Well, done for fighting for your right protecting your children. Something really strange going on trying to make next generation over sexualised and low educated. Scary stuff.
it's all about the kiddie fiddlers, when have we ever taught young children to think of themselves sexually, it's just wrong on so many levels, it makes me sick this country is going down the drain unless we the people put the plug in and soon
Id have loved to be in a school that had clear rules. They never explained any rules to us but would bully us when we broke them. So you could never be good and you could never argue your case. My first day an older girl swuirted ink in my eye which i spent 20 minutes in the ba th room washing my eye out which was reasonable im not into going blind. I was from a different town and knew nobody but i was given suspesion for being late for class and not saying who did it to me. I didnt know anyone. It was all so unreasonable. I feel like if i was late to class bevause i was washing ink out of my eye this woman wouldnt have punished me but would have said i did the right thing for the health of my eye. Common sense
I would bet my life savings that none of the politicians children ever see any of this dangerous wokealphabet poison in the exclusive schools that they attend.
Weak parents destroy their kids opportunities later in life, this Headmistress is the woman who should be in charge of education full stop, instead of the woke teachers who teach nothing today, a no nonsense teacher standing for nothing other than work hard and learn.
They remove discipline then blame parents 😮 you can't even raise your voice at a child without being stared at , it's madness , I think the government think they are their children ! My mum just had to give me the stare 👀 and I knew to behave 😂😂😂
@@Wasssssup-3 I know exactly what you mean, the stare was all it took with me and my sisters too, my mum never even had to raise her voice to us and if she found out we had been misbehaving annoying other adults, like at school, there would be hell to pay.
@@Wasssssup-3they are the governments children lol…. Registering them is the same as getting a v5 for your vehicle… your just the child’s registered keeper
I was an abused child, school was my safe haven, where doing homework and getting the only praises any adult ever gave me was wonderful. I was heartbroken when I had to leave. Some kids need that stability. ❤
@@YvonneCairns-c9u I am so sorry to hear about your school. Sometimes people won't listen to the truth as other people have told them that you lie, so they can control you more. Be strong you and others like you are stronger than you think.
I thought this just the other day. It is white, working class in particular. Starmer just doesn't seem to like them. The white, working class are now the most vulnerable in our society. They are getting left behind. It is deeply concerning.
It's not surprising. The working class was supposed to bring about the socialist revolution, Kier and his socialist friends were going to rule us until the end of time, and we were going to work in the mines. If we disagreed, then it would be the bullet or the gulag. When the working class didn't bring about the revolution, the left grew to hate them, that's why they now despise them and moved on to racial division and bringing in third-worlders who we bring about the socialist state.
It’s always been the working classes that are detested by the establishment because they have nothing to lose and are willing to take action. It’s fear you can smell. Middle classes are still paying off uni debt plus a mortgage and will be ruined if they take a stand and lose their jobs. They are the unreasonable people that tell you ‘I know I’m sorry I’m just doing my job’.
Basic sex education is all that is required at schools. This manipulation of young innocent children towards inappropriate adult sexual discourse and material is disgraceful.
@Pange3 We weren't taught about sex education until we were in the last year of high school. I don't agree with young children being taught about it in primary school.
Basic Biology is all you need in school. It should be the parents job to teach about intimate things as awkward as it may be. The state has way too much control over the minds of young people. They spend a full working day at school 5 days a week. It's far too much and counter-productive because by the end of the day you are completely zoned out. Half of that time they spend in school should be at home doing their homework.
Find God. He is our shield from these demons. I have threatened multiple teachers with law suits on the the breech of religious freedoms regarding this so called “sex education” more like “prostitution indoctrination”. They quickly back down and stop teaching it when they know they will loose in court. The law of man is powerful, but it is nothing to the law of God the father almighty. Protect and fight for the innocence of your children because the demons are on the march.
Spot on about school inspections. I have felt this was for a long time. If schools are so good, what are they afraid of! Parents should be able to inspect schools in an organised way. This would keep teachers and schools on their toes!
The real brave teachers are those who work in state schools every day. Not this self publicist. Not surprising that Suella Braverman is on the board of governors at the "Outstanding" Michaela community school, working outside of the state school system. All this exposure on TV is going to her head. "Facts over Feelings" is a right wing anti-woke meme normally uttered by gender critical types. Feelings don't count in the robot world of digits, "facts" and "logic..."
I remember when a German family escaped Germany about 10-15 years ago because Germany outlawed homeschooling. In the US, we have wide open borders form criminals to cross through but the government is still fighting to deport this family. I expect the rest of us will eventually be outlaws for homeschooling.
Where was this woman when I was a Child? I was a child of physical neglect with multiple visits from social services. Nobody expected anything of me. I needed a teacher like this. It's very strict but it's the most honest way of saying "I believe in your abilities".
I was a professional teacher for many years, and I can assure you, if you visit school classrooms, you will sooner or later see many fantastic teachers in action. But you will only find these very talented people in mainstream classrooms. You will not find them in any 'out of classroom' roles. This is because poor teachers are often desperate to get out of the classroom, but wish to remain on the education gravy-trail. 'Route One' out of the classroom is via 'promotion'. In every local education authority, you will therefore see many failed teachers employed as Headteachers, LEA inspectors and LEA advisory teachers. Of course, the OFSTED service itself is the preferred career choice for many of these failed teachers.
