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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
In what sort of mad coalition does Diane Abbot get a cabinet seat after the next election?Volvoclaret wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2023 10:42 pmDon't worry guys, after the next election Diane Abbott will be in charge of education and all kids will be sent to public schools.
tbh it's very doubtful that she will hold onto her seat if she decides to stand as an independent.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Wow!
Alternatively, if "every school had a KB" we'd create the biggest rat race since Maggie sold £20 notes for a fiver apiece and created 10 million Warren Buffet wannabes overnight.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Shame to see someone falling apart in public but KB is a total horror so, y'know. She should be kept as far away from education as possible.
Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
She appears to have a very good record of taking pupils from very poor backgrounds and giving them the tools to get good jobs. But that clearly can't be what you mean by a rat race, because a rat race is a general bad thing. She has said, actually, that being a secretary doesn't mean you've failed in life, so she isn't all about Warren Buffet.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Imagine having good schools everywhere, rather the resources poured into private schools and ones run by media personalities
That would be great wouldn't it?
That would be great wouldn't it?
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
I don't think her school became good simply because of the TV programme that said what a good school it was. Surely she became a media personality simply because of the state of her school.Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 7:24 amImagine having good schools everywhere, rather the resources poured into private schools and ones run by media personalities
That would be great wouldn't it?
There's more to money that makes a good school.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Ms. Birbalsingh is an expert too. I'm confident jdrobbo is a very good teacher but whatever his disagreements with KB's methods are, it's a disagreement and nothing else.Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2023 9:58 pmI'd listen to what Jd says btw, its quite important to listen to experts
That's fine. Disagreement is ok. But state the nature of the disagreement instead of branding the opposite side as "disgraceful" or whatever word was used.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
This is something I'm happy to look into, once I'm back from holiday next week.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
But there ARE schools everywhere, and they receive funding based on the same formulas.Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 7:24 amImagine having good schools everywhere, rather the resources poured into private schools and ones run by media personalities
That would be great wouldn't it?
They're not all good though. Comprehensives are notoriously average.
Katherine Birbalsingh's school, on the other hand, is exceptional.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Funding is not based on the same formulae...
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Beat me to it. Absolutely not.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Delderfield's excellent trilogy "To Serve Them All My Days" offers an enduring and intuitive analysis of the contrast between a driven, achieving and ultimately despotic headmaster and the central character DPJ with his holistic/bigger-picture approach.
I'd recommend it to everyone who'd like an entertaining and objective view of school leadership.
I'd recommend it to everyone who'd like an entertaining and objective view of school leadership.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Indeed it will and, of course, just as interesting to see whether this success can be sustained, how much teacher turnover there will be, given the massive recruitment problems that are beginning to surface and how, if and when standards decline, how Ofsted will react.Rowls wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 1:21 pmI think the constant misrepresentation of Katherine Birbalsingh is evident in this thread.
It's puzzling because the results suggest her school is doing an outstanding job?
People will now be able to see for themselves and make their own minds up. It'll be interesting to see how the school is achieving these results.
Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
I very briefly flicked through her twitter yesterday (highly amused by the protests that the National Conservatism jamboree wasn't political and she shouldn't be judged by the company she keeps) and one comment that was a throwaway from her but leaped out at me was "boasting" that the school had SLT meetings at 7am. I'd be surprised if that kind of thing was sustainable without significant staff turnover. I know a few teachers who have been at schools like that when they are expecting Ofsted or new heads have come in and although it works for a few years things either scale back to a more realistic timetable or people leave.evensteadiereddie wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 9:50 amIndeed it will and, of course, just as interesting to see whether this success can be sustained, how much teacher turnover there will be, given the massive recruitment problems that are beginning to surface and how, if and when standards decline, how Ofsted will react.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
SLT meetings at 7 a.m! I wouldn't like to work there. The best-run school I taught in was in a Brent girls' school in the '80s. Headed by a real old-school type, a fierce Yorkshire woman who put the sh1ts up everyone, including the head of the adjacent boys' school. The worst head was another fierce type in more modern times in an academy. Appalling man-management skills.aggi wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 10:01 amI very briefly flicked through her twitter yesterday (highly amused by the protests that the National Conservatism jamboree wasn't political and she shouldn't be judged by the company she keeps) and one comment that was a throwaway from her but leaped out at me was "boasting" that the school had SLT meetings at 7am. I'd be surprised if that kind of thing was sustainable without significant staff turnover. I know a few teachers who have been at schools like that when they are expecting Ofsted or new heads have come in and although it works for a few years things either scale back to a more realistic timetable or people leave.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
it is funny btw that the todays reason that Rowls can't back anything up he says is that he's on holiday
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
It's the British 'thing', politicians, sports stars, TV personalities. We build them up, and are then determined to pull them down. It seems successful teachers now get the same treatment.
