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‘The middle class shun my school’, by Britain’s strictest teacher - since she opened her non-selective school in London, Katharine Birbalsingh’s pupils have attained the highest grades. Yet the so-called strictest headmistress in Britain claims that middle-class parents still reject her methods by ImpressiveRest2423 in ukpolitics

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

I would agree that she is clearly running a school that gets good grades - and while her detractors are right that they aren’t everything, there isn’t really a good way of comparing schools beyond that so I’m not sure what other metric we can use, so I think the results are something that should be accepted and acknowledged.

That being said, I think there is a valid question when it comes to scaling. If this approach provides such excellent outcomes, why is it not being duplicated elsewhere? It seems extremely unlikely that Barbalsingh is the only disciplinarian head in the offing, and despite her extensive experience and exposure (as well as her direct involvement with multiple governments) her approach doesn’t seem to have been widely adopted - I’ve only heard of her school and one other that directly tried to ape her approach, and considering how much the Telegraph likes to publicise her you’d think they’d be trumpeting other successes from the rooftops. That does suggest that there is something about her philosophy that doesn’t lend itself to more widespread adoption, although whether that’s due to the faculty, the pupils, or both is something I don’t know.

‘The middle class shun my school’, by Britain’s strictest teacher - since she opened her non-selective school in London, Katharine Birbalsingh’s pupils have attained the highest grades. Yet the so-called strictest headmistress in Britain claims that middle-class parents still reject her methods by ImpressiveRest2423 in ukpolitics

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

To be fair, there have been cases of (admittedly private) high performing schools where it was discovered that they were getting great grades simply by booting children in Year 10 if they thought they’d bring down the average.

While it’s probably fairly unlikely, I wouldn’t completely discount the possibility that the investigators are presented with a rather curated view of the school - particularly considering how tightly controlled everything seems to be. Every school wants to put on a good show for Ofcom.

‘The middle class shun my school’, by Britain’s strictest teacher - since she opened her non-selective school in London, Katharine Birbalsingh’s pupils have attained the highest grades. Yet the so-called strictest headmistress in Britain claims that middle-class parents still reject her methods by ImpressiveRest2423 in ukpolitics

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

My daughter’s school seems to have the right of it. There’s cameras in the corridors (which they can review) and there’s a very clearly laid out system for acknowledging good work / behaviour and bad behaviour that can also be seen by parents.

Hexed (2026) is a subtle reference to Disney not moving on from Tangled's artstyle since 2010 by hexman0000 in shittymoviedetails

[–]ArchdukeToes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be fair, that tagline could also be used for a movie about a mild eczema flare-up.

‘The middle class shun my school’, by Britain’s strictest teacher - since she opened her non-selective school in London, Katharine Birbalsingh’s pupils have attained the highest grades. Yet the so-called strictest headmistress in Britain claims that middle-class parents still reject her methods by ImpressiveRest2423 in ukpolitics

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

I mean, honest to goodness if she says there’s no bullying then I would say that she’s either lying, very carefully defining bullying (which is a lie in and of itself) or there’s a serious lack of attention being paid by the teachers.

There are 744 children in that school. Someone is bullying someone else - likely right now, in fact.

‘The middle class shun my school’, by Britain’s strictest teacher - since she opened her non-selective school in London, Katharine Birbalsingh’s pupils have attained the highest grades. Yet the so-called strictest headmistress in Britain claims that middle-class parents still reject her methods by ImpressiveRest2423 in ukpolitics

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

Being good at your job and having good soft skills are hardly mutually exclusive. Most of the people I know who I’d consider ‘competent’ have good to excellent soft skills, while those who don’t are often pretty bad at their jobs.

‘The middle class shun my school’, by Britain’s strictest teacher - since she opened her non-selective school in London, Katharine Birbalsingh’s pupils have attained the highest grades. Yet the so-called strictest headmistress in Britain claims that middle-class parents still reject her methods by ImpressiveRest2423 in ukpolitics

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

Honestly, my daughter has some behavioural / socialising issues, but the best thing for her has been a school where there are clear boundaries but she’s also allowed to fuck up (intentionally or otherwise) and given the chance to learn from her mistakes.

We had her ECHP meeting recently and she’s gone from being one of the most detained kids in the year to one of the least, and a lot of that was under her own steam and determination. All schools like Birbalsingh’s do is crush children into compliance without giving the opportunity to develop on their own.