I have seen this in action so many times over my 25 years in teaching. One was made to feel guilty if one simply wanted to stay in the classroom. So many hopeless teachers were promoted to non- teaching roles.
As a parent sorry but my child and me had a way better experience with him in specialist school. Not every child is for mainstream and I know many people, with lots of money, who didnt even do their exams. Im now home schooling another child as mainstream secondary school has massively affected her mental well being. Btw she was top of the class from nursery to year 6. Every child is different but you teachers want them like soldiers. But that's allowed. Parents have no power now. We cant do right for doing wrong and the system really doesnt help.
@@phillipgriffiths9624 I'm retired now, so I'm a bit out of touch, but around the turn of the Millennium it was certainly the case that candidates for any Senior Management role in education had to learn to parrot the 'correct' set of answers to questions on a predetermined range of education topics. The interview feedback process informed them which of their answers were 'right', and which answers were 'wrong'. On average, it took aspiring Headteachers three or four interviews at different schools before they were able to regurgitate the complete set of correct answers, and get the job. I suppose this is the same in many professions now.
You have explained exactly how I found my years in teaching to be, and my husband Tommy, now retired, found the very same principle at play during his years in HMP Prison Service.
No wonder this headteacher is getting excellent results in practically everything so good it’s so obvious this woman earns every penny as she puts into her job 100% shame there’s not more like her
I ‘ve requested to have access at the information my son was taught in RSE (year 5!) and I was told that the teacher will email it to me. Never got that information, nor an excuse for the reason why they couldn’t share with parents the material taught in that lesson. But the school emailed to parents to inform them that we are not allowed anymore to withdraw our children from these lessons. If they can share the curriculum for any other lesson, why is RSE something parents aren’t allowed to know about? Is that okay, is it allowed parents to be ashamed for making enquiries about it?
100%, I homeschool too. My daughter went through hell at school and being ND, the system is set up for her to fail. She has progressed so much since and is happy, following her interests. I didn't want her in this woke rubbish either. The things she told me that were happening to her with teachers as well as children, were unbelievable! I fought with the school and went to endless meetings which were a complete waste of time. She was assaulted by a teacher so we went to the police but of course, they all covered for him. Took her to hospital with a head injury and they called Social Services on me as they thought I was lying that a teacher did this. No CCTV to prove anything.
@@thsxi I was fairly quick at my homework, so it took only a couple of hours. But you had to behave in school corridors, no running etc. Teachers were very strict, I had the cane once or twice, which taught me valuable lessons which stayed with me throughout my whole life.
This headteacher is a national treasure - in fact I would go as far to say, she’s one of our very few national treasures - I bet Labour hate her?!? Wouldn’t it be great if our new government invited her to lead education in the UK. Her schools results tell their own story.
"We've never refused to give parents a copy of our content." - Bold faced lie. The ICO and courts are involved, this is incredibly easy to prove. Liars are teaching our children on behalf of the state and excluding parents. Including obfuscating content in the up front disclosure where the right to withdraw your child is in effect. Absolutely disgusting
If the lesson is about consent and the teacher educates in subjects not deemed appropriate to the lesson, the teacher should be charged with grooming. Let's not sugar coat it. It is 100% grooming young children who doesn't know if what they learning is right or wrong.
You are correct. I think the term 'grooming' should be displayed big on banners at protests. Everyone can stand together on this issue. Help heal our differences.
My Niece’s children attended an exclusive private school, she withdrew them when they came home and said they weren’t allowed to refer to them as ‘mummy’ and ‘daddy’ because it might offend! 😳 They are now home educated 👍
SE commercial groups should not be allowed in schools or their material without being thoroughly vetted and parents given full access to the lessons and materials. The parents over ride anyone else on the safe guarding of their children.
Where are the teacher whistle blowers who could and should release the documents? . I’m disgusted with teachers after what they allowed to be done to children under their watch during Covid. Like doctors - they were brainwashed into totalitarian thinking and harmed those who they could have protected. But had a holiday instead.
This is how all headteachers used to be, I love listening to this woman, just pure sense, common sense, non political, looking out for the children she's responsible for and teaching them what they need to know not the latest fad.
@@TaxingIsThieving Indeed it was a very good 14 years for stabbers, fraudsters, scammers and the illegal immigration businesses being handed £billions of British taxpayers money.
@@TaxingIsThieving But all the issues with deteriorating standards in education and overfilled nonsense in the curriculum have amplified over the last 14 years. Tories and Labour are two cheeks of the same arse.
Nothing new here! It’s been going on for years. Destroying grammar schools and teachers refusing to coach for the 11 + exams. A blatant attack on working class kids.
Unscrupulous self policing groups with financial incentives to keep a lid on their methods. All you need though are warm and cuddly PR slogans and they appear benign, caring, even enlightened. Dangerous.
How is it possible that parents can't have access to the class plans and scrutinise the materials they are going to use with kids? It's unbelievable that this mother had to go to court and LOST the case!!!
I agree. The wefare, safety, and education actually became an election issue in 1996, which saw John Major lose Tony Blair. Itwas so bad I ended up home schooling my eldest sons.
Took my 6 year old out of school because of bullying, a migrant child kept kicking spitting and pulling her hair, apparently he didn't like her blonde hair and blue eyes, teachers said he was learning how to behave and they would move her to another class away from her friends, told them to go F themselves, months later the boy was removed from school for attacking a teacher and they then said my daughter can return now, told them to F off. She is home schooled now and loving life.
