Maybe because none of them are aren’t allowed to speak. Or maybe because they’re so traumatised and scared of breathing that a word to the camera equals execution. I’d love to see one of them advertise this school, yeah if you want a taste of what prison is like, then come spend your entire teenage years trapped in this hell hole.

@@JaidenColburn yea this school seems terrible like literally obviously the teachers are gonna say good things about it. Like its just so strict that like these kids will barely be able to make friends seeming u can like never talk to anyone

@@danielgrose2525 Exactly. School is meant to prepare students for the real world when they become adults, but when they’re treated like prisoners, it teaches them that they don’t have a voice and that people above them don’t value them. It’s only going to harm their mental health and affect their lack of independence. They could at least allow them to make their own decisions. Like if everything is laid out like that and they have to obey by those rules, what does it teach them about how the world works? Nothing.

@@danielgrose2525 naah your wrong.i go to Michaela and it's not what you think it is. It is basically like any normal secondary school but it's only strict when you do something wrong once or repeatedly

@@UnderratedAlpha me too, which form r u from,?

By design, I feel, and I'm not the only one. "School has done a pretty good job of turning our children into addicts, but a spectacular job of turning our children into children. Again, this is no accident. Theorists from Plato to Rousseau to our own Dr. Inglis knew that if children could be cloistered with other children, stripped of responsibility and independence, encouraged to develop only the trivializing emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, and fear, they would grow older, but never truly grow up." Excerpt from: Weapons of Mass Instruction, by 36-year educator, John Gatto

Its not "child abuse" its called strict.

Exactly!!!

Have you sent your child there then you can talk?

So, do you wanted to never have our talk with your friends at school cuz you were going to be punished??. 🤔

No because they want to be jobless.

But look at the outcomes they are more successful and competent than kids from public school so…..

I know right

Mate im happy i go crest up't road its a shithole but its better

Exactly someone in the comments said they would love 2 go there minging that right

There isn't tho, I used to go there

@@davinapatel8088 no wonder y ur dumb

Japanese kids when they move into the workforce tend to be crap though because they've never actually learned to be independent during their schooling and come up with original thoughts. They've just learned stuff by rote like at this school and been brought up in an oppressive schooling environment that doesn't encourage kids to be truly intellectually curious or develop proper social skills.

Your inability to conquer rudimentary grammar tells us that you didn't attend this school. Enjoy driving the van.

The thing is they didn’t let us be interviewed because they knew what we would say well the brave people at least I most certainly have no fear of talking back to these teachers and honestly I have if they interviewed a student and didn’t get an answer they wanted they would exclude them probably and delete the footage

Glad to hear a first hand experience! I think it’s for a special kind of student and not everyone will fit but if you have what it takes could make you excel much quicker and more extensively than going to a normal school. Pros and cons like anything but I would think most kids that end up successful appreciate the rigorous school and sacrifices for that success. As a child you would never be able to make those choices on your own for the chance of having that kind of future as your just not developed enough to do that. Hell 99.9% of adults aren’t even developed to be able to sacrifice for such a large amount of time in order to have a greater result farther down the line. Humans are programmed to go after the easy low hanging fruit that was necessary to survive in the past. Without this survival threat being so pronounced as it has been for most of human history, modern societies have negated this in humans and so the ones that might have been the best, most likely to survive in past evolutionary terms are at a disadvantage than other less likely to survive in past but have adaptations that make them better equipped to be successful in todays created world. Basically the people who can force themselves and brains to not take the low hangin fruit but rather sacrifice time and joy now in order to reap a better reward and bigger fruit in the future. And really it’s the ones who find joy and happiness in the process of sacrificing for a future reward that will be the most successful in the future rather than being miserable while working toward a reward and then being extremely joyful when they get the reward as this will cause a crash in motivation for whatever you need to accomplish next making it more difficult than previous.