I confess I haven't watched the programme, or read the majority of this thread, there's no need really as the same polar opposites will be arguing the same one sided rhetoric.
I would only say that teachers should be judged by results. You don't make an omelette without breaking eggs. You don't educate children without upsetting someone in this modern over sensitive society. If her results are outstanding, then as far as I'm concerned, she's an outstanding teacher.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Possibly but, given the problems of recruitment, teacher burnout and so on, there is no chance of this type of "success" being replicated realistically on a widespread, nationwide scale.
People like Ringo, for instance, would have to vote for much greater resources being put into staff recruitment and retention, infrastructure and so on but they wouldn't.its much easier to point to a gimmick like this and assume if it can be done there, it can be done everywhere.
People like Ringo, for instance, would have to vote for much greater resources being put into staff recruitment and retention, infrastructure and so on but they wouldn't.its much easier to point to a gimmick like this and assume if it can be done there, it can be done everywhere.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Just a quick reminder that this superstar of the teaching profession, the poster girl of every Nat-C member out there, believed that kids were identifying as cats, and continued to believe that even after about 20000 people sent her "evidence" (normally a picture of their cat)
Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Just retired after nearly 40 years teaching in secondary schools.
Left prematurely because of poor behaviour, first and foremost, but also lack of support from senior staff and parents, lack of autonomy and workload. I would have given my eye teeth to work for Katherine Birbalsingh.
To see the majority of kids in a particular class having their education severely affected because schools are scared to address the behaviour of a disruptive minority (and their unsupportive parents) is frustrating beyond words.
Rowle may not have children but it does n't stop his comments being spot on.
Left prematurely because of poor behaviour, first and foremost, but also lack of support from senior staff and parents, lack of autonomy and workload. I would have given my eye teeth to work for Katherine Birbalsingh.
To see the majority of kids in a particular class having their education severely affected because schools are scared to address the behaviour of a disruptive minority (and their unsupportive parents) is frustrating beyond words.
Rowle may not have children but it does n't stop his comments being spot on.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Echos what my kids have told me.Uwe Noble wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 12:46 pmJust retired after nearly 40 years teaching in secondary schools.
Left prematurely because of poor behaviour, first and foremost, but also lack of support from senior staff and parents, lack of autonomy and workload. I would have given my eye teeth to work for Katherine Birbalsingh.
To see the majority of kids in a particular class having their education severely affected because schools are scared to address the behaviour of a disruptive minority (and their unsupportive parents) is frustrating beyond words.
Rowle may not have children but it does n't stop his comments being spot on.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
DNHOTY awards contender
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Love the idea that she's being misrepresented. She's doing a fine job of representing herself in the worst possible light without any assistance from anyone on here.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
There is some truth in this.
I retired 6 years ago having done 40 years teaching English and serving a good number of those as Head of Years 8 and 9.
A pretty challenging school but firm yet fair decent heads and a mix of well established and dynamic young staff improved the school immeasurably.
This fetish of running the school like some kind of boor camp is not necessary and, indeed, most schools recognise this and attempt to give their kids a chance, something we'd all agree upon, I'm sure.
The problem is and this where I had some pretty major disagreements with my last Head is the line of tolerance.
There were indeed a number of kids who could not or would not adapt to our school's ethos.
