Who is ‘Britain’s strictest headteacher’ Katharine Birbalsingh?

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Michaela Community School in London is at the centre of a legal challenge.

Katharine Birbalsingh, who has been commonly described as Britain’s strictest headteacher, is no stranger to controversy.

She first grabbed the headlines at the 2010 Conservative Party conference with a damning speech on the state of England’s schools where she said standards had been “so dumbed down that even the teachers know it” and the education system was broken “as it keeps poor children poor”. Year 7 pupils at Michaela are required to attend a behaviour “boot camp” which teaches them how to walk to lessons quickly in single file, how to sit properly on a chair, and how to concentrate in class.

In October 2021, Ms Birbalsingh was appointed as chairwoman of the Government’s Social Mobility Commission . In April 2022, she found herself in hot water over comments to a Government committee which implied girls do not choose to study A-level physics because they dislike “hard maths”.

 

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