@@lsuronak1992 That is an interesting analysis. Some children will perhaps benefit from this kind of system. I do think everyone needs to learn some form of self discipline to survive, but to what extreme is certainly up for debate. Your post reminded me of the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper. That is a good anology for planning ahead and reaping what you sow. I guess it depends on what you want out of life. For some children this school enviorment would be counter productive and even toxic to the most sensitive of children. For many it will destroy their passion for learning. Other children may not excel in all areas of academia but may thrive in more practical pursuits. One size certainly doesn't fit all. I do respect the school for standing for what they believe in. That is not easy. Even if I do not believe in their policies, I respect them for that.

Sounds like it got you into university too. Sounds like your taking everything it gave you for granted

@@dembert4666 Yes, you could argue that it got me into university, but plenty of my fellow students and colleagues got into university from less draconian backgrounds. I always say that there is unpleasant leniency towards adultism in the west. Children are often regarded as inferior to adults. Their problems are frequently dismissed and they are not respected or acknowledged. Yes, everyone has to learn discipline and respect for a collective society to function, but it is hypocritical to demand respect when you are not willing to respect the child and their needs. Some children may benefit from the environment at Michaela, but for some, it could cause great emotional damage. Thank you for your comment. I respect all views from the political spectrum. Even if I do not agree with them.

@Doctor_Who Maybe so. Different cultures have different social etiquettes. One good thing that I did experience in my schooling was that a vast majority of the students wanted to learn. In some schools, children can be afraid to study or answer questions for fear of it inciting bullying. Most of our teachers were authoritarian and dismissive of our emotional well-being. You wouldn’t dream of trying to debate your point with some of them. The motto was simply, children should do as their told, without taking into account the individual circumstances of the child. The very few children who were majorly disruptive were simply expelled. A lot of studies show that a child being expelled can do more harm than good. School is children’s first introduction to society. If the school is not willing to work through their disruptive behavior or to help communicate and inspire children with complex social and emotional needs, the message the child receives is that they are useless. Their self-esteem diminishes, they become angry and resentful and this causes a host of problems into adulthood. For many children, the teacher is the only nurturing and positive role model in their lives. Obviously, some children have to be expelled, but it should always be the very last resort. Thank you for your comment. It is interesting how there are so many arguments for and against this kind of school.

They probably get their internet history checked and then they go back to detention 😅

Either a troll or someone that loves the strictest school...

More like child abuse

5 HOUR DETENTIONS? That’s torture.

As someone who went to a pretty cruddy school in Norfolk and then taught in a pretty cruddy school in West Croydon, I can safely say that Michaela is heaven and a bastion of learning.

says someone who is strict

No, I go to this school and the detentions are only that long when we haven't attempted to do any holiday homework that is compulsory. You'd get a 30 minute detention for forgetting a pencil tho

@@ummchileanywaysso7609 I mean, detention for forgetting a pencil when you can borrow one is still quite extreme.

its 45 mins 5 hours is for isolation

@@2yeon 5 hours isolation mine is 1 30

@@threelions2109 Then borrow one before you get to class. It is teaching resourcefulness, thinking ahead, checking to see if you have what you need aka all the skills you need in real life. Teachers who actually want to teach rather than discipline and students who want to learn rather than slag off love schools with clear rules and regulations.

from their website “Our Results are extraordinary. Michaela’s last Progress 8 score placed us as the best school in the country.”

Why? Because you would have to work hard and be held accountable for your actions?

Well it's certainly going to deter kids from fighting in the hall.

9 hours and 10 minutes Referral session

Not only is that wasted life, but it's wasted EDUCATION....

The children did not look miserable. Children actually like rules and they like adults who can keep things under control.

Is society going to give all these allowances for adhd? Not really no. So....

@@TheBigThinker944 considering this is a school and schools are meant to accomodate special needs, yeah

@@TheBigThinker944 Society is becoming more aware of neurodivergence.

Predictability helps some children with SEN. Also low expectations is a form of child abuse. Many children with ADHD would struggle but people can surprise you.

