expressed, without subjecting very young children to such a traumatic experience.
    And while we may want to look past the questions, I assure you, that we cannot look past , what has been done to our children and their parents.
    Quite frankly, we are being fed a lot of confusion to obfuscate the parents and by extension the country.
    Whereas , I would not accuse you of such a dastardly act, I would urge you to be careful in attaching such grand intentions to this nefarious test/ survey or whatever the spin doctors have decided to call it.
    Furthermore, you have now seen clearly that neither the Chief Education Officer; the Prime Minister nor the Minister of Education, has even remotely attempted ascribe blame to the Principals or teachers, at the school plants where this astonishing betrayal of our young and vulnerable citizens , who were supposed to be safe , took place.
    This is a far cry from those who come here trying to fix things in order to fit their well known agendas.
    There is more to come as the agents , political and other wise , join forces to control the minds of the populace . They will reveal themselves.
    Keep up the good work.
    Peace.

  23. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    At some stage someone will point at the number of press conferences GoRoB had and claim it was being transparent.

    At that time someone else will have to point out that these press conferences were not to present new information but instead to clean-up a mess.

    In fact, these press conferences can be seen as more of a cover-up than being transparent.

    Oh Lawd, can you tell me how they can get everything wrong. Midas touch was to turn straw into gold. Mia touch is going to bring Barbados to ruin.

    Perhaps Freundel was right. The way we are going the lost decade will soon be seen as glorious years.

  24. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I noticed that nun-na ya all uses GoRoB.
    Wunna shame? Wunna used to write GoB. Do you know what is funny? GoRoB is apt.

  25. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “I can understand disagreeing with the blogmaster as opinions can differ, but I have difficulty with smearing and criticizing the only vehicle that is available for us to carpool in.”

    call it the PREFERED VEHICLE…

    and you don’t know there is any smear if you have no facts…

  26. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “In fact, these press conferences can be seen as more of a cover-up than being transparent.”

    that’s all they have ever been, whenever ya saw the fowls, pimps and slaves jumped out to attack….that’s all it is ever was always will be…..to DISTRACT and COVER UP…..

    now a ya got a sexpert fowl pretending to be a psychologist..

    at least the REAL psychologist knows she is no lawyer…

    “Quite frankly, we are being fed a lot of confusion to obfuscate the parents and by extension the country.”

    look out for more experts JUMPING OUT TO ADD TO THE CONFUSION…hopefully we get NO MORE fowl sexperts….to make them look even more foolish…

    “Politely , kindly say what you perceive to be the “ bigger picture” here.”

    indeed….the only bigger picture here is the one the DEVISERS have plotted to better THEIR OWN FUTURE and not those of Afrikan children and their parents……but ya done know the blind won’t see a thing…that’s why they are left out of any information….

    “had you been in possession of a sample as claimed, you would have posted it and pretended to be Miss Marple. Pass me with the BS. Y”

    keep fishing to see if i got the REAL DOCUMENT and not the SHITE YALL SENT to blog admin….minus the REAL NASTY STUFF…

  27. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    and i spend equal amounts of time on many platforms all across the world……of course time management makes sure i spend more time on mine…..so the sexpert fowl need to speak FOR ITSELF…ya only got BU….admit it…lol

  28. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    I would like to know the number of children who took the survey and those traumatised. Causen we love melodrama on BU. I can also tell that many of you are definitely my elders.

  29. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    when i listen to those 3 records, will tell ya what the REAL EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THAT sham…that yall now trying to WEASEL YASELVES OUT OF…and FAILING SPECTACULARLY….

  30. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    just don’t forget that those REAL EXPERTS said it on a very popular radio in London with THOUSANDS of listeners….wunnah cahn cover up nutten…

  31. Norris Avatar
    Norris

    I would like to know the number of children who took the survey and those traumatised. Causen we love melodrama on BU. I can also tell that many of you are definitely my elders.

    XXXXXXXXXXX

    You sound like the idiot young boy who has done nothing to prove himself and has no track record except being a BLP stool pigeon and speaking on a BLP platform when he was 13 who partisan fools want to act as he is credible when all he is merely an empty vessel and parrot.