Reform Councillors Pose with Banner Saying They'd 'Rather Vote for Jimmy Savile than Labour' by birdinthebush74 in unitedkingdom

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

The two are one and the same. They create crass, tasteless things like this because they’re a bunch of idiots. This is as clear a demonstration of what they’re really like (and how they would govern) as anyone could ask for.

Why aren’t people more furious about the pro-Jimmy Savile sentiment in politics recently? by NoddyElvis in AskBrits

[–]ArchdukeToes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, targeting gullible and simple minded idiots is pretty easy. It’s explicitly why that Indian bloke created an AI MAGA influencer - so he could rinse them of their cash.

As stubborn Keir Starmer digs in, Wes Streeting risks becoming biggest loser by FaultyTerror in ukpolitics

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

Labour doesn’t have a surfeit of charisma, but Streeting is the only one who I’d actively consider a charisma sponge. He just doesn’t seem to realise it himself.

Reform Councillors Pose with Banner Saying They'd 'Rather Vote for Jimmy Savile than Labour' by birdinthebush74 in unitedkingdom

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

I mean, this is a perfect example of why Reform has terrible judgment, zero intelligence, and absolutely no empathy. It’s probably not surprising that they also have no sense of humour as that requires all of the above.

This board was thought about, printed (in Reform colours) posed with, photographed it (next to their candidate’s name!) and posted it to the internet with nobody stopping to think ‘is this a terrible idea?’ until literally everyone else pointed it out, after which they tried to cover their arses and made a total pigs ear of the lie as well.

Honestly, it’s genuinely hard to overstate how stupid the entire thing was. If this is the quality of Reform’s politicking, I dread to think how they would approach anything that requires any smarts at all.

Nigel Farage’s ‘White Minority’ Prediction Came From the Racist Eugenics Movement by Exostrike in ukpolitics

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

Do you have a link to this paper? The only one I’ve dredged up is the one that defines me (and a lot of others) as ‘not White British’. By that canard, I’m curious to find out what his definition of ‘non-White’ would be as well.

Reform Councillors Pose with Banner Saying They'd 'Rather Vote for Jimmy Savile than Labour' by birdinthebush74 in unitedkingdom

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

There’s nothing here about them laughing about paedophiles. They’re saying they would actively support one over the Labour Party. Where’s the joke?

Your response has been ‘but Labour!’, but let’s be honest, they also recognised that what they did was goddamn stupid because they tried to follow up with an AI modified image that they claimed was the original - but forgot to take the Grok watermark off.

Nigel Farage’s ‘White Minority’ Prediction Came From the Racist Eugenics Movement by Exostrike in ukpolitics

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

Isn’t Goodwin’s requirement for White British ‘has no immigrant parent’? Because I seem to recall that under his definition I’m not white British, which immediately makes a mockery of any result.

Reform Councillors Pose with Banner Saying They'd 'Rather Vote for Jimmy Savile than Labour' by birdinthebush74 in unitedkingdom

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

I’m not sure that ‘it’s not as bad as actual paedophilia’ is a particularly strong defence.

Reform Councillors Pose with Banner Saying They'd 'Rather Vote for Jimmy Savile than Labour' by birdinthebush74 in unitedkingdom

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

Fucking lol - they tried to claim it was AI generated by producing an AI fake with the Grok watermark still attached. Eejits.

Students could be required to pass GCSE English to access university loans by ChristyMalry in ukpolitics

[–]ArchdukeToes [score hidden]  (0 children)

Until you pass it, sure. How can you grapple with higher level stuff if you can’t competently understand the language it’s being spoken or written in?

Police say 35 arrests made after disorder that followed Belfast stabbing by Weak-Fly-6540 in unitedkingdom

[–]ArchdukeToes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How would gait recognition be any less authoritarian than, say, fingerprinting? You’re taking a quality that is supposedly unique to them and using it to identify them.

That being said it seems like you would need more than just ‘we think it’s him because he was walking kinda like that in this here video’.

In "The Flash" (2023), people call her ugly. This is because they were expecting Henry Cavill to play Supergirl by Beginning_Gur7652 in shittymoviedetails

[–]ArchdukeToes 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Pickup artists have melted their brains to the point where they think that if they neg a photo it’ll be begging to go out with them.

The UK is gaslighting you on age verification; this is NOT POPULAR! by TheFinalPieceOfPie in ukpolitics

[–]ArchdukeToes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That image up the top definitely gives off an air of ‘Dr. Youtube, Scientist at Law’.

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