Great Job! Except I wouldn't call our modern education system progressive, instead I'd call it regressive.

Katharine Birbalsingh is brilliant, strong and beautiful.

I'm proud to have her as my headmistress 😌

It's called DISCIPLINE - something that Western schools haven't seen in decades.

When I was at school, I was one of the shy ones, and both the teachers and my parents adopted a "just leave him alone, and some time, and it will be fine" attitude. I felt unwanted and invisible. The most popular ones dominate the "scene's", while others like me were put aside to collect dust. That I was teased didn't matter either. Nobody cared. When I joined a martial art club, I found dicipline, structure and a fixed set of rules of behaivour, which applied to EVERYONE. And the more time I spent with them, the more I liked it. Children need structures, something that will shape them into good people as they grow up, not all this "do whatever you want" culture.

I went to a school like this we need to go back to the way it was too much social engineering climate marches etc

What a magnificent woman, her school rejects the notion of feeling sorry for yourself, and proves that every one of us can be successful. All that it takes is a lot of application and the guidance of those who genuinely care for us. She totally disproves the notion that poor and/or disadvantaged children have no hope. I know that God will continue to bless her in her work of bringing out the best in these children. John Theisz Australia

When you have high expectations of children, they rise to the challenge. Children do what you expect of them. If you think they're losers they'll fulfil your expectation. If you treat them seriously they'll take themselves seriously.

Katharine Birbalsingh should the education minister in Briton

Excellent it is time she is copied nationwide

Katharine Birbalsingh reminds me of every committed and caring teacher I had in high school in the 1970s. The push back against the lunatics running education seems to have started in England. May the contagion spread quickly around the Anglosphere.

Wow, now that's a teacher!

Children will live down to your expectations. Modern progressive schools have very low expectations. Raise your expectations and the children will eagerly follow.

Well done madam.More power to your elbow I say.Reminds me of my school days 1946.

Lol. I love this woman. She nails it!

What an inspirational lady.

Her interview on The Rubin Report was excellent. Really supportive of this woman and her mission.

Another example of how hard work and consistency can yield outstanding academic results. So obvious.

whoever wrote the headline might want to attend for a while.

watch her interview on Dave Rubin, she's amazing. (I don't think she technically identified as a "conservative" back then), and damn she is still just as powerful as I remember her. amazing woman!!

I wish this woman had a school in Australia, I'd send my kid there in a heartbeat

Children can't learn in chaos.

I'll bet none of her students went on strike.

Great move,it takes a black lady to introduce old fashioned ideas, harder to call her a fascist or a bigot. Hopefully the more conservative minorities start to stand up and be counted.

The world had gone crazy! Why would anyone want to create problems for such a school and the children when they are getting such wonderful results?!

Good.... I rember she took a load of lefty abuse.

What an amazing woman, - all headteachers should follow her example.

The results speak for themselves

Standing ovation for this woman! Back to basics, discipline, structure and a preparedness to accept responsibility as a teacher instead of outsourcing teaching to the kids! Clone her and put her in charge of every indoctrination (oops, education) department across Australia and watch kids thrive instead of being encouraged to live in a state of victimhood and disempowerment.

Thank You Katharine! You are right on the correct timeline, we need more teachers like you!

You know somebody’s got it down when everything they say sounds absolutely obvious, simple and self-evident. That is a sign of absolute mastery over a subject.

Awsum lady ... class act ..... quality ... quality ..... quality ..... this is what the future needs ... wonderful news

Who'd a thunk the classical way of learning would actually work. It is worth pointing out that schools in the Asian tiger nations...Japan, S. Korea, Singapore...is quite strict, with uniforms and grooming rules being the norm, and results are excellent.

"Children will use any excuse to take a day off school." Thank you.

Disadvantaged does not equal stupid. As with all things, there is no black and white. I grew up in the same 'radical' system this woman is promoting. I agree that children by and large need an adult to direct them. However I think that system dismantled because some adults handed that authority were outright abusive. That system also caused a lot of angst for kids who simply were incapable of sitting in that fully structured system, adhd kids for example. It was that system that beat my good friend over the knuckles for needing to use her left hand. That effectively destroyed her development and self worth for life. Of course now it has gone the opposite way and the education system is pretty stuffed, depending where it is. The biggest thing now is flatlining all the kids to the lowest intellectual denominator, and diminishing the bright ones by making them serve the poorly behaved or less able. No funds are given to bolster the gifted. My kids were often used as teacher aides in class rather than being given more challenging work. So the best of both systems should be combined.