  32. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Mia told the Queen of England (R.i.P) to sling her hook

    Will she tell the CIA whoops sorry I mean the bent NGO code.org and Inter-American Development Bank to get the fuck out of dodge before sunset

    Nobody Nobody disrespects the Bajans and lives to see another day

    She’s Tuff / The Fabulous Thunderbirds

    You oughta see my baby when she walk down the street
    Upsettin’ everybody she meet
    She’s twenty-three in the waist, thirty-eight in the hips
    She got long black wavy hair and ruby-red lips

    She’s tuff
    Ooh, she’s tuff
    My baby’s tuff, she ruff and tuff
    And that’s tuff enough

    She walk past a clock
    The clock won’t tell time
    She walk through the college
    Professor lose his mind

    ‘Cause she’s tuff
    Ooh, she’s tuff
    My baby’s tuff, she ruff and tuff
    And that’s tuff enough

    The President said to my baby, “Come here, sweetheart
    You can stop a world war even before it start
    We know the enemy won’t pull the trigger
    When they walk out on the front line and they see your fine figure”

    ‘Cause you tuff
    Ooh, she’s tuff
    My baby’s tuff, she ruff and tuff
    And that’s tuff enough

    And that’s tuff enough
    And that’s tuff enough
    And that’s tuff enough

  33. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Enuff October 8, 2022 7:27 AM “Cuhdear. Development is not confined to your narrow view.”

    Your idiotic statement does not deserve an answer.

  34. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @Theo re “And that is really the part of your post that bothers me. The line must be drawn somewhere. What is your cut-off age for when children can be asked by strangers about sex, drugs and transgenderism? Five?”

    The only children who need to be interviewed/surveyed on that subject matter at such a young age would be those who have been abused … so of course the stranger would be a medical professional in a likely criminal and/or civil suit situation.

    This is about 11 year olds in a modern society existing in a very pervasive culture of drugs,sex and gangs being asked to give his/her impressions on what they see, understand and internalize about life around them … why is this so HARD to appreciate and accept that it’s more normal that it is an exception!

    For the umpteenth time we all agree the process was absurdly mismanaged and there was major lack of transparency. The survey itself is not shocking nor out of place in my view.

    @David there was obvious subterfuge here. I would relate this to Maloney’s covid drug purchase fiasco (as alluded to above by @Northern) for it’s abject lunacy. I do not believe that the MoE officials had any serious or intensive discussions with the survey contractors to remove questions … that’s a red herring!

    There is no practical way that in a 300 survey questionnaire where one can surmise that the contractors would have a data-bank of maybe 1,000 questions parsed and structured differently that it would not have been possible to remove and replace questions to suit the officials concerns … if it was a serious, professional and ethical process being done!

    BTW why are bloggers FOCUSING on the fact that the IADB were the sponsors of the survey. Putting aside the accepted matter of the subterfuge and lack of transparency the Bank’s mandate is not all related to financial matters… in fact many projects have nothing to do with that atall. Why are we so quick to get into this conspiracy BS!

  35. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    The Prime Minister should fire the Minister of Education.

    Or better still the Minister “should fall on her sword”

  36. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    If the PM does not fire the Minister, then for the love of her party she should remember that the people of Barbados fired:

    Grantley Adams
    Erroll Barrow
    Bree St, John
    Erskine Sandiford
    Owen Arthur
    Fruendel Stuart

    Perhaps we would have fired Tom Adams and David Thompson too if they had not died in office. Prime Ministers of Barbados unlike its civil servants are not made of asbestos. The people of Barbados fire PM’s ALL the time. It is a routine t’ing fah we.

  37. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    The gist of any rock solid bonafide Conspiracy Theory is..
    … it was the C.I.A.

    Forget Me Nots (12″ Version)

  38. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    We all know very well that this test could not be given in the EU, UK, or USA, so the IADB pick on Barbados, Belize and Jamaica because they have difficulty collecting data from elsewhere and they know that they can ABUSIVELY extract data from poor third world children. And the people we pay well to look after our children’s interest are complicit in allowing this abuse of our children.

