President of the Barbados Evangelical Association (BEA) Dr Nigel Taylor has questioned the rationale behind the highly controversial Computer Science pretest given to 11-year-olds.In an interview with Barbados TODAY, he said he was “very concerned” with the recent revelation that first-form secondary school students were asked questions about their sexuality and gender identity in the test which was administered by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and sanctioned by the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training.He said he had been inundated with calls from the BEA’s 60 000 membership ever since the news broke that the minors had been made to take the test without their parents’ knowledge.Dr Taylor said he was at a loss as to the reasoning behind asking such inappropriate questions.“Having seen the questions, it is concerning. It really is concerning on multiple points. It also shows that one must always have a degree of integrity when you are coming
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