@@TheBigThinker944 I mean in the UK they don’t really have a choice but to abide by the 2010 equalities act and if anything isn’t provided that is reasonable anyone who is disabled including neurodivergent, comes from diverse backgrounds or has reasons why they wouldn’t be given equal opportunities ends up being discriminated against would have very strong grounds to suit an employer or individual not providing accommodations so the answer in the UK is yes or try not to me you’ll see how much money you lose. Providing accommodations isn’t an option or luxury it’s a human right. Just like if you didn’t allow somebody to go to the bathroom. Which is why the physically disabled have to have access in a public property to a disabled bathroom. Or why those with low support developmental conditions like Autism, ADHD or other mental health conditions who can work with reasonable adjustments have to have access to accommodations. Because being able to work is a human right and if you can’t work having pathways that allow for yourself to not be living on those poverty line is necessary. Like benefits to help families pay for carers or extra higher support need accommodations like assisted living. So yes the UK public does need to provide these accommodations based on the UK 2010 UK equalities act stating that all British citizens, residents or those settling in the UK under a Visa by law have to have access to work. The government has litterally set up a scheme for the disabled to get extra funding called the access to work fund this ensures that employers have no choice but to fund accommodations. Because the government can pay them to do so if they don’t. This is non refundable. So if I need a special type of font to read my employer has to provide me this accommodation. If I need extra time to produce a document my employer has to provide me with this. Is that thorough enough for you? Just to be clear this is only talking about the UK not sure what their countries rules are if you are international. But I’m British so this is relevant to me

Not really. Successful means they’ll have the cultural capital and cultural literacy to engage with the world and be active citizens, unlike most schools which seem content for their students to not lick windows during English.

What's wrong with that

Better than being living in chronic poverty.😂😂

@@andrews6952I see it as similar to ABA therapy treatments for autism. Yes, we successfully discouraged behaviors that were considered “bad”, but at the expense of the students well-being. Programs like this tend to emphasize tangible and economically relevant results rather than asking its potential victims how they feel. Simply using behaviorism to enforce externally pleasing results at the expense of internal well-being is wrong.

It sounds odd but as someone with ADHD and possibly autism I would have thrived in this school. In my school they did nothing to help me develop the soft skills essential for surviving as an adult. I then got forced into DBT to learn those skills which did more harm than good. Oh and I was bullied relentlessly at school for not having those skills which ruined my self esteem, self confidence, and left me with C-PTSD which was then added to but the abuse of services missing my neurodivergence and focusing on the bullying being the cause of my problems and then deciding I didn’t have true trauma and instead had a personality problem. I feel it is important to state that I do not support ABA but do believe some skills need to be developed to help people be the best they can be

You know what this school’s ND/LD services and protocol are?

Only if you do not follow the rules :)

What’s the difference lol we usued to have in school suspension which is basiclly 8 hours of detention all day long. Unless It’s all after school then that’s a bit crazy

​@@lsuronak1992 exactly. This 5 hour detention happens after the classes at this strict school

Education Dictatorship at it's finest.

5 hours silly. Someone is too anal. We got in trouble for not having a pen too and had to walk single file, typical Catholic school of the 70’s. We had to write an essay on forgetfulness or maybe a small fine. Didn’t happen to often. A lot of kids borrow off each other that extra pen. I will say we used pencils back then for a long time. I had to send my kids school 48 pencils when he was younger. Does he use a pencil for only a couple days? They are tables and we were at desks. Easier to keep your pencil in your box I guess. Glad for a video like to really see the school doesn’t have proper halls or a proper gym. This is the same school with the court case and the prayer ban. This is not a typical school you enroll the kid in cause it’s in your school boundary. It’s a special status free school like a US charter school. In high school in the 80’s there were lunch detentions or Saturday detentions. They were all day on Saturday. Those were repeat offenders or ditching a class. Not forgetting a pen. Or running out of ink.

Let me guess you haven’t done well in life… and either work as a mechanic or as dustbin man or maybe in the DOL!

1 sec late 4 class is 5 hour detension there how is that an improvement

@@NC.0 Belching ineffable twaddle does not a counterargument make.