Was born and raised in the UK but now a US citizen and live in Texas. At our sons' school there used to be a cell phone problem until the school instituted the following policy. Now, if a student gets caught using their cell phone in class it's confiscated and the student's parents have to come to the school to pick it up. If the student gets caught using it a second time within six weeks, same as before, it's confiscated/parents have to pick it up and the student gets a discipline referral to the principal which can mean a paddling since schools around here have corporal punishment as a disciplinary option.The students also say the Pledge of Allegiance every day and the Stars and Stripes flies outside every school and is in every classroom. Totally different environment here from UK schools.
You think the pledge of allegiance is a good thing? I think it's state manipulating children's minds to blindly support a national identity meanwhile the USA let's it's people down in comparison to other first world democracies.
Michaela should join Reform as head of diverse, oh that be good she had all colour and religion and best school in London. Michaela, be great for going forward to great Britannia.
This is disgusting I’ll do my best to homeschool and if I’m unable (my twins are non verbal at 3) then I’ll be sending them to such lessons fully equipped to ask questions and shame the weirdo teaching this stuff to CHILDREN. If they remain non verbal they absolutely will not be in those lessons!
I pulled my two from school early and they never went to high school I’m so glad we didn’t send them ,you don’t have to ,if you can home school please do it for your kids
9:37 The schools are violating parental rights, in secrecy, their response is cry-bullying: we're being harassed and threated, claim they're scared, blame the parents whose rights are violated, and make claims that their secrets and lies are "potentially life saving". But, but... we're saving lives, we're literal heros, how dare you object to strangers instilling their own moral sensibilities into your children! WE (educators) have decided what's best for everyone. It's "evidence based" too - but you can't see it! 🙄😓 The evidence was written by heavily biased "experts" who manipulated the data to support their grungy lifestyle.
Haha! I wrote that they would call it "evidence based" before the reporter stated the schools claim. 👍🏻 The mother is correct. There is no way commercial secrecy or copyright issues would relate to this. If they're that worried about their material being copied, they're in the wrong line of business and should not publish textbooks!
I’m a teacher and I totally agree with this Headteacher on almost everything she says. And I am NOT a fan of this Labour government at all. If they bring back coursework, the achievement gap between rich and poor pupils will increase even further.
This is exactly the type of head every school needs. Our children are confused, school should be an oasis from the madness of our world. The expectation to personally grow and nurture self reliance is much needed. We need the right people for the job not the ones given free passes because of having one "real or imagined" disadvantage over another.
Glad she said it out loud that a headteacher is a serious managerial role and people in them should be able to take responsibility and live up the gravity of the job, not collapse in a heap under any pressure and accountability, demanding mollycoddling.
Lowered standards in Australian schools for indigenous students who are told their “indigenous culture” is more important than Western culture. Then ALP political Ministerial ABC highlight a widening gap between education outcomes, employment outcomes, & quality of life.
@TS50ER You have too much time on your hands to be spending your time spell check and grammar checking the comments rather than commenting on the clip.
@@RTG1031Your sentence is illogical. You wrote: 'You have too much time on your hands to be spending your time spell check and grammar checking the comments.' Suggest: 'You seem to have too much time on your hands to be spell-checking and grammar-checking the comments.' You could have also used the negative: ' You don't have enough time on your hands to be spending your time spell-checking and grammar-checking the comments.'
I agree with everything Catherine is doing at the school, my only criticism (and that’s not just in this school, all primary schools) primary school children shouldn’t be given homework beyond practising for a test or something like that. when I was in primary school in the 80s there wasn’t any homework, I just think kids of their age are put under too much pressure with the ridiculous amount of homework they’re given.
When I was at primary school we were given homework, this is the case for the private convent school I attended to the age of 8, & the state schools I attended thereafter. When you claim that primary school children shouldn't get any homework at all are you speaking from factual evidence based statistics or are you merely naive in regards to the capabilities of children.
Children in the UK at 16 get 5 hours if homework a week. Compare this to China and Korea where on average they are given 14 hours of homework a week. Nobody in the UK is suggesting that children should be under pressure at primary school. But some homework that's age appropriate will do no harm.
@@Jay-Kay-Buwembo I don’t give a shit what China and Korea do, we aren’t in China or Korea (thank goodness). l just don’t think it’s good for children between the ages of 5 & 11 to go to school for 7 hours a day five days a week, then come home from school and spend another couple of hours doing homework. Primary school children should be able to leave school at 3:15pm & be kids until the next morning. Also l’m not entirely sure why you felt the need to me how many hours Children in the UK at the age of 16 do homework? I didn’t mention anything about Secondary school kids, I was speaking solely on Primary school aged children, I’m fully aware that everyone gets homework in Secondary School.
@@lolalouise9503 We had age appropriate homework in primary school. If children have homework they will be able to adjust to the demands of secondary school, otherwise there is a sudden jump. Who said that children under 10 are doing 2 hours of homework at home? It should be age appropriate, primary school is about setting a foundation & the focus is on learning rather than large workloads. I had private tuition since I was 7 years old also.
@@lolalouise9503 I mentioned China because some people in the UK think that the expectations on children are steep and extreme. UK is far more relaxed than in the far East.
