A social activist is calling on Barbadians to stipulate that the Ministry of Education Technology and Vocational Training (METVT) remove gender neutrality as one of its core values in the National Grooming Policy. In a release to the media, Dave Weekes, who is also a filmmaker and part of the management of Praise Academy, says the inclusion, with no input from the public on “our children”, is another sign of …
When children return to the classroom on Tuesday, it will be under a new National Grooming Policy, an updated dress code for nursery, primary and secondary Government-operated schools. Minister of Education Kay McConney says it was long overdue and updates the previous Code of Discipline and Dress Code which is almost 30 years old. The full policy can be viewed at the Ministry’s website mes.gov.bb or its social media pages. …
Public primary and secondary schools will be fully reopened in Barbados on Tuesday without any Government-imposed COVID-19 restrictions. And Minister of Education Kay McConney says this will also signal a return to both social and physical activities during and after school. For the past three years, schools in Barbados operated under COVID-19 protocols which imposed distance among and between students and teachers, the wearing of masks was mandatory and sanitising …