@@onepalproductions there is more

@@NC.0 Go put your facemask on.

@@onepalproductions its passed covid

No, I go to that school and you don’t get 5 hour detentions, detentions only last 30 mins. The only time when the detentions are long is if you get more than one detention. (Maximum amount 4) so, 30 mins = 1 detention 60 mins = 2 detentions. 80 mins = 3 detentions. 1 hour = 4 detentions. Although isolation is 5 hours. :)

@@Iconic_.. uhhh I hope you made a typo? If not this school is not what I thought if you actually attend lol!! 1 detention being 30 min 2 detention being 1 hour How in the hell can 4 detentions be the same as 2? 1 hour = 60 min! And then randomly get to an 80 min session for 3 detentions rather then continuing the 30 min increments and then back to the obvious error with the time differences for 3 detentions and 4 detentions?

@@lsuronak1992 hiya! So, I don’t get and accurate timing although this is a rough description of the detentions, and yes, it’s true! Every detention is 30 mins! But we don’t get no more than about an hour. The only time we get 5 hours is isolation! :) (and yes I do attend that school)

@@Iconic_.. how old are you? Is English not your first language? Your scale is still way off how is 3 detentions 80min? Did you mean to say it’s 90 min? And then 4 detentions as 2 hours instead of 1 hour you typed?

@@Iconic_.. your grammar is terrible, that’s why I ask your age and if English is your first language. I would think anyone attending this school in England would be very good at grammar imo but idk!

detentions are 30 minutes ur exaggerating

Its straight up rules that 5 year olds follow.

Just wanna discipline but overall okay school this won’t be the school I will go to anyways but it’s okay

This is discipline, but of course, many of the kids nowadays wouldn’t know what that is and take it as “abuse” just cuz they’re not allowed to disrespect the school and do whatever they want but learn.

@@fde7 This school is hell.

@@fde7 Liar 5 years olds dont know matters Only 8 years olds

Exactly!

“Porn deprived” background - wtf is that supposed to mean?

I've seen comments from students with very different perspectives.

@@Xoololo a really unfortunate typo 😂

Yea that’s what I heard on insta, my school has half hour detentions and you very rarely get them

It is,I guess?

Nah, I go to that school and detentions last 30 mins :)

That's exactly Michaela. There's lots of clubs in breaktime, and the teachers never make you sleep (in a good way), it's amazing.

Being a human is not dependant on neon wrist bands and bad haircus. Plus, its 2022 how many kids do you see these days with terrible haircuts and neon wristbands? That's a very 2001 thing. Having a dress code at school is mandatory in all schools for a reason in England. Not just this one. And they should adhere to that. It doesn't hurt a child to follow some rules for 6 hours a day. After school they can wear whatever they want. Also no high school has random pieces of art strewn around the school, thats reserved for the art department. They aren't in year 4. These standards are basic rules that a 5 year old is expected to follow whilst at school

@@fde7 This school is hell.

Then be on time. Be late to business meetings worth money. Won't be five hour detentions you get

​@@TheBigThinker9445 hours detentions is not synonymous with being 2 mins late. And it's not always their fault that they're late.