    I mean what sort of irresponsible, disrespectful, stupid people/organization asks 11 year olds in they have symptoms of schizophrenia [seeing and hearing things that other people cannot see or hear] and then asks these small children to attach their full names and birth dates, and the names of their school to the answer sheet? And some of these children may not even have been 11, since ever year a dozen or so children take the 11+ at age 10. So I expect that at least a few on these children were only 10, that is in USA terms grade 5 pupils.

    No way could they ask these questions of the mostly white children in the mostly white rich countries. Could not happen in the USA because HIPAA forbids it, Should not have happened here because NONE of these children were old enough to consent to the disclosure of their health information, and no parent’s were asked to consent on their child’s behalf. No wonder code.org distanced themselves quickly because they know that if it is ILLEGAL to collect such information in the USA then surely it it UNETHICAL to collect it outside of the USA, and no respectable NGO or its big shot funders wants to be caught with their ethical pants down.

    America’s Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that required the creation of national standards TO PROTECT SENSITIVE PATIENT HEALTH INFORMATION FROM BEING DISCLOSED WITHOUT THE PATIENT’S CONSENT OR KNOWLEDGE.

  39. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    In the European Union The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) recognises DATA CONCERNING HEALTH AS A SPECIAL CATEGORY OF DATA and provides a definition for health data for DATA PROTECTION purposes.

    And yet the IADB asked hundreds of our children to answer if they hear voices and see things and to put their first, middle and last names, their dates of birth and their school names on their replies to such questions. And some “experts” in the IADB though that such questions asked of 10 and 11 year CHILDREN WITHOUT THEIR PARENTS CONSENT is ok?

    Somebody or some people at IADB need to be fired too,

  40. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    In the UK, the legal frameworks covering how patient data must be looked after and processed are the Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018, which brought the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into law, and the Common Law Duty of Confidentiality (CLDC).

  41. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Shiite..
    Now the ‘Minister’ appears and claims that she “stopped the process as soon as she found out about the issue’…

    So the damn Ministry running itself?

    A shiite survey being done across the school system with questions claimed to have been OBJECTED TO by her Ministry – and she had to play catch-up to ‘stop the process’ after the poor children had completed and handed in the 300-question test?

    Darn place is being run by idiots!
    No wonder every thing is turning into jobby.

    Obviously, she won’t resign, since that would suggest some level of ‘decency and decorum’.
    But even if she did, no doubt the Supreme leader would find another moron willing to follow orders to the Tee – no matter how idiotic those instructions are….

    Becomes much clearer why Bostic ducked out…..

    Serious David …. It soon done!!!

  42. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Barbados passes data protection act
    Barbados has become one of the first English-speaking jurisdictions in the Caribbean to pass a GDPR-like data protection law
    Global Data Review, August 14, 2019
    https://globaldatareview.com/article/barbados-passes-data-protection-act

    The collection, storage and dissemination of the information collected from the children about their health was ILLEGAL under Barbados law, and is especially egregious as it was done without parental consent, and the test was administered using a HIGHLY DECEPTIVE “Computer Science” title. The Minister of Education is not a lawyer, but she has plenty of legal collegues in Cabinet, Did Cabinet know about this? Did the Minister consult her Cabinet collegues? Did she consult any of the many lawyers in the Attorney General’s Office? If not, why not?

    After the data protection law was passed by this administration, by this current honorable House, so it is not as though they all don’t know what the law says.

  43. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @ Bush Tea October 8, 2022 9:31 PM

    I cannot see any misconduct on the part of our Honourable Minister here at all. The questions were withdrawn before evaluation. No one has suffered any harm. Our government has once again shown that it acts with lightning speed for the benefit of its citizens.

    Time to end the topic and get back to more important things, such as our wonderful growth of GDP in 2022 or the great international reputation of our Supreme Leader.

  44. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @DPD “The survey itself is not shocking nor out of place in my view.”

    So in North America where you live can a child be asked about whether he/she hears voices or sees things that others cannot hear or see and can these questions be asked without parental consent and can that child be demanded to put its answer in writing and to attach its first name, middle name, last name date of birth and school name to the questionnaire?

    You can answer me “yes” or “no”

  45. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ William

    I agree with you and as I said above no one seemed to have caught these questions BEFORE they were presented to the children. That to me is a major concern, as someone at some level should have reviewed the questions before passing them on to the kids. I see that as a major failure.