Bullying in schools with children affected by the covid school disruption is rife. So many kids are trying to change schools because it seems the interests of the bullies are taking precidence over trying to get troubled kids back into class. Pastoral care is at breaking point and lacks the funding to help those in need.
Well done that parent demanding transparency from her daughter's school. Parents should have the right to know what their children are being taught in school especially these days where indoctrination of kids is considered more important than actually teaching kids real facts
Public institutions including schools have been infiltrated by perverts. Look at the BBC - full of perverts. Schools are the means perverts are using to groom little children. Keep fighting against this.
Only thing I had a problem with here is what she said about coursework. On one hand she said that her school doesn't accept any excuses around homework etc. and ridicules people who use class or race as an excuse but when it comes to coursework she said working class are at a disadvantage...why does she get to make those exceptions and use that excuse when it suits her agenda? Some people don't do very well in exams for many reasons. In the world of work we don't do exams but very often have projects that would be compatible with coursework. At Uni we do essays which is essentially coursework. I don't see this being an issue and having a good balance between coursework and exams seems perfectly sensible to me.
It’s funny how common sense headteacher is very controversial nowadays 🙈
Indeed
This is the average Asian kid. We think they drop from the moon? they have just learnt to work hard under very strict parenting
This woman is a proper teacher!! She would be an excellent minister of education IMO.
Because she teaches them how to think not what to think.
Well , they're like Hens teeth!
Katherine should be the Education adviser to the government. She's amazing. No wokery, no victimhood in her classrooms .
She was an advisor to Michael Grove, the then education Secretary. She was hounded out by the left leaning teachers union and the Labour Party!
Personal responsibily vs victim culture.
This woman talks sense.
Absolutely
Absolutely, we have to raise resilient children.She needs to have many schools under her and then we will get children prepared for the 21st century.
Katherine is a fantastic headteacher ❤ Big respect to a great lady
More headteachers like Katherine please 🙏
@@ABM750
Has your son got a safe space? 😂
@@ricochet2977his safe space is 6 hours of homework a day
No she isn't she is talking crap but she is speaking on gbnews the channel for the hard of thinking
@@ianHolmes-up2oc 🫵🤡
Well, done for fighting for your right protecting your children. Something really strange going on trying to make next generation over sexualised and low educated. Scary stuff.
it's all about the kiddie fiddlers, when have we ever taught young children to think of themselves sexually, it's just wrong on so many levels, it makes me sick this country is going down the drain unless we the people put the plug in and soon
Next Gen Where have you been they did this to the last Gen this one even more
It's Sharia appeasement.
Child Abuse!
Almost easier to manipulate for their WEF agenda 🤔 everything is done on purpose 😡
It's so simple what she is saying.....Back to basics and discipline.
My husband Tommy is Irish, and he was an Officer at HMP Parkhurst for twenty five years, and his attitude is exactly the same as yours.
You're racist, we need to teach our kids that bein gay is normal and also changing your gender.
Id have loved to be in a school that had clear rules. They never explained any rules to us but would bully us when we broke them. So you could never be good and you could never argue your case. My first day an older girl swuirted ink in my eye which i spent 20 minutes in the ba th room washing my eye out which was reasonable im not into going blind. I was from a different town and knew nobody but i was given suspesion for being late for class and not saying who did it to me. I didnt know anyone. It was all so unreasonable. I feel like if i was late to class bevause i was washing ink out of my eye this woman wouldnt have punished me but would have said i did the right thing for the health of my eye. Common sense
Labour don't like the working class or the elderly. Who's next on the list?
Teachers and schools by the look of things.
[looks down list]
it'll be Intellectuals, Political dissenters and Farm owners next.
Natives of course
Natives !
@@kenricnarbrough8191 farmers have been getting beaten up for years,there is a limit.Cant blame Starmer for that.
Two-tier policing, two-tier reporting, two-tier government, two-tier judges, two-tier healthcare, two-tier Kier and now two-tier education
Starmer is passing control of this country to Islam.. making sure of course, he gets well looked after..
I would bet my life savings that none of the politicians children ever see any of this dangerous wokealphabet poison in the exclusive schools that they attend.
@@SteveOwen-e6s the alligator he's feeding may still eat him at the end, though.
Private schools have been around for years...
Don't forget 2Tier taxes on pensions.
Weak parents destroy their kids opportunities later in life, this Headmistress is the woman who should be in charge of education full stop, instead of the woke teachers who teach nothing today, a no nonsense teacher standing for nothing other than work hard and learn.
I just commented the same ... She would be a great minister for education!!
They remove discipline then blame parents 😮 you can't even raise your voice at a child without being stared at , it's madness , I think the government think they are their children ! My mum just had to give me the stare 👀 and I knew to behave 😂😂😂
@@Wasssssup-3 I know exactly what you mean, the stare was all it took with me and my sisters too, my mum never even had to raise her voice to us and if she found out we had been misbehaving annoying other adults, like at school, there would be hell to pay.
@@Wasssssup-3As messed up as this is, you're right. The minute you register YOUR child, they legally become gov property!
@@Wasssssup-3they are the governments children lol…. Registering them is the same as getting a v5 for your vehicle… your just the child’s registered keeper
She is right. This is a top teacher 👏
I was an abused child, school was my safe haven, where doing homework and getting the only praises any adult ever gave me was wonderful. I was heartbroken when I had to leave. Some kids need that stability. ❤
I too was abused, but you were lucky that the school was a safe haven for you, for me that certainly wasn't the case.