Fair enough and I'm all for being inclusive but how much rope do you give these characters.?
I always used to argue that we give the kid and the parents two terms to let us get them sorted or they look elsewhere.
As above, I'd heard the stories of kids going home and relating to their parents how yet another lesson had been made difficult by one of these characters.
It was the cumulative damage that irritated me.
I have to say I got no satisfaction from the occasions I was proved right when said miscreants were expelled eventually probably two years too late.
The other parts of classroom teaching and being a Head of Year? One. of the best jobs in the world.
I retired 6 years ago having done 40 years teaching English and serving a good number of those as Head of Years 8 and 9.
A pretty challenging school but firm yet fair decent heads and a mix of well established and dynamic young staff improved the school immeasurably.
This fetish of running the school like some kind of boor camp is not necessary and, indeed, most schools recognise this and attempt to give their kids a chance, something we'd all agree upon, I'm sure.
The problem is and this where I had some pretty major disagreements with my last Head is the line of tolerance.
There were indeed a number of kids who could not or would not adapt to our school's ethos.
Fair enough and I'm all for being inclusive but how much rope do you give these characters.?
I always used to argue that we give the kid and the parents two terms to let us get them sorted or they look elsewhere.
As above, I'd heard the stories of kids going home and relating to their parents how yet another lesson had been made difficult by one of these characters.
It was the cumulative damage that irritated me.
I have to say I got no satisfaction from the occasions I was proved right when said miscreants were expelled eventually probably two years too late.
The other parts of classroom teaching and being a Head of Year? One. of the best jobs in the world.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
every school is clearly different, but my kids school puts a lot of resources into pastoral care, so attract a fair few more "difficult" kids than if the norm, and still manage to be one of the best schools in the area
I'd argue till the kids come home that if you properly fund education, then you can minimise the damage that can be done by disruptive pupils
But I also take on board Uwes point about not having the support required (as that can happen in any environment, and it makes the job so much harder)
I believe that the vast majority of kids, parents, teachers, headteachers want to enjoy and work as hard as possible at school and there are many ways of achieving that, but I'm not sold on the idea that the way KB is doing it is the correct way
I'd argue till the kids come home that if you properly fund education, then you can minimise the damage that can be done by disruptive pupils
But I also take on board Uwes point about not having the support required (as that can happen in any environment, and it makes the job so much harder)
I believe that the vast majority of kids, parents, teachers, headteachers want to enjoy and work as hard as possible at school and there are many ways of achieving that, but I'm not sold on the idea that the way KB is doing it is the correct way
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Keep burying your head in the sand.
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I'm not at all sold on the idea that there is "the correct way" to bring up children. For one thing, I reckon there are several correct ways; for another, not all children should be brought up the same way because children aren't all the same.Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 1:19 pmevery school is clearly different, but my kids school puts a lot of resources into pastoral care, so attract a fair few more "difficult" kids than if the norm, and still manage to be one of the best schools in the area
I'd argue till the kids come home that if you properly fund education, then you can minimise the damage that can be done by disruptive pupils
But I also take on board Uwes point about not having the support required (as that can happen in any environment, and it makes the job so much harder)
I believe that the vast majority of kids, parents, teachers, headteachers want to enjoy and work as hard as possible at school and there are many ways of achieving that, but I'm not sold on the idea that the way KB is doing it is the correct way
Surely the way forward is to have lots of schools doing much more their own thing, with lots of parental choice about where they send the children, and the schools that can't attract children will shut down. Closing down the bad schools is much more the way forward than closing down the good ones.
Funding isn't the big issue here. When my mother started teaching (infant school) she had 50 in her class and no classroom assistants, sitting two to a desk, and writing on slates because they hadn't enough paper. If standards of learning and behaviour are not vastly better now than they were in 1952, then it's not just because of money. There are other very significant factors.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
I've got kids
I talk to them about stuff that is real
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
I think it might be some time ago that you sent your kids to school DSR!dsr wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 1:24 pmI'm not at all sold on the idea that there is "the correct way" to bring up children. For one thing, I reckon there are several correct ways; for another, not all children should be brought up the same way because children aren't all the same.