Well said sister. You are beautiful 💞

Her description of the difference between the old way of teaching and the modern way is just reminiscent of the TLM versus Norvus Ordo. Tradition does work.

Everything begins with discipline. Without it nothing is achieved

I wonder if they spelt "achieving" wrong in the title to see if anyone would notice?

Well done. A voice of reason, wisdom and common sense amongst the babble. The pendulum is swinging. Yay!

Top lady well done

Put THIS lady up to guide education policy! All the gender benders and race hustlers should be ashamed of their narrative. Take a page from her book.

Well said. A good model for all nations to investigate. U.S. schools used to do this, now many of our teachers are frustrated and the students are paying the price. And because of the way they set up their classrooms, with students facing each other, they wonder why kids don't focus more. Can't blame everything thing on video games. A return to tradition would be a good thing.

Incredible woman,

Amazing!!! Give so much hope ❤

I want a back to old school movement in this land.

And then, after all her hard work, they go to universities that will destroy truth and thinking.

A very wise woman.

An excellent school. Great job.

This lady gets it!

This woman should open up a teacher's college to train teachers across other nations (US, Canada, Australia) in her method as we are falling so far behind academically, and wasting so much school time on nonsense.

Lucky kids. They are going to be prepared.

I'm studying English Education in Korea at the moment and I find this very interesting. Ideas about how schools should be run and what kind of expectations/hope we should have are very important. There are many things I agree with in what she's saying, but I don't think classes have to always be just rows where everyone is facing the teacher. I think if a teacher does things really well they can help facilitate group and peer learning and there are many benefits to that as well. Of course you have to watch out for bullies and help the shier kids. Most teacher's are in a system as well and can't do exactly as they want, for various reasons. I also think that "better teaching" could come if being a teacher was a very respected job that paid pretty well. (I have lots of thoughts on this, but it's just a KZfaq comment so I'll refrain haha)

Katharine is intelligent and articulate A very beautiful lady

Well done that Lady.

Why haven't we got a politician like this woman...

Well done and sticking to what is rightfully proper ways do things that will result better for the kids develop well individually. Not end up blaming everyone else of the problems of their own making! Curbing the ego in kids will serve them well for a lifetime! Strictness used logically for a logical reason? Is a formula that puts student optimally ready to face the harsh world and resilient to whatever the world throws at them and humbly try to learn the lessons that goes with it! Tho, it. doesnt gaurantee success for all students (mostly) but learning how to pick themselves up to any failure? Is the ultimate feat a teacher can achieve without any regrets since that is the real reason and purpose of a true teacher (instructor)! The great teacher is something else..... they are more like Yoritomo Tashi's work on how to develop Common Sense and the daily practice in applying it thru the rest of your natural life. I. Kant work on the critique of reason and judgement was as great! These things will take a lifetime to study or grasp its monumental worth! It can not be rushed... it should be digested gradually and any effort forcing yourself to it? ...is futile and waste of time since it self defeating why? That is a question that one should answer it for themselves ; ) Just a nudge in pushing the envelop forward....for a cause that deliver practical and applicable results for knowing how to do the right things the right way in the midst of rabid barbarism of the leftist mentality.... thats cherry on top! ; )

There's a more subversive reason for group learning. It's deemed a transforming practice by its supporters. The teachers form the groups by placing the under performers with the better students and their work as marked as a team. The forces the stronger students to carry the weaker or else be penalised (it normalises this obligation), it teaches the under performers that a crutch will be provided for them, and in the long run establishes the idea a collective approach is the appropriate one. Further, since students are more influenced by peer pressure, teachers construct groups and manoeuver/maipulate them to behave in ways that buttress collectivist goals. For example, if the school defines a goal of equity, the energies and resources will be devoted to that end including shaping team behavior to achieve the objective. This agenda is not isolated at local, regional, or even national level. Take a look at all the international organisations advocacy of it. Not only the UN, which one might expect, but also the OECD, World Bank, and other supposedly capitalist organisations have been subverted by progressive academics to push forward a far leftist (progressive) agenda bent on toppling the strengths of the West in favour of the "global south" agenda, the eradication of the individual and his/her rights, of ending competition, risk taking, and other "deviant" behaviours that run afoul of collectivist goals.

My kids are shocked when I tell them we used to get caned at school, it teaches discipline and respect, something that is lacking in today's youth.

God I love BOTH of these women! I always love it when people you admire meet.