@@YvonneCairns-c9u I am so sorry to hear about your school. Sometimes people won't listen to the truth as other people have told them that you lie, so they can control you more. Be strong you and others like you are stronger than you think.
As a retired teaching who always had good discipline, I must say that schools today desperately need headteachers like this!
Your grammar is bad for an ex "teaching"!
@@PUNKinDRUBLIC72Never heard of autocorrect or a typo?
Society as a whole desperately needs people with this traditional mindset!!!!
@@user-bo3mp8un6c Sorry.
I thought this just the other day. It is white, working class in particular. Starmer just doesn't seem to like them.
The white, working class are now the most vulnerable in our society. They are getting left behind. It is deeply concerning.
I know ... And I know plenty of such people who voted for them.
It's not surprising. The working class was supposed to bring about the socialist revolution, Kier and his socialist friends were going to rule us until the end of time, and we were going to work in the mines. If we disagreed, then it would be the bullet or the gulag. When the working class didn't bring about the revolution, the left grew to hate them, that's why they now despise them and moved on to racial division and bringing in third-worlders who we bring about the socialist state.
It’s always been the working classes that are detested by the establishment because they have nothing to lose and are willing to take action. It’s fear you can smell. Middle classes are still paying off uni debt plus a mortgage and will be ruined if they take a stand and lose their jobs. They are the unreasonable people that tell you ‘I know I’m sorry I’m just doing my job’.
Crazy . He hates himself. He’s white.. BUT IS married to a due, so makes sense
Because we are the majority and therefore the biggest threat to his megalomania.
Why are parents not allowed to go in the school building? Why are we not allowed to know what our children are being taught? Its very worrying.
I would go as far as saying this is very dark and sinister behaviour.More like what one might associate with cult behaviour
indoctrination of lgbt
If you want a tour of Micaela school (Katherine's School) sign up on the website and stay for lunch to talk to the kids. Signup on the website
This women should be the Minister of Education.
6 hours of homework a day at her school, so 6 hours of homework a day for every school
Spot on, because Philipson is useless, never done a proper days work in her life, must admit, probably been to Elocution Lessons.?
She is more likely to be chased out of her job by Liebour
If only all the teachers in this country were like this marvellous woman.
Basic sex education is all that is required at schools. This manipulation of young innocent children towards inappropriate adult sexual discourse and material is disgraceful.
@Pange3
We weren't taught about sex education until we were in the last year of high school. I don't agree with young children being taught about it in primary school.
100%
I was taught about sex Education in like year 4 think I was about 9/10
Basic Biology is all you need in school. It should be the parents job to teach about intimate things as awkward as it may be. The state has way too much control over the minds of young people. They spend a full working day at school 5 days a week. It's far too much and counter-productive because by the end of the day you are completely zoned out. Half of that time they spend in school should be at home doing their homework.
Find God. He is our shield from these demons. I have threatened multiple teachers with law suits on the the breech of religious freedoms regarding this so called “sex education” more like “prostitution indoctrination”. They quickly back down and stop teaching it when they know they will loose in court. The law of man is powerful, but it is nothing to the law of God the father almighty. Protect and fight for the innocence of your children because the demons are on the march.
Katherine Birbalsingh this is what headteachers/ should be like!
There should not be anything taught or materials used in school that is not completely transparent.
You have spoken the most important truth of all in the education of the nations children.
Spot on about school inspections. I have felt this was for a long time. If schools are so good, what are they afraid of! Parents should be able to inspect schools in an organised way. This would keep teachers and schools on their toes!
Good on this brave woman!
The real brave teachers are those who work in state schools every day. Not this self publicist. Not surprising that Suella Braverman is on the board of governors at the "Outstanding" Michaela community school, working outside of the state school system. All this exposure on TV is going to her head. "Facts over Feelings" is a right wing anti-woke meme normally uttered by gender critical types. Feelings don't count in the robot world of digits, "facts" and "logic..."
I homeschooled my daughter from age 12. My only regret is not doing it from day one!
^ this!! And this comes from a retired state school teacher. Get your kids out!!
Me too 💪🏻💪🏻
my sister is pregnant right now and is going to homeschool her kid
I remember when a German family escaped Germany about 10-15 years ago because Germany outlawed homeschooling. In the US, we have wide open borders form criminals to cross through but the government is still fighting to deport this family.
I expect the rest of us will eventually be outlaws for homeschooling.
First they came for the private schools, then they came for homeschool...
She is so right .. this country has become far to soft.
A pity there's only one Katherine Birbalsingh. Every school needs a headteacher like her.
My god I love this teacher/headmistress! Absolutely bang on the money, especially where Ofsted's policies are implemented based on 'feelings'!!
Imagine working for Ofsted. What a sad existence that would be.
This headteacher is superb. The children and their families are very fortunate to have her leadership.
6 hours a day of homework isn’t fortunate
@@thsxi😂😂
@@thsxiyou don't want homework for your child?
Keep going you are doing a great job. You clearly care about the children in your school.
It’s a pity the country hasn’t more headteachers like this.
I totally agree with this teacher. We need more discipline in our schools.
Discipline leads to more rebelllion.
Vote for Reform and make her Minister of Education.
I admire this woman immensely 👏👏👏
I want my child to go to her school. I would withdraw my child from sex education it's been politicised and a lot of woke ideology. 🤮🤢
She should be the education minister.