Surely the way forward is to have lots of schools doing much more their own thing, with lots of parental choice about where they send the children, and the schools that can't attract children will shut down. Closing down the bad schools is much more the way forward than closing down the good ones.
Funding isn't the big issue here. When my mother started teaching (infant school) she had 50 in her class and no classroom assistants, sitting two to a desk, and writing on slates because they hadn't enough paper. If standards of learning and behaviour are not vastly better now than they were in 1952, then it's not just because of money. There are other very significant factors.
The issue these days is that the good schools are massively over-subscribed and the bad ones end up with kids who can't be arsed, can't afford to go anywhere else or just can't get to other schools
And I completely disagree with you about funding, the more money that gets put in, the better the schools are. All the schools now ask for contributions to do almost anything, and if you can afford it, you try to help them out because you know how hard it is for schools and education at the moment
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
So do I, as others have said, lessons are disrupted by the same kids and the ones who want to learn, suffer because of it.Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 1:26 pmI've got kids
I talk to them about stuff that is real
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
I would agree completely with putting more resources into state education (though not at the expense of the vital private sector without which the taxpayer would be paying a fortune more, if those taxpayers want to pay into education twice we should let them).
What I struggle with though is discipline. This isn’t resource dependent to the large degree, it is more about values.
We believe in firm discipline and would only choose a school that has it. That means an uniform is essential, cheekiness to teachers and bullying is stamped out hard, lunch is had sat at a dinner table, mobile phones need to be banned (we don’t even let ours have one), kids cannot leave the school grounds.
Friends of ours with kids in various local schools say much of that doesn’t happen at their school. That’s why I applaud the approach of KBS, annoying and self promoting though she is.
What I struggle with though is discipline. This isn’t resource dependent to the large degree, it is more about values.
We believe in firm discipline and would only choose a school that has it. That means an uniform is essential, cheekiness to teachers and bullying is stamped out hard, lunch is had sat at a dinner table, mobile phones need to be banned (we don’t even let ours have one), kids cannot leave the school grounds.
Friends of ours with kids in various local schools say much of that doesn’t happen at their school. That’s why I applaud the approach of KBS, annoying and self promoting though she is.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Ah, with you now, assumed you were supporting the whole idea, rather than making a point that the same kids can be an issueclaretandy wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 1:36 pmSo do I, as others have said, lessons are disrupted by the same kids and the ones who want to learn, suffer because of it.
I still think there are other ways of dealing with it than the extreme version of KB
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
My kids school has all of that, and its nothing like a KBS approachCrosspoolClarets wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 1:39 pmI would agree completely with putting more resources into state education (though not at the expense of the vital private sector without which the taxpayer would be paying a fortune more, if those taxpayers want to pay into education twice we should let them).
What I struggle with though is discipline. This isn’t resource dependent to the large degree, it is more about values.
We believe in firm discipline and would only choose a school that has it. That means an uniform is essential, cheekiness to teachers and bullying is stamped out hard, lunch is had sat at a dinner table, mobile phones need to be banned (we don’t even let ours have one), kids cannot leave the school grounds.
Friends of ours with kids in various local schools say much of that doesn’t happen at their school. That’s why I applaud the approach of KBS, annoying and self promoting though she is.
Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
The obvious question here is what are outstanding results?Colburn_Claret wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 10:36 amIt's the British 'thing', politicians, sports stars, TV personalities. We build them up, and are then determined to pull them down. It seems successful teachers now get the same treatment.
I confess I haven't watched the programme, or read the majority of this thread, there's no need really as the same polar opposites will be arguing the same one sided rhetoric.
I would only say that teachers should be judged by results. You don't make an omelette without breaking eggs. You don't educate children without upsetting someone in this modern over sensitive society. If her results are outstanding, then as far as I'm concerned, she's an outstanding teacher.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
For a headteacher she spends an amazing amount of time on Twitter arguing.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
There are many ways to skin a cat so to speak, just like there seem to be many ways to identify as oneLancasterclaret wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 1:43 pmMy kids school has all of that, and its nothing like a KBS approach
Anecdotally I feel your school must be a rarity, I am guessing out of a big city, it seems rarer in the inner cities like where I live.