The modern education system of the UK is to keep unemployment figures low. True learning is the interplay of practical and theory - not just theory on top of theory. What matters now is people specialize early, take on in demand skills and keep improving those skills to push innovation if possible or at least to keep up with it. The old system of education, even with harsh discipline is slower than the pace of innovation.

She will change these kids lives in the most positive remarkable way.

I love Sky News Australia. I wish we had something similar in the UK.

Awesome awesome awesome awesome video.

This is what all schools where like on the UK in the 90s, I know I went to 4 UK Schools in Scotland and England.

I go to Michaela community school

I love this woman! Please come out to OZ and run our schools !!!

I LOVE THIS WOMAN.

hi posting from the U.S. How can these children feel safe when you just got finished saying that every day they are harassed by mean kids from other schools who are threatening them with knives

8.48 so true

There’s no school like old school

She is spot-on with regards to her zero-tolerance no-excuses discipline policy. However, I dislike the Brave New World rigidity of her philosophy. Using the worst examples of the inner-city schools we have both worked in, she is an arch polarizer. (Couldn't help but think of 'Animal Farm' and it's 'Four legs good, two legs bad' mantra - progressives bad, traditionalists good). Too many schools in the UK ARE as bad as she says they are, and they won't change until they, like Katharine, get serious about effective discipline and quality teaching. The best private and state schools enable teachers to teach bell-to-bell lessons, and their students achieve outstanding exam results and well-balanced youngsters. Michaela regards any teacher who doesn't conform 100% to the "Michaela Way" as unsuitable and probably not good enough for them. I have enjoyed an ultra-successful career, and I haven't given a detention for the last 17 years. I correct students every day and inspire them - I certainly don't crush them. The Michaela way is a tad Janus-faced insofar as its teachers tell you that they love the kids, but it is certainly not unconditional love. If the children disobey the rules even slightly, they are punished for it EVERY time in the name of consistency. Love includes understanding, compassion, and forgiveness. The Michaela Way would work superbly in China, though not so well in Tunbridge Wells or Merseyside. Michaela has had its kids since Year 7, and that's why it works so well. The students have been drilled in the Michaela Way from Day One. Katharine carefully recruits teachers who wouldn't even dream of rocking the boat. Teachers also need the freedom to teach a curriculum in ways that deliver results and creates a 'healthy' learning environment. Katharine has achieved remarkable results - she deserves credit and a CBE for that - and I admire her passion and work ethic, but ultimately she has swung too far to the right. As a teacher, my greatest guides are Jesus Christ, Confucius, and Aristotle. Between the progressive Left and the Bootcamp Right, I have discovered - thanks to Aristotle - educational virtue. If you want to know more about my views on quality secondary education, feel free to respond.

back to common sense

I don't even have kids, but if in a near future I do. I'll make everything possible to send them there, despite me living outside of the UK (Spain).

This lady is fucking great.

She will have a movie made about her one day!

I wish more schools would return to tradition! This is great.

We see it yet once again. There is no such thing as a bad student, only a bad teacher.

Funny all these Indian black women just identify with "Black", ...and not Indian.

An aboriginal person who was educated at a Christian mission school stands out as literate, hard-working and moral. Funny that.

Baillou high school UK edition

As someone who studied in the same kind of environment my entire educational life , the downside is that this kind of teaching KILLS creativity ! You turn up to become like a robot who sees world in black and white or wrong and right . There is no room in between.

The kids are brainwashed it is sad

Well done Michaela.

The only reason why this school has good grades is cause if ur not good enough for their standards then ur kicked out

In a world built on lies, what are they being taught?

She is tyrannical.

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It’s a way of transferring responsibility, as a facilitator of education, your not responsible for the results. Poor performance is the child’s fault. Hence, there is no accounting for the results!

Next ask...By WHOSE METRICS? Question everything!!!

🤣 I want to hate her ,yet hate to say that I am kind of liking her

Is that spelling of achievement correct?

Guess we'll see how a return to a schooling style designed to facilitate creating workers for an industrial society works out as they enter an economy rapidly shifting towards one based heavily in knowledge, information and creativity.

Migrant backgrounds.. well yeah there’s an emphasis on education in those households.. and the British education system🙄. They’re lucky to go to school 4 days a week the funding is so skint. So no wonder the averages are so low (40% less school hours) That’s Conservatism for you 🤦🏻‍♂️

I am unsuscribing from your news who are promoting dictartorship education I can see where you are going with your philosophy- the problems is not the children- the problems is the way we live and society as a whole