It's not like a prison - You have to commit a crime to go to prison. When they punish you with it, it's not for offences like speaking, it's for stuff like murder and you get trails and re-trails and a trained person appointed to you to help prove you're innocent (even when you're guilty) and a fortune spent on you to make sure it's fair before you're forced there. The rules when you're in prison aren't even *remotely* close to being so strict and stressful. You're legally protected from double jeopardy because even for crimes like murder that's considered immoral in school you can get it for any reason at all often innocuous (or triple, quadruple jeopardy or more). This is considered so immoral to do to criminals to the point of criminality, it's illegal unless you did it to a child. Even if guilty of the crime you can get out early for good behaviour in prison, in school zero crime committed and no matter how obedient/"good" you are you don't get out. In prison they're protected from "collective punishments" because according to both the UN and the Geneva convention that is inhumane and immoral because it's punishes known innocent's, the only institution in society we aren't protected from it, is school. In prison you aren't micro-managed so strictly even your language and bodily functions like bathroom use dictated, monitored and decided by others and you won't be punished/aka hurt for a massive assortment of things you would be here. You don't spend the whole time in prison doing stressful work (stress kills brain cells) but can relax in your jail reading books of your own choice you enjoy instead or even watch tv or play video games. In prison the criminal can bring it up with the justice system if they feel a punishment was unjust and get those who did it punished, in school you almost never have this option and will almost certainly be ignored, if they do get punished for something it'll be paid vacation from work or something much lighter than the one who wronged the inmates. In school you'll be hurt worse for "talking back" as you don't have equal rights to accused criminals right to a defence or speaking up for yourself, in fact you may not even be present at the meeting's deciding your fate. In many, many schools there is a "zero tolerance policy" which makes it official school policy that if someone is being bullied and attacked, the victim must be punished just as badly as the perpetrator is, this is true regardless of if the one being attacked fought back or even if they just sat there and allowed themselves to be beaten by the bully, either way they're to be punished, again it's not that teachers are just allowed to do this, it's that they're given explicit instructions telling them they must do this. In prison it's already developed human brains being subject to it's stresses, in school it's still developing ones. Stress has been scientifically proven repeatedly to kill brain cells, reduce empathy for others, condition something called "learned helplessness", increase your chances of developing every disease and illness, lower happiness, self esteem, increase chances of anti-social, cruel behaviour and increase risk of substance abuses all of these things set off even more issues and suffering, is it any wonder that data published shows suicide among school student's is higher than that among criminals? that every year at the start of September when schools go back there is a massive increase in suicide among youth? and it goes massively down at start of summer, goes up again when returning after each break throughout the year? it rises and falls all throughout the year with the school schedule, among other places, these finding's can be seen on psychology today published by Dr. Peter Gray. I haven't even mentioned the fact it's still legal and widely practised in 69 countries to beat student's with weapons (and 19 US states) whereas it's been banned against criminals hundreds of years because people *back then* considered it too inhumane many even modify the weapons to make sure they hurt the children more and the penalty for being caught doing it to a little 5 year old girl in places where it is NOT legal is to just have the community come out to defend you and insist you keep your job, which is exactly what happened in Florida when a teacher was caught illegally paddling a little girl and screaming in her sobbing face, if to an adult jail time. I have to stop because there is more sufferings and moral transgressions which wouldn't be tolerated if done against criminals which we exclusively reserve only for those we care about protecting most of all and are the most helpless but it's way too long a list and the list of what we'd tolerate if done against adults rather than criminals is even longer. The children every year who continuously get forced into these environments until they mentally break and kill themselves were *murdered* it was not suicide it was child neglect, endangerment and child murder because lot's of them die every year from it, it's mass murder, more kids kill themselves every year from this than sexual abuse. In prison it's illegal to force someone there if they're innocent, in school it's illegal for everyone to not be forced there, freedom from it is what's illegal/banned.

people come late to business meetings and other such professional things ALL THE DAMN TIME@@TheBigThinker944

I'm sorry you have had to go to a school like this. The country has failed its young people's education since 2010 and allowed monstrosities like this "academy" to proliferate.

You would like your school attended a prison which kind of school has a no talking rule

If ur very strict then ye

You go there then

No thank it's not that kind of system that will make me like learning or developpe myself, if that was a school i were to attend then i would just quit to do something better with my life.

Let me correct you a little. “Any parent who sends their kids here, care about their kid’s education and future.”

@@theeg.6762 nah

@@theeg.6762 let me correct you again, any parent who sends their kids here is asking for them to be miserable through childhood

@@fdc2367 I promise you me in public school getting constantly bullied would’ve rather been here working on my future rather then stuck with those people who had no interest in their futures!

@@lsuronak1992 public school is worser i gott bullied and the teachers and the principal was so MEAN!!