The only thing I care about is what any child of mine will be like when they get spat out at the end of the conveyer as a young adult, and how that affects their happiness and success in life. Happy with any approach as long as it delivers the outcomes I believe in, which I listed in my post yesterday.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Never heard of her until recently, one thing that did stand out is that her and Jess Phillips are 2 people you would hate to be in the company of.
I bet most of us have a teacher or 2 they would have liked the chance to say something anonymously to online as a kid
I bet most of us have a teacher or 2 they would have liked the chance to say something anonymously to online as a kid
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Well, there were a couple of girls at Edge End who were absolute corkers in the Sixth Form and were even hotter when they returned as teachers, a couple of years later.....
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
I'm not arguing lancs, I don't know any better, but she can think pigs can fly, as long as the kids are getting a good education.Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 12:29 pmJust a quick reminder that this superstar of the teaching profession, the poster girl of every Nat-C member out there, believed that kids were identifying as cats, and continued to believe that even after about 20000 people sent her "evidence" (normally a picture of their cat)
Glenn Hoddle was my favourite England manager, played brilliant football, hounded out of the job for having a belief I didn't share, which wasn't articulated well, to say the least, but had absolutely no bearing on his ability to do the job.
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
I dunno CC, I think the way she acts on twitter and some of the stuff she comes out with suggests otherwise!Colburn_Claret wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 3:12 pmI'm not arguing lancs, I don't know any better, but she can think pigs can fly, as long as the kids are getting a good education.
Glenn Hoddle was my favourite England manager, played brilliant football, hounded out of the job for having a belief I didn't share, which wasn't articulated well, to say the least, but had absolutely no bearing on his ability to do the job.
But yeah, not worth the argument - she just isn't my cup of tea and I don't think I'd be comfortable having my kids in that enviroment, but others may well think differently
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Either they were on a fast track, or maths wasn't your strongest subjectevensteadiereddie wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 3:08 pmWell, there were a couple of girls at Edge End who were absolute corkers in the Sixth Form and were even hotter when they returned as teachers, a couple of years later.....
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
I was about 12 or 13, they were in the Sixth Form and would be 18 when they left, returning to teach when they were 21 or 22. Both called Christine funnily enough.
I went on to the Sixth Form and they returned so the maths is bang on.
I even got a grope off one of them at our Sixth Form do at an Inn near Blacko.
Highly illegal nowadays but I don't consider myself damaged from the er, experience...
I went on to the Sixth Form and they returned so the maths is bang on.
I even got a grope off one of them at our Sixth Form do at an Inn near Blacko.
Highly illegal nowadays but I don't consider myself damaged from the er, experience...
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
You don't have to believe I'm on holiday.Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 10:28 amit is funny btw that the todays reason that Rowls can't back anything up he says is that he's on holiday
Tremendous
It won't make a smidgeon of difference to me.
Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Cheers, it hadn't occurred to me that it would even have a wikipedia page to be honest.
Although what you've linked to the value-added (progress) score at GCSE was the highest for any school in England is entirely different to what you said She is managing the school in England with the highest GCSE scores (graded against social background)..
Still very good (and more important in some ways) but I assume you can see the potential issues in rolling that model out to other schools. There is a lot of debate around progress scores and the usefulness of them as one off indicators (part of the reason why they present them with such hefty confidence intervals) and that is further exacerbated by COVID impact.
I'm sure she's a good head on a small scale, what I don't agree with is your suggestion that based on her/the school's very limited track record we should be taking this as a blueprint for all schools. Just like I wouldn't be advocating rolling out the methods of Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School which performs similarly (if not better).
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
I have spent quite a long time monitoring her interactions with fellow teachers on social media over the last six or seven months. Many of her tweets have been deleted but a five minute search will guide you to many posts that still remain. The thing that I find disturbing most here is how she appears to treat people within the profession… Like they were dirt on the bottom of her shoe, in some examples.