    I still feel we are owed n explanation from the IADB as to what the goal was for this questionnaire. If they were able to offer us an explanation that makes sense, then we could at least say well we understand the objective however we object strongly to any questions related to activities of the children, be they of a sexual or personal nature.

    My biggest disappointment is that no one has come out and said to us what the objective of the survey was. I feel we need to be told this. If the answer does not come from the IADB then let the ministry pursue the matter and seek the answers. Yes we hear your apology, but we want to know what was the objective.

    It is the deafening silence on this answer that offends me the most in light of all that has occured.

  46. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Bush Tea October 8, 2022 9:31 PM “Now the ‘Minister’ appears and claims that she “stopped the process as soon as she found out about the issue.”

    The Minister may well be speaking the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but I am under no obligation to believe her.

    I don’t believe her.

    I believe that the test asking about mental health and other very sensitive issues was stopped because some parents kicked up a big fat stink.

    The rest o’ wunna can believe whatever you want to believe.

  47. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    “My biggest disappointment is that no one has come out and said to us what the objective of the survey was. I feel we need to be told this. If the answer does not come from the IADB then let the ministry pursue the matter and seek the answers. Yes we hear your apology, but we want to know what was the objective.”

    Do you think that these dubious agencies that asked the children dubious personal questions will answer your questions about their questions

  48. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/10/08/education-minister-accepts-responsibility-following-survey-debacle/
    Education Minister accepts responsibility following survey debacle

    “MCCONNEY SAID THAT SHE HERSELF KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THE SURVEY BEFORE TUESDAY, where Chief Education Officer, Dr Ramona Archer-Bradshaw, called her during the sitting of Parliament to inform her that news of the controversial questions in [the] test had started to reach Ministry officials..and I want you to know that the data collection instrument, which had the offending questions, was stopped …WHEN THE CHIEF AND I DISCOVERED THAT THESE SURVEYS WERE BEING DONE.”

    From my reading of this report in Barbados Today I get the impression that neither the Minister or the Chief Education Officer WHO ARE BOTH PAID OUT OF THE PARENTS TAX MONEY knew that these surveys were being done. Very, very strange.

    Question: If neither the Minister or the CEO knew about the surveys since we are reading about their “discovering” then please tell us EXACTLY who knew?

    Somebody lower in the educational ranks?

    Or somebody much higher in the political ranks?

    Because somebody HAD TO KNOW.

    The question WHO IS THAT PERSON?

  49. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @ Cuhdear Bajan October 8, 2022 10:35 PM

    Barbadian children have been deeply traumatised by the mask terror since March 2020. Many irreparably. Questions like those discussed are legitimate in this situation. I would have liked to see more questions about their parents’ political stance, their patriotism towards the state and the party, and questions about the Corona vaccination as a test of loyalty. I even think it is lawful for our government to make social benefits (school, hospital, etc.) dependent on the answers to such questions in the future. Our Big Sister needs to know everything so that she can understand us better.

    However, let us change the topic. Enough spoken about about some small glitch in the well-oiled wheels of our great government.

  50. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    The Minister said she knew nothing of the test before Tuesday
    She stated the survey was stopped when she and the Chief Education Officer discovered they were being done
    Imagine a Minister not knowing these test were being done before Tuesday.
    Imagine the Minister talking about she and the Chief Education Officer “ discovering “ they were being done.
    What on earth is she really saying ? That complete strangers walked into our schools, and psychologically abused our children without the prior knowledge of the two highest ranking people in the Ministry of Education.
    The question must therefore be asked :
    Who gave permission to do these tests
    Why did nether she nor the Chief know.
    Is our country a banana republic or what?
    The Minister and the Chief should be fired.
    The introduction by the PM of some ethics committee is pure political PR crap.
    “
    “The Minister may well be speaking the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but I am under no obligation to believe her.
    I don’t believe her.”’( CuhdearBajan)
    I agree with you. In my opinion the Minister’s statement is pure hogwash. It appears to be a cover up.
    Quite frankly the entire statement is nebulous mumbo jumbo. Any alert second form student could bore holds in the nonsensical diatribe.
    More to come.
    Peace.

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