Where was this woman when I was a Child?
I was a child of physical neglect with multiple visits from social services. Nobody expected anything of me. I needed a teacher like this. It's very strict but it's the most honest way of saying "I believe in your abilities".
I was a professional teacher for many years, and I can assure you, if you visit school classrooms, you will sooner or later see many fantastic teachers in action. But you will only find these very talented people in mainstream classrooms. You will not find them in any 'out of classroom' roles. This is because poor teachers are often desperate to get out of the classroom, but wish to remain on the education gravy-trail. 'Route One' out of the classroom is via 'promotion'. In every local education authority, you will therefore see many failed teachers employed as Headteachers, LEA inspectors and LEA advisory teachers. Of course, the OFSTED service itself is the preferred career choice for many of these failed teachers.
I have seen this in action so many times over my 25 years in teaching. One was made to feel guilty if one simply wanted to stay in the classroom. So many hopeless teachers were promoted to non- teaching roles.
As a parent sorry but my child and me had a way better experience with him in specialist school. Not every child is for mainstream and I know many people, with lots of money, who didnt even do their exams. Im now home schooling another child as mainstream secondary school has massively affected her mental well being. Btw she was top of the class from nursery to year 6. Every child is different but you teachers want them like soldiers. But that's allowed. Parents have no power now. We cant do right for doing wrong and the system really doesnt help.
@@phillipgriffiths9624 I'm retired now, so I'm a bit out of touch, but around the turn of the Millennium it was certainly the case that candidates for any Senior Management role in education had to learn to parrot the 'correct' set of answers to questions on a predetermined range of education topics. The interview feedback process informed them which of their answers were 'right', and which answers were 'wrong'. On average, it took aspiring Headteachers three or four interviews at different schools before they were able to regurgitate the complete set of correct answers, and get the job. I suppose this is the same in many professions now.
You have explained exactly how I found my years in teaching to be, and my husband Tommy, now retired, found the very same principle at play during his years in HMP Prison Service.
STILL reading The Guardian then?
No wonder this headteacher is getting excellent results in practically everything so good it’s so obvious this woman earns every penny as she puts into her job 100% shame there’s not more like her
I ‘ve requested to have access at the information my son was taught in RSE (year 5!) and I was told that the teacher will email it to me. Never got that information, nor an excuse for the reason why they couldn’t share with parents the material taught in that lesson. But the school emailed to parents to inform them that we are not allowed anymore to withdraw our children from these lessons. If they can share the curriculum for any other lesson, why is RSE something parents aren’t allowed to know about? Is that okay, is it allowed parents to be ashamed for making enquiries about it?
This lady needs to become head of education for the UK
Homeschool, homeschool, homeschool.
I agree, but this is also a terribly sad reflection on how far the national school system has fallen.
@@heathermcdougall8023 Doesn't matter. If nobody turned up, there'd be no point. Boycott state schools.
100%, I homeschool too. My daughter went through hell at school and being ND, the system is set up for her to fail. She has progressed so much since and is happy, following her interests. I didn't want her in this woke rubbish either. The things she told me that were happening to her with teachers as well as children, were unbelievable! I fought with the school and went to endless meetings which were a complete waste of time. She was assaulted by a teacher so we went to the police but of course, they all covered for him. Took her to hospital with a head injury and they called Social Services on me as they thought I was lying that a teacher did this. No CCTV to prove anything.
If I were in that part of the country, I'd be very happy for this lady to be my childrens head teacher.
Here is a clear reason for why parents home school their children. Both women, should be commended for protecting the development of our children.
Rename schools to indoctrination centres that would be good for Borg has you! You must comply! Resistance is futile!
Sounds like the school I remember from 50 years ago. Happy days!
U did 6 hours of homework a day 50 years ago?
@@thsxi I was fairly quick at my homework, so it took only a couple of hours. But you had to behave in school corridors, no running etc. Teachers were very strict, I had the cane once or twice, which taught me valuable lessons which stayed with me throughout my whole life.
This headteacher is a national treasure - in fact I would go as far to say, she’s one of our very few national treasures - I bet Labour hate her?!? Wouldn’t it be great if our new government invited her to lead education in the UK. Her schools results tell their own story.
Katharine should be PM she talks common sense & I have no doubt she turns out good citizens from her school.
Total respect for this lady
"We've never refused to give parents a copy of our content." - Bold faced lie. The ICO and courts are involved, this is incredibly easy to prove.
Liars are teaching our children on behalf of the state and excluding parents. Including obfuscating content in the up front disclosure where the right to withdraw your child is in effect.
Absolutely disgusting
Sounds like a perfect school.
If the lesson is about consent and the teacher educates in subjects not deemed appropriate to the lesson, the teacher should be charged with grooming. Let's not sugar coat it. It is 100% grooming young children who doesn't know if what they learning is right or wrong.
You are correct.
I think the term 'grooming'
should be displayed big on banners at protests.
Everyone can stand together
on this issue.
Help heal our differences.
A woman with common sense ie wisdom - great to see
So her school is basically a private school without the fees.
My private secondary school that I attended 30 years ago was as strict as Michela. It produces results and highly educated young people.
