The Group of Concerned Parents, Barbados
The Regional Coalition for CXC Exam Redress
The COVID-19 Pandemic has served to reveal pre-existing inequities and challenges within our societies. It has ripped the scab off of the wound that is our societal ills.
Similarly, the 2020 CXC Exam Fiasco from September 2020′, has revealed to the entire region what teachers and principals have been combating for years: evidence of CXC’s inadequate core values, governance, performance targets, technical competence, quality assurance, communications, stakeholder engagement and accountability.
There have been flawed grades which have seen entire classes of students disadvantaged (Communication Studies, 2018 and thereafter, Caribbean Studies, 2020), intransigence and arrogance, poor and even non-responsive communications. The grade review process prior to 2020 appeared to penalise students who asked for grade reviews: some ended up with even worse grades on review, with no recourse! The review process was also recently reducedto a mere re-addition of computer generated scores – for the same fee.