Anyone else here after watching the interview with Jordan Peterson? Great job 👏

Brilliant Katherine. Love your book. All children want fair treatment. Skin colour does not matter unless you teach them that it does.

This was the speech that got her fired? Look where she is now! Brilliant speech

This is the speech she was sacked for, which was a disgusting move.

This should be on the national curriculum, not for students education, but for teacher education. The closed system which hates competition and fears being shown it is not working, is called education and is forced on every child and taught by closed, fearful and indoctrinated minds, from the top down to the bottom. The kids are told what grades suit the school and not what the child needs. They are demorlised and held back from achieving because of the schools fear of failure. The exams limit the students, and the school lies to convince everyone it is for the best, it's not! Education is not geared for the students it is geared for the school or college and its leaders..At parents evenings they tell you have everything is perfect and then your child fails their GCSE. They openly lie to guard their backs, but anybody, any parent who really delves into this will see the truth/ Please delve, ask the questions that are difficult to answer, ask the status of your child within the class. Next time the Head says "Children a C grade is Ok" Realise they don't care about the kids, only the league tables and they won't take any risks of upgrading expectations because it is not in the schools interest.

What is she is saying is absolutely true. I was a teaching assistant last year and I often felt that my hands were tied and I was treading of egg shells. It really annoys me when people here in the UK blame immigrants for the demise of the country when the education system here is so far behind other countries like Finland or Canada.

I just watched her interview with Dr Jordan B. Peterson and it brought me here. I wanted to see why she got fired.

Good speech, but why have the Tories done so little of any good to the education system since coming back into power. We're still waiting for the changes.

I was there that day. One of the finest speeches I have ever heard. Her school is brilliant.

4:15 I found myself physically applauding this.

@DJCW I agree 100%. 'Even' is such a powerful word in this instance. A very strong suggestion that to be black is some form of detriment.

I'm from America and I thought countries like the U.K had good education. Turns out their system is just as bad as ours.

This woman is a goddess of educational know how.

What happened to the old upload?

Well said that woman

She should not have shown photos of her pupils, I am afraid. Bad move. Everthing she said is perfectly true, however.

Great that this was all said back in 2011. How are progressives doing now with education? Oh.

Go watch her interview with Dr Jordan Peterson.

How did this speech lead to her losing her job?

Well of course students now will find a past paper over a decade old more difficult. The specification was different in those times. If my friends and I had a short crash course on the sub-topics taught 50 years ago, I reckon all of us would pass that test with ease. But not now, obviously. If we did it now, we'd only do the questions we've been taught how to do and leave out the other ones (but still attempt them). This isn't because we've been taught a 'dumbed down' spec, but simply a different one. You can't just describe an entire spec as 'dumbed down'. That's not fair. If you really want to compare the specs of two different time periods, do it properly.

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Katharine makes some useful points about the need for excellence and responsibility, but beyond this engages in a considerable amount of stereotyping according to my experience of the public system, but then I work in Australia.

I went to this school! I was in year 8 and had to move schools because of her. And yes it was a very sht school looking back. Sexual assault, fights , the whole lot.

i go to this school its ok

This woman is brilliant...I wonder if she's single?

Instilling competition isn’t the only way of achieving motivation. Success alone will do it by that I mean being able to see real progress. Teamwork is also a useful way to stimulate motivation and it reflects much of the reality in the business, academic and public worlds these days. Developing digital as well as conventional literacies is yet another way of fostering competence, excellence and motivation .

that Lady is a real mean dragon am lucky I'm only in year 6 and that I'm going to Canons !😅

can anyone help me to understand what she means at 4.12 when she says, 'black children underachieve because of what the well-meaning liberal does to him'? I dont understand- genuine curiosity- not offence is meant to be made.

I resently left michaela community school because of their 'strict' rules. I got a detention for my homework for not including the spelling or vocab which was not needed. So I spoke to the head of English and told him and he said it was all my fault and that my fellow pupils are doing the right thing by taking their detention and learning from it. What exactly are you learning from something that wasn't told to you in the first place. In the end, he brought me to a private room and shouted at the top of his voice and threatened to tell my future universities that I apply for to tell them not to accept me and that I have no self control. Who has more self control? The teacher that gets frustrated and bring you to a private room to shout at the top of his voice and threaten you or the pupil who is standing up to a unfair punishment?

Competition does not create confidence but adds pressure. Yes we should have high expectations but pitching those who are poorest in a war with those who are exceptional creates disappointment and a fractured system that leads to no child taking a subjects and going in to the workforce. Additionally all subjects syllabus have changed since 1998 so I hope she isn't giving out papers that are not valuable to anyone. And to all who believe that exams are getting harder: for 1 mark name 4 differenc

"and the ordinary child like Jordan or Natasha is lost in a sea..." me and my friend are not lost we are fine and we like are school, what ever you wanna talk about don't bring me or my friend into it!!!!

Agreed, this speech was based on anecdotal evidence leading to it being misrepresentative and naive.

The way she claims that our education system has been "dumbed" down over the years is extremely derogatory and demoralizing to students like myself who work hard on a daily basis to achieve success. She preaches of lack of motivation and flawed system. Granted our education isn't right, however you also have to look at our current climate and realize that schools aren't necessarily working due to there being nothing to strive toward-no drive for our student as the future isn't as certain...

This is typical ivory tower guff.....she even admits to being a tory.....this entire speech is either opinion or rhetoric....i understand she was fired as a teacher......she might think of working in AI.....she seems to like robots.