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525: 512:, Minister for Women and Equalities, stated that "By expecting high standards and not indulging the soft bigotry of low expectations she is producing amazing results at Michaela school and giving children the best chance in life. She will bring that same attitude to the Commission and be a loud champion of equality of opportunity." Birbalsingh was criticised for comments she made in April 2022 regarding young women not pursuing physics, stating that "physics isn't something that girls tend to fancy. They don't want to do it, they don’t like it... I just think they don’t like it. There's a lot of hard maths in there that I think they would rather not do... the research generally … just says that's a natural thing,". Birbalsingh responded to some of these comments in an article in the 439: 608:, arguing that such measures encourage racial segregation over constructively solving racism, and distract from the true meaning of education. She has also maintained that using the term "white privilege" is unhelpful to ethnic minority students, as it creates an exaggerated perception that they are perpetually oppressed by the political establishment, and diminishes incentives to work hard. Birbalsingh instead maintains that factors such as the quality of schools, discipline, teaching and parental support at home are more likely to shape the outcome of a pupil's success over race, and that emphasis on race or 367: 51: 677: 195: 550:, Birbalsingh said that she previously identified as being on the political left at university but formed many of her current views through teaching in inner-city state schools and seeing the contrast between state school pupils and the educational opportunities of her fellow students at Oxford. She argued that her experiences working as a teacher in deprived areas led her to believe that the state education sector encouraged a "culture of excuses and low standards" with regard to discipline and quality. 554:
ethnicity of children than on promoting British national identity, stating, "Teachers would tell them all the time they weren't part of the country—they say what country are you really from? Let's do a cultural thing where we all bring in our flags. The people who are doing this think they're being nice. They think they're being respectful" but that children "didn't get taught about Shakespeare and Dickens—or that they were part of their country."
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convinced me beyond a shadow of a doubt that the system is broken, because it keeps poor children poor." Following this, she says she became the target of racist and sexist abuse on social media. After the speech Birbalsingh was asked not to attend the school at which she taught while the governors "discuss her position". She subsequently resigned "after being asked to comply with conditions that she did not feel able to comply with", according to
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exacerbates racism by making debates harder and encouraging black teenagers to focus on identity politics or victimhood. She has also rejected BLM's claims that British schools do not teach about slavery and black history, stating that poor teaching and lack of discipline in classrooms has meant that lessons on these subjects are improperly communicated and not committed to memory, and that the BLM movement narrows slavery down to the
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conference, and speaking in support of the party's education policies. Referring to a "culture of excuses, of low standards ... a sea of bureaucracy ... the chaos of our classrooms", Birbalsingh told the conference: "My experience of teaching for over a decade in five different schools has
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Birbalsingh has said that children used the "race card" when in disputes with teachers, and warned parents to take their children's claims of "racism" with a pinch of salt when disciplined at school. She also claimed that young black students were being held back from success in school by teachers
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have avoided serious conversations about racism, and that this in turn has drawn people to BLM. However, she is strongly critical of the tactics of the Black Lives Matter movement itself, arguing that it undermines the teaching of children to take personal responsibility, encourages violence, and
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Birbalsingh maintains that children of black and ethnic minority backgrounds are not sufficiently taught about British culture or Britishness in schools which has left them feeling "culturally excluded". She argues that such cultural exclusion happens due to teachers placing more emphasis on the
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in school as their brains are not developed enough for them to exercise proper self-control. She has likewise advocated "digital drop-off" schemes, where children and parents were encouraged to bring in electronic devices to be locked in a school safe for the holidays.
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and argues such traditional values "which would once have been completely normal have completely disappeared." She maintains that misguided progressive politics in schools have held ethnic minority and working-class children back from academic success and that the
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seek to address problems within education by pouring more money into schools rather than fixing deeper issues, stating "there is a lot of power in ideas, and if the ideas are wrong, then the education system will not deliver." In an interview with
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While at Oxford, Birbalsingh had visited inner-city schools as part of a scheme the university runs to encourage state-school pupils to apply, and after graduation she decided to teach in state schools herself. From 2007 she wrote an
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culture" in education, arguing that it is more concerned with "making children into revolutionaries" and inserting political bias into classes over instilling values such as kindness, tolerance and hard work. In 2023, the
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as education secretary in 2014—Gove was also a supporter of Hirsch—she said it was a tragedy that his work would not be completed.
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Birbalsingh came to national prominence in October 2010 after criticising the British education system at that year's
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and, after graduating, went into teaching at state schools in south London. She began hosting a blog,
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in his list of the 20 most influential figures in British education, and in 2019 she was awarded the
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for services to education. She was elected as an honorary fellow of New College, Oxford in 2021.
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How progressive ideas are holding back black and working class kids | Katharine Birbalsingh
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descent. She is the elder of two daughters of Frank Birbalsingh, an academic of
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Birbalsingh is a supporter of the traditional teaching methods described in
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her as the 45th most influential right-wing figure in British politics.
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distracts politicians from these issues. In a 2021 debate hosted by the
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Birbalsingh has argued that teenagers should be prevented from having
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Birbalsingh has advocated the singing of patriotic songs such as "
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who "are scared of being called racist" if they discipline them.
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Katharine Birbalsingh (2020) (ed.) John Catt Educational.
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Katharine Birbalsingh (2016) (ed.) John Catt Educational.
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For year of birth, Birbalsingh, Katharine (25 March 2018).
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Birbalsingh grew up mostly in Toronto and was educated at
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until she was 15, when her father began lecturing at the
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Eleanor Busby Education Correspondent (9 January 2020).
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In October 2021 Birbalsingh was appointed Chair of the
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers: The Michaela Way
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers: The Michaela Way
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