She is inculcating good academic discipline without religion. Way to go.

So who would have thought the pink haired lady was going to be against the conservative school achieving fantastic results! Even tho Birbalsingh's school is in one of those areas that Pinky was talking about

Kids need discipline and firm chastisement ,,,,look whats happened to the UK and discipline over the 25 years. Kids know their rights and do as they please and just say, I have got mental health issues. They’ve got you under their little fingers. I have only seen naughty children get rewarded. We got smacked and the rest and never did us any harm. I am sure most people get it here.

She is amazing

once heard her say someone said 2+ 2 is racist..... that really is BS and she does a service to the good work she is doing delving into this kind of politics.....

She’s brilliant!

It is some of these same parents that are ruining the schools ..too many excuses

Excellent decision by the court👏🏽 and Ms.Katherine is a brave women for not submitting to the Islamists demands. I am an exMuslim and while I was studying at school I was constantly threatened, bullied and intimidated by the practising Muslims for my views and criticism towards Islam. This ideology doesn't have a place in a secular pluralistic society.

I'm thinking that it's good but maybe that it's also healthy for kids to go through a rebellious phase as they would get to test their boundaries and others. I'm not a parent or teacher though. There is a definite balance though as I went to a High School where fights and experimenting with sex was normal. That School went too far towards allowing kids to rebel I think.

You do realise that your strictness causes anxiety and depression thus leading to higher suicidal rates

What a wonderful school. We are failing our kids nowadays, we desperately need more schools like this

No

Does Michaela School have homeless people loitering, are there any local gangs feuding, is the medium household income below the poverty line, do the parents have a career and college education, are the teachers credentialed or long term substitutes, is there enough school funding, do the students go through lgbt agenda's in school? BIG DIFFERENCE HERE, DONT COMPARE APPLES WITH CHEESE

Where are the white kids?

N Korea not as strict

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Liarpoliticians, thank you for speaking the truth about Katharine. This woman should never be allowed near a classroom.

The soft bigotry is entirely palpable with a couple of the panelists. Who are of course, white. Katharine herself being the only person of color in the room. What pours from their mouths, like thick, oozing treacly stifling and stultifying lowest of expectations reinforces their firmly held belief that inner city kids of color (apparently wallowing in whatever assorted repressions; fatherlessness, poverty, culture, and so on) only exist for one real purpose: to further a very particular political persuasion that works fine only so long as they fail. Which would prove that a system isn't working, and a systemic oppression pervades. Should these chosen darlings actually succeed? The whole thing goes to hell in a handbasket. Katharine herself knows and understands all this implicitly. Which is why she has been fighting like hell for some 15 years now to educate the educators, parents and the general public - and prove that any child, when placed within a proper educational setting, can succeed. She cares enough about her kids to want them to make it to the finish line having preserved real dignity and self-respect, along with a deep sense of belonging in the society they grew up in. Imagine how invaluable that is. The panelists "pretend" to be concerned and all lovey dovey toward victims of what they perceive as either out and out oppression, or at best, something highly unlikely to work for perhaps the kids who need it the most. They react merely to the surface of a thing that goes infinitely deeper than they appear to be capable of imagining. Ironically, the designer of such "discipline" is the one who knows and loves and cares enough about these children to design and tweak an approach that is obviously not only getting the kind of results (that much of the current academic system fails to do) but along with those results, gives her kids a foundation in something far more valuable in life than merely academic credits. The entire rounded out package. Which is what I got with no fuss, muss, bother, debate or argument - almost 60 years ago. A time when the poorest schmuck from the wrong side of the track could be found capable of possibly out-reading me, and I was a hell of a reader.

Umbridge approves