'We Shouldn't Lower Expectations For Disadvantaged Children' | Katharine Birbalsingh
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Katharine Birbalsingh talks about how disadvantaged children should be treated and what it is they need to succeed.
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Katharine Birbalsingh is the Chair of the Social Mobility Commission and Headmistress and co-founder of Michaela Community School in Wembley, London. Michaela is known for its tough-love behaviour systems, knowledge curriculum and teaching of kindness and gratitude.
In 2017, OFSTED graded the school as “Outstanding” in every category.
Katharine studied Philosophy & Modern Languages at The University of Oxford and has always taught in inner London.
She has made numerous appearances on television and radio and has written for several UK publications. Katharine has written two books and edited a third, plus a fourth called The Power of Culture which was published in June 2020.
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This woman needs more exposure. Her other interviews are very insightful.
Have watched a lot of her…she still had this “we need to fix this on the left but dont you dare vote for conservatives” vibe to her. Better than most obviously but seriously…she still toes the line pretty strategically.
I love her. She’s a great role model for teachers.
Katharine Birbalsingh is an absolute star, a national treasure who should have a much higher profile judged on her amazing success in education. The crazy WOKE far left institutions are always trying to pull her down because her philosophy and success embarrass their failure in the education sector. God bless her and may her ideas prevail to help not hinder our children... ❤❤❤
Never lower the bar, help every child up over it!
She s enforcing a true parent. Great person.
Oh thank God. Thank you.
“But it’s a very beautiful poem and embodies values that we want our children to learn” Thank you! I also appreciate that she’s bringing up how people want to be viewed as the nicer person because I think that is mainly why people have and are voting Democrat then and now.
We desperately need teachers like her in Australia.
This women, has some beautiful things to say .I only wish there were more teachers like her.
As Kenny Rogers taught us: every hand's a winner and every hand's a loser.
The voice of sanity
Brilliant interview. ❤ her fire, determination and directness. ❤
My son is autistic. My nephew also is.
My son went to regular school, has a good job now. Still struggles socially though.
My nephew went to a special school, where they reinforced the idea that he is disadvantaged. I can't see him getting a decent job ever.
I'm convinced his "education" has held him back.
Yeah? Maybe the parents of your nephew should carry some responsibility. Schools aren't Hogwarts and teachers aren't wizards. Parents need to be involved and collaborate.
@@kcbh24 Way to miss the point.
My brother was very involved in my nephews upbringing, more so than I was with my sons.
Unfortunately, the school filled his head with rubbish, and he realized it too late. He now has a victim mentality.
My son was taught all along that life is tough, and you need to push yourself to get ahead. My nephew was pampered, and my brother listened to the "experts" and went along with it.
@@merinsan I didn't miss the point at all. Firstly, there is no such thing as a "victim mentality". It's just a buzz phrase people like you use to look down on others, to marginalize, and to justify your own bigotry. Try listening to people when they share their stories because it's a humane, decent thing to do. Lift people up instead of putting them down and find commonality.
Secondly, autism, like many disorders, is on a spectrum. Your nephew might have other issues at play, too. Either way, it sounds like he's not in school and your brother needs to stop making excuses and empower his child.
As a child who was a caregiver (to parents and siblings) also working weekends - lowering expectations at certain times would have helped me but because I had no lowering of expectations, I had large gaps and no returning over anything I had missed.
If a 40 year old woman was doing these things (caregiver, worker and student) she would have the option of choices (even if they were not a choice she would like) yet children have very limited choices.
Children absolutely need both language and numeracy competence. The written word changed my life but if Shakespeare was the literature I was taught at school then it would have been a missed opportunity to fall in love with the written word (even as a midlife adult I find it nothing more than the equivalent to a day time soap drama). I also have never used algebra, Japanese or German, that time would have been spent on emotional regulation, EQ, critical thinking skills, food or sleep (sleep and food deficit is a huge barrier to learning).
We absolutely don’t want a world of victims but meeting grades at school does not insulate someone from having victim complex.
I agree with her sense of expectations but completely disagree with with her reasoning. It's not racism, it's class structure and laziness - education departments actively avoid dealing with difficult parents and courts too often blame the system for what is essentially a sub-standard parenting regime the results in a failed final exam result.
Then the education department needs to grow an actual spine (unfortunately unlikely) and back their teachers and curriculum.
Fail the children that failed, and celebrate the children that excel.
There's a reason why coloured ppl gravitate to the western countries. Because they know it is a better alternative. There's a saying in Vietnamese which translates as ' if you enter someone's home, you abide by their rules'.
wonderful brave woman A few more like her and humanity actually may survive and prosper
Yet here in Australia they are proposing that numeracy/maths lessons in year 3 maths should be replaced with indigenous dance classes because thats apparently a better way to teach numbers. Or maybe its an easier class to pass and it will stat pads the required numeracy levels? Not gonna help anyone in the long term...
This approach is the ONLY correct way to educate our children.
No matter what, victims can only be helped by non-victims.
So we should all strive to be non-victims, which is interestingly the opposite of what Marxists believe.
Birbalsingh: "...those are the cards you've been dealt. There's nothing you can do about those cards...who are we to lower our expectations..." We don't have to lower expectations, we do need to raise living conditions. Why should a child be disadvantaged because their parents don't have the wherewithal to provide what is needed to give them their best opportunity. That just perpetuates the situation. We don't need to lower expectations. We need to raise expectations...of what we as a society can do to get the best for, and from, children. Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away.
If you were in Africa or in Asia, you would be surprised how much Western culture has made its way there. And for good reasons.
She should meet up with Heather Mcdonald.
so logical...pity all the politicians, bureaucrats ,activists & similar a$$holes missed 'logic class'...their whole life! 🙊
Assimilate is a dirty word. Why?
What she said are all common sense and since when it needs real bravery to spell it out?!
Shall we mention the 1.2m wasted on launching a school that was then scrapped. Talk about disadvantage all you want. Rich people waste the money those at the bottom end of the ladder could have had