What I also would like to question is her methodology behind commanding respect. I’m not going to slam it down, because different schools take different approaches, and I dare say there are excellent features within her philosophy, but what I would say, is highlighting social deprivation as a means for extremely strict discipline, is not something that I necessarily agree with….
Clear rules and boundaries - yes… Respect for everyone - yes… Sanctions for lack of compliance - yes. Zero tolerance on a number of issues - yes.
I do feel as though I’m in a good place to comment… I’m just about to finish my 18th year at the same school in an incredibly challenging inner-city area. At some stages throughout this period, my place of work has been situated in an area that has been in the bottom 1% (one percent) nationwide for social deprivation.
It’s tough, it’s bloody tough, but that doesn’t necessarily mean children come to school to be badly behaved or that they’re always hard work.
We give everything we have to give the children the best possible chance and shot at life… everything!
We’ve had boys in our fashion club, children of all ages, playing steel pans… full key stage choirs (120 children), boys in the netball team… Girls in the football team… Opportunities and love, wherever it is possible. Talents nurtured and allowed to blossom.
Our attendance for the last decade has been over 97% in every single year, apart from during the pandemic. This year and last, it’s over 98%. We make our school a place that children like to come.
Our results? They have been above national average for seven of the last eight years… Above national average!!! And as an added extra, many of our children arrive from Eritrean and Ethiopian backgrounds, having barely spoken a word of English before reaching four years of age. Their entry points are as low as they come!!
Suspensions? One child in the last 12 years.
Exclusions? None.
We don’t send children into isolation if they can’t afford their dinner money… we make them something different and we teach them the volume of good food and money!! We trust that they will eventually pay what is owed… And we very rarely have a problem, getting the money back!
There are a number of ways to skin a cat, so please forgive me for not showing much support for this alternative approach. Just because some areas are unbelievably difficult… There are several ways to garner respect. I’d like to think that all the children I have taught, and their parents, will respect me for that!
What I also would like to question is her methodology behind commanding respect. I’m not going to slam it down, because different schools take different approaches, and I dare say there are excellent features within her philosophy, but what I would say, is highlighting social deprivation as a means for extremely strict discipline, is not something that I necessarily agree with….
Clear rules and boundaries - yes… Respect for everyone - yes… Sanctions for lack of compliance - yes. Zero tolerance on a number of issues - yes.
I do feel as though I’m in a good place to comment… I’m just about to finish my 18th year at the same school in an incredibly challenging inner-city area. At some stages throughout this period, my place of work has been situated in an area that has been in the bottom 1% (one percent) nationwide for social deprivation.
It’s tough, it’s bloody tough, but that doesn’t necessarily mean children come to school to be badly behaved or that they’re always hard work.
We give everything we have to give the children the best possible chance and shot at life… everything!
We’ve had boys in our fashion club, children of all ages, playing steel pans… full key stage choirs (120 children), boys in the netball team… Girls in the football team… Opportunities and love, wherever it is possible. Talents nurtured and allowed to blossom.
Our attendance for the last decade has been over 97% in every single year, apart from during the pandemic. This year and last, it’s over 98%. We make our school a place that children like to come.
Our results? They have been above national average for seven of the last eight years… Above national average!!! And as an added extra, many of our children arrive from Eritrean and Ethiopian backgrounds, having barely spoken a word of English before reaching four years of age. Their entry points are as low as they come!!
Suspensions? One child in the last 12 years.
Exclusions? None.
We don’t send children into isolation if they can’t afford their dinner money… we make them something different and we teach them the volume of good food and money!! We trust that they will eventually pay what is owed… And we very rarely have a problem, getting the money back!
There are a number of ways to skin a cat, so please forgive me for not showing much support for this alternative approach. Just because some areas are unbelievably difficult… There are several ways to garner respect. I’d like to think that all the children I have taught, and their parents, will respect me for that!
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Re: Britain's Strictest Headmistress - ITV, Sunday 22nd May 10:15pm
Beautifully put, jd.
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