Lmao as if kids decide what school they go to 😂

ehh theyre probably indoctrinated so it doesnt matter

If school did not exist will we LEARN?? NO!! SO YOUR GONNA WASTE YOURS

​@@familyjok1 not everyone goes to this school wtf lol

​@@familyjok1 I learn more from KZfaq than school

Not really it works but I think there is probably a better way like less propaganda

It’s not a prison my dear. Trust me. Without Mcs, I wouldn’t be where I am today.😘

Don’t think I’d enjoy it there but it wouldn’t be as bad as a prison.

Traumatised people aren't generally very successful.

Oh please, don't be so ridiculous

Good for you! I'm a Michaela pupil, and the school is really not as bad as you think it is.

Ew

@@Trust_No_001 ew you then

I ain't going there thank gosh

@@vid9511 Yh pls don’t I have to talk back to these teachers who show no respect to us

My son was in a school like this Northern Ireland, U.K. he is profoundly deaf wearing a cochlear implant. He had a teaching assistant present so many hours. He was treated and disciplined like everyone else, had that extra input if needed. He is now studying law. Best school ever I can’t thank the headmistress enough for what she has done including her tough discipline, but with love. My son hated it now today he thanks her voted her along with others best head teacher of Nothern Ireland. That includes many other pupils

Exactly!

How should they be improved?

Are u a teacher?

Social standards in the Netherlands are very different than in the UK. On average kids are very different (in a more positive way) in the Netherlands compared to the UK. You interact with a cat differently than you would a lion.

I was talking about one school in particular

Exactly!

You sound like a Tori

Exactly these are inner city kids that probably have 0 discipline from home and not with bright futures and good mentors. To say this is torture or anything of the sorts is insane lol. Yes kids should have fun but they can do that while being disciplined and outside of the school hours they can be normal or whatever you want to call just playing around. I guarantee when these kids are older and have great jobs and family’s of their own will gladly tell anyone they absolutely love that they went to this school as it’s the only way they are as successful as they are now. There is a reason they have the scores they do and people that go to normal school don’t!!

The darkest pit of hell like God or Allah or whatever other gods are going to do the same thing they have done to this poor kids or teens or young adults from 12th grade but anyway yea

god isnt real though,but yeah something has to be done about this

I was an extremely quiet and non-confrontational kid when I was a child and even into my teenage years but how they dictating the lives of students so much leaves them stressing over everything too much. It’s even worse because if the children show their stress and vulnerability, they get punished for it. This type of strict, helicopter teaching may even leave some kids with relying to much on others setting rules for them since they had so many extra put on them on a young age.

@@B0T_Monka there is no extra or extreme rules here.. many schools have these kinda rules. My school did. Minus the teacher eating with us at lunch. These are the kind of rules 5 year olds follow at school. Its basic human decency and basic socialization skills to maintain eye contact, be on time and bring the required equipment ie being prepared for your day ahead. If you think these very very basic expectations are too strict then wow I worry for you. They don't get punished for showing emotions every child on this video was smiling and laugh and just being a child but a child that clearly is respectful. Where did you get that idea from that they'd be punished for showing emotion? They aren't dictating the lives of students.. there are etiquette rules in the school which students must adhere to but that isn't a bad thing, as I said before its the exact same etiquette rules that many primary schools heavily implement. Many work places also have these kind of rules implemented. No phones, being on time or you have that time removed from your lunch and get a "strike" against your name late too many times you're fired. Its skills that children need to be proper functional citizens of society .....the alternative is the bratz we see on tiktok swearing at everyone thinking they are victims and demanding the world be given to them.

yeah being in a prison like trance is being a decent human being 100%

@@fde7 This school is hell.

@@revon7202 school sucked either way for me I didn’t want to be there regardless. If I would’ve gotten a great education and the skills of these kids while I hated it I would still be better off than going to public school prison, as you call it, where I was bullied and also hated everything about.

i dont think japanese schools are strict

@@yuanlatina8258 you've never been to Japan, huh

Understandable. This school should be shut down.

@bluexboxgamer2613 I agree with you

To a laissez aller school?

​@@africansisterExactly! I wish my son studied in this school...