@@francesboardman8584 I’m not saying it’s a bad thing at all. My son goes to private school, so I recognise the same methods
My Niece’s children attended an exclusive private school, she withdrew them when they came home and said they weren’t allowed to refer to them as ‘mummy’ and ‘daddy’ because it might offend! 😳 They are now home educated 👍
SE commercial groups should not be allowed in schools or their material without being thoroughly vetted and parents given full access to the lessons and materials. The parents over ride anyone else on the safe guarding of their children.
Both these women are heroes ✊
Where are the teacher whistle blowers who could and should release the documents? . I’m disgusted with teachers after what they allowed to be done to children under their watch during Covid. Like doctors - they were brainwashed into totalitarian thinking and harmed those who they could have protected. But had a holiday instead.
What did teachers allow to be done?
This is how all headteachers used to be, I love listening to this woman, just pure sense, common sense, non political, looking out for the children she's responsible for and teaching them what they need to know not the latest fad.
This is who should be minister for education, NOT so.e career MP !
😢 its sad. High respect for this lady. She is a true teacher at heart!
It's a "commercial secret" but they are sharing it with entire classrooms daily🤨... bullsh...😒
Labour is vile.
Last 14 years was Conservative
@@greni7472 And what a relatively good 14 years it was.
@@TaxingIsThieving Indeed it was a very good 14 years for stabbers, fraudsters, scammers and the illegal immigration businesses being handed £billions of British taxpayers money.
@@TaxingIsThieving But all the issues with deteriorating standards in education and overfilled nonsense in the curriculum have amplified over the last 14 years. Tories and Labour are two cheeks of the same arse.
@@dehn6581 Still clinging onto that delusion 😳😳😳
Every School should have a head teacher like her
They already teaching lgbtq to kids in primary. Go figure
She should run this shambolic, fractured country!!
She is proper.
My child will not be going into the British school system, without me closely examining all of their curriculum for every class.
They are sickening.
MPs send their children to fee paying schools and then punish you financially for wanting to do the same.
A national treasure... Godspeed.
This was just the normal school when I was growing up
Nothing new here! It’s been going on for years. Destroying grammar schools and teachers refusing to coach for the 11 + exams. A blatant attack on working class kids.
Labour, made to represent the working class eh. That didn't last very long
It’s quite interesting that this ideology has been rolled out simultaneously across the western world.
Unscrupulous self policing groups with financial incentives to keep a lid on their methods. All you need though are warm and cuddly PR slogans and they appear benign, caring, even enlightened. Dangerous.
How is it possible that parents can't have access to the class plans and scrutinise the materials they are going to use with kids? It's unbelievable that this mother had to go to court and LOST the case!!!
I agree. The wefare, safety, and education actually became an election issue in 1996, which saw John Major lose Tony Blair. Itwas so bad I ended up home schooling my eldest sons.
This was reply to bbuz1687
The headmistress needs to be in charge of our schools and our children's education
Took my 6 year old out of school because of bullying, a migrant child kept kicking spitting and pulling her hair, apparently he didn't like her blonde hair and blue eyes, teachers said he was learning how to behave and they would move her to another class away from her friends, told them to go F themselves, months later the boy was removed from school for attacking a teacher and they then said my daughter can return now, told them to F off. She is home schooled now and loving life.
Was born and raised in the UK but now a US citizen and live in Texas. At our sons' school there used to be a cell phone problem until the school instituted the following policy. Now, if a student gets caught using their cell phone in class it's confiscated and the student's parents have to come to the school to pick it up. If the student gets caught using it a second time within six weeks, same as before, it's confiscated/parents have to pick it up and the student gets a discipline referral to the principal which can mean a paddling since schools around here have corporal punishment as a disciplinary option.The students also say the Pledge of Allegiance every day and the Stars and Stripes flies outside every school and is in every classroom. Totally different environment here from UK schools.
Not in all parts of
Texas it isn't !
You think the pledge of allegiance is a good thing? I think it's state manipulating children's minds to blindly support a national identity meanwhile the USA let's it's people down in comparison to other first world democracies.
"THE PARTY TOLD YOU TO REJECT THE EVIDENCE OF YOUR EYES AND EARS. IT WAS THEIR FINAL AND MOST ESSENTIAL COMMAND"
George Orwell - 1984
Love and respect this lady 100 percent. Wish all teachers and parents shared similar values
Michaela should join Reform as head of diverse, oh that be good she had all colour and religion and best school in London.
Michaela, be great for going forward to great Britannia.
I agree with everything except the “lots” of homework. That’s messed up. Was when I was in school, still wrong for my son.
This is disgusting I’ll do my best to homeschool and if I’m unable (my twins are non verbal at 3) then I’ll be sending them to such lessons fully equipped to ask questions and shame the weirdo teaching this stuff to CHILDREN. If they remain non verbal they absolutely will not be in those lessons!
I pulled my two from school early and they never went to high school I’m so glad we didn’t send them ,you don’t have to ,if you can home school please do it for your kids
9:37 The schools are violating parental rights, in secrecy, their response is cry-bullying: we're being harassed and threated, claim they're scared, blame the parents whose rights are violated, and make claims that their secrets and lies are "potentially life saving". But, but... we're saving lives, we're literal heros, how dare you object to strangers instilling their own moral sensibilities into your children! WE (educators) have decided what's best for everyone. It's "evidence based" too - but you can't see it! 🙄😓 The evidence was written by heavily biased "experts" who manipulated the data to support their grungy lifestyle.
