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The group, Watch Out My Children, will be staging a march and rally on Saturday. Starting at 10 a.m., the march will proceed from Kensington car park, through the City, to National Heroes’ Square where the rally will take place. Educator and activist Marcia Weekes made the announcement during a media briefing at Praise Academy on Wednesday. The objective of the march is to highlight the concerns raised by parents …
“We are not making much ado about nothing.” That was the way organisers of the Watch Out My Children Rally responded to critics who questioned why they were still protesting months after the controversial InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) survey was administered to hundreds of children. Entertainer Sean ‘Apache’ Carter, who along with Marcia Weekes are members of the rally’s committee, said that because laws such as the Data Protection Act …
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on Monday made clear it is not trying to get controversial Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) into local schools through the back door.In fact, the Washington-based institution told Barbados TODAY on Monday that it “has no other agenda than to support youth development through the strengthening of public education policies and programmes” in this country.CSE, a curriculum-based process of teaching and learning about the cognitive, emotional, physical and social aspects of sexuality, has faced resistance in the United States and other Caribbean countries amid concern that it promotes sexual education in an unhealthy and disruptive manner.Questions were raised about the possibility of the IDB trying to slip CSE into the school curriculum after revelations that a survey administered without parental approval to first-formers in five secondary schools, as part of a Computer Science project the lending agency is administering, included ques
An apology by the Ministry of Education is not enough. This was the sentiment conveyed by educator Marcia Weekes as she staged a one-woman protest against the use of the controversial survey administered by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Standing on the sidewalk at the junction between Crumpton Street and the Constitution River Terminal in Bridgetown, Weekes gained attention with a large sign that included the slogans “Apology is NOT …