tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post8842725641408473353..comments2024-03-28T19:20:52.408+00:00Comments on WEMBLEY MATTERS: Katharine Birbalsingh menaces parents as well as pupilsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-23470752231854866102014-04-02T17:37:24.936+01:002014-04-02T17:37:24.936+01:00So, not really 'just another school', is i...So, not really 'just another school', is it?<br />And Birbalsingh is not 'just another head'. In fact, she's not a head at all. She's not even an experienced teacher. The whole thing is an ideological vanity project for her and Gove and a small group of zealots. And it's being funded by us. And it will be our kids who are left high and dry when it all goes tits up. If you want to give 'the kids' a chance, don't let them within a mile of these chancers. If you want to give Ms Birbalsingh a chance, tell her to go and set up on her own, using her own money just like anyone else wanting to start a school 'with a 'different approach' would have to do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-91833789479788748842014-04-01T10:53:53.078+01:002014-04-01T10:53:53.078+01:00 Just another school ………..?
‘Michael Gove approve... Just another school ………..?<br /><br />‘Michael Gove approves plan to spend £45m – six times the average – on school for 500 children as spending watchdog condemns ‘outrageous’ cost of Harris Westminster Sixth Form. So far the Government has spent £743m on establishing 174 free schools for 80,000 pupils. Capital costs of securing premises have been almost double DfE predictions’.<br />The Independent 29/03/2014. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-22031903625954713252014-04-01T03:08:03.791+01:002014-04-01T03:08:03.791+01:00Why all the vitriol? It's just another school ...Why all the vitriol? It's just another school with a different approach. If there isn't demand then it will close. Give the woman (and the kids) a chance. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-85804677309235884602014-03-31T19:22:22.711+01:002014-03-31T19:22:22.711+01:00I agree entirely, Mr Chas. Whenever I meet hundred...I agree entirely, Mr Chas. Whenever I meet hundreds of members of the Indian, Nigerian or Afro-Caribbean communities, they speak of nothing but the lack of benchmarking in modern Britain. And I wholeheartedly agree that we/they are the 'customers' as you put it. I do feel a little bit guilty sometimes though, when I think that, given the ludicrously expensive nature of the brave Free School experiment, all the other 'customers' in the land are having to fork out massive amounts of their hard-earned dosh just to fund my extravagant little whim. Still, that's their prerogative I suppose and If God hadn't wanted us to be dipping our selfish hands into other people's pockets he wouldn't have answered our prayers, would he? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-74610232713996556432014-03-31T17:39:52.797+01:002014-03-31T17:39:52.797+01:00I have read your relentless vilification of The Mi...I have read your relentless vilification of The Michaela Community School for some time. It seems to me that you would not wish your own children to be educated there. That is your prerogative. Were Michaela the only secondary school in a small town there might be an issue. In Brent this is clearly not the case. You are also entitled to a personal opinion. Where you are very wrong is that there is in fact a huge demand for an education like this, especially in the Nigerian, Afro - Caribbean and Indian communities. Before you ask, yes I do have 'evidence'. I met and talked to hundreds of such parents of year 6 kids on the streets outside primary schools in south London. They bemoan the lack of strong discipline, the lack of the imparting of knowledge by experts, the lack of benchmarking, the lack of high expectations etc in our schools. Many of these parents despair so much of many London schools that they scrape the money together to send their kids back to Jamaica, Nigeria to get such an education as will be offered at Michaela. Let us not forget that parents enrol their children in their chosen/allocated school and are therefore 'customers' of the State education system. You may not want to send your own offspring to Michaela, but many others do and will see their offering as an answer to their 'prayers'. I predict heavy oversubscription in the future, just as there is at West London FreeSchool. Let the parents decide.Mr_Chasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-51146800938194160272014-03-31T17:17:20.582+01:002014-03-31T17:17:20.582+01:00Oh dear. If you're going to patronise people i...Oh dear. If you're going to patronise people it's best to get your own clichés correct before you do it. It's 'fount' or 'font' , a source, not 'fountain' (of knowledge). And you don't IMpart something ONto people. <br />Not much in the way of rigour or traditional values there, Miss. Looks like you'll be getting homework from us (not 'we') parents at this rate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com