Haha! I wrote that they would call it "evidence based" before the reporter stated the schools claim. 👍🏻 The mother is correct. There is no way commercial secrecy or copyright issues would relate to this. If they're that worried about their material being copied, they're in the wrong line of business and should not publish textbooks!
I’m a teacher and I totally agree with this Headteacher on almost everything she says. And I am NOT a fan of this Labour government at all. If they bring back coursework, the achievement gap between rich and poor pupils will increase even further.
Keep pushing through the darkness
This is exactly the type of head every school needs. Our children are confused, school should be an oasis from the madness of our world. The expectation to personally grow and nurture self reliance is much needed. We need the right people for the job not the ones given free passes because of having one "real or imagined" disadvantage over another.
Wow, this is how I’d like all headteachers.
Glad she said it out loud that a headteacher is a serious managerial role and people in them should be able to take responsibility and live up the gravity of the job, not collapse in a heap under any pressure and accountability, demanding mollycoddling.
Lowered standards in Australian schools for indigenous students who are told their “indigenous culture” is more important than Western culture. Then ALP political Ministerial ABC highlight a widening gap between education outcomes, employment outcomes, & quality of life.
Should of let the teacher carry on about the smartphones
Should 'have'. No such thing as 'should of'. You are thinking of 'should've'.
@TS50ER Rightly or wrongly, should of is the way that many people converse in conversation if you listen carefully.
It's the contracted form of 'have'. It may well sound like 'of' in colloquial form, but it sure as Shinola isn't written 'should of'.
@TS50ER You have too much time on your hands to be spending your time spell check and grammar checking the comments rather than commenting on the clip.
@@RTG1031Your sentence is illogical.
You wrote: 'You have too much time on your hands to be spending your time spell check and grammar checking the comments.'
Suggest:
'You seem to have too much time on your hands to be spell-checking and grammar-checking the comments.'
You could have also used the negative:
' You don't have enough time on your hands to be spending your time spell-checking and grammar-checking the comments.'
Excellent from the commonsense headteacher.
And schools shouldn't have anything to hide. No excuses.
Children should never be given sex education at school. Leave this to parents!
I was given sex ed at school and it was basically pointless because it was abstinence based and didn't cover any material for gay men
This lady is a Great Britain. As a father I 100% I support you. Keep at it.
I agree with everything Catherine is doing at the school, my only criticism (and that’s not just in this school, all primary schools) primary school children shouldn’t be given homework beyond practising for a test or something like that.
when I was in primary school in the 80s there wasn’t any homework, I just think kids of their age are put under too much pressure with the ridiculous amount of homework they’re given.
When I was at primary school we were given homework, this is the case for the private convent school I attended to the age of 8, & the state schools I attended thereafter.
When you claim that primary school children shouldn't get any homework at all are you speaking from factual evidence based statistics or are you merely naive in regards to the capabilities of children.
Children in the UK at 16 get 5 hours if homework a week.
Compare this to China and Korea where on average they are given 14 hours of homework a week.
Nobody in the UK is suggesting that children should be under pressure at primary school. But some homework that's age appropriate will do no harm.
@@Jay-Kay-Buwembo I don’t give a shit what China and Korea do, we aren’t in China or Korea (thank goodness).
l just don’t think it’s good for children between the ages of 5 & 11 to go to school for 7 hours a day five days a week, then come home from school and spend another couple of hours doing homework.
Primary school children should be able to leave school at 3:15pm & be kids until the next morning.
Also l’m not entirely sure why you felt the need to me how many hours Children in the UK at the age of 16 do homework?
I didn’t mention anything about Secondary school kids, I was speaking solely on Primary school aged children, I’m fully aware that everyone gets homework in Secondary School.
@@lolalouise9503 We had age appropriate homework in primary school. If children have homework they will be able to adjust to the demands of secondary school, otherwise there is a sudden jump.
Who said that children under 10 are doing 2 hours of homework at home? It should be age appropriate, primary school is about setting a foundation & the focus is on learning rather than large workloads.
I had private tuition since I was 7 years old also.
@@lolalouise9503 I mentioned China because some people in the UK think that the expectations on children are steep and extreme. UK is far more relaxed than in the far East.
Bullying in schools with children affected by the covid school disruption is rife. So many kids are trying to change schools because it seems the interests of the bullies are taking precidence over trying to get troubled kids back into class. Pastoral care is at breaking point and lacks the funding to help those in need.
Well done that parent demanding transparency from her daughter's school. Parents should have the right to know what their children are being taught in school especially these days where indoctrination of kids is considered more important than actually teaching kids real facts
Public institutions including schools have been infiltrated by perverts. Look at the BBC - full of perverts. Schools are the means perverts are using to groom little children. Keep fighting against this.
She sounds wonderful!
I totally agree with the smart phone argument,but this is a battle that is huge to overcome.
Only thing I had a problem with here is what she said about coursework.
On one hand she said that her school doesn't accept any excuses around homework etc. and ridicules people who use class or race as an excuse but when it comes to coursework she said working class are at a disadvantage...why does she get to make those exceptions and use that excuse when it suits her agenda?
Some people don't do very well in exams for many reasons. In the world of work we don't do exams but very often have projects that would be compatible with coursework. At Uni we do essays which is essentially coursework.
I don't see this being an issue and having a good balance between coursework and exams seems perfectly sensible to me.
Now thats what you call a Head Teacher, pity we dont have anyone in goverment like her.