In a written submission to the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the education system, several teachers of the Bishops’ High School are advocating for teachers to be paid to mark those School Based Assessments (SBAs) which are part of the requirement for the external examinations conducted by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC).
The teachers cite nine reasons which individually and collectively support their argument that teachers should receive financial compensation for marking the assessments.
“We propose a flat pay package for all teachers tasked with conducting the SBA, which is subject to review every three years. For each subject with a SBA component, a fixed sum of US$200 seems to be just about fair, considering the nature of the work involved and the fact that US$200 is roughly three times less than what the average marker gets for marking CXC exams,” the teachers say in their submission.
