Is this the mother of all calling out - Katherine Birbalsingh

[DramaFatigue]

Katherine Birbalsingh has done the mother of all calling out and I can't help but sit here with my jaw on the kitchen table in awe.

She has written a 4-page open letter to Sir Kerr Starmer calling out Jess Phillip's behaviour online. Whilst I don't always agree with KB's methods of the school she runs, I do think that Jess Phillips behaviour towards her is shocking and unbefitting of someone who could be running the country. JP should resign TBH.

https://news.sky.com/story/headteacher-katharine-birbalsingh-brands-labour-mp-jess-phillips-social-media-posts-racist-and-bullying-12913139

Why react to it at all?

Looking at the link in the op

‘said she inadvertently tweeted a picture of Tina Turner alongside her abusive former husband Ike Turner amid tributes to the late star.’

What does it achieve than make someone feel bad about an image, which sounds like it should have been cropped

It’s not really in an MPs remit to hold HT to account for a misadvised Twitter pic

Twitter may have its benefits but I can’t say I’m seeing them in evidence here

No she didn’t. She kept maintaining it had been a gif, when it clearly wasn’t. The letter contains several ‘inaccuracies’ including not appearing to know who Aslan is (and that tweet was from 2018 anyway). It’s all nonsense.

@SunnyEgg You might want to have a look at the facts and the timeline before you comment- it is not as you represent it.

I don’t think I can without an account

Do you mean KB directly addressed Phillips first? To say what?

Or did KB put up an image then many responded including JP

What is the timeline in your view?

I kind of assumed she'd end up in the House of Lords

I kind of assumed she'd end up in the House of Lords

It's very possible. They could both end up there. That could be a lot of fun.

I have never wanted it to be abolished more ;)

KB practically defines DARVO!!

As a former teacher I would far rather have taught in KB’s school than an establishment where I was sworn and threatened every five minutes. As for Send pupils, many thrive with very clear rules and a calm atmosphere. I hated Ofsted but to achieve “outstanding” doesn’t mean everything but it means that the school has good safeguarding in place.

"Imagine lying and falsely accusing someone of racism because you can't read, and then doubling down and continuing to play the victim."

Not if the first time you disagreed with something or failed to have the correct expression on your face, perhaps because you were having a particularly unpleasant period or back pain, your employer didn't listen our read your email properly and instigated dismissal proceedings on the grounds you were a racist attacking her for her ethnicity, though, would you?

That's the danger with someone like this - they can misinterpret anything and go straight on the attack, even when it's right in front of them and everybody else that it didn't happen.

Has KB done this? Does she have a high staff turnover?

@Kiwano No. The information on JP and Diane Abbott is out there and available for all to see and read. I stopped doing the 'research' for white people years ago. In part because the script will follow one of two paths. Both paths, however, include a lot of denial, minimising and meandering. It's exhausting to say the least. It's quite easy these days to accept 'defeat' with another tired and worn out trope about 'being too lazy' to substantiate 'made up' claims, which you demonstrate perfectly in your post. I've done this dance both IRL and online more times than I care to count. Enjoy your evening.

I would think it would take a particular person to work at that school.

7 am SLT meeting on a Monday.

And if her twitter persona is anything like her real persona, she seems confident in her opinions, wants to only hear views that reflect her views and does not like people pointing out mistakes she has made.

Which would be a difficult person to work for.

KB put up the image of a wife beater heading it ‘Good Times’.

JP commented on it by retweeting it. She has strong links with DV charities and campaigning.

But you know this.

She has also misread a tweet from a screenshot she got and used that tweet as an accusation. After this was pointed out to her, she said she needed glasses.

She claimed that there was a mistake with the image.

She claimed that JP just commented on her appearance at the conference - which is not true.

She got the time line wrong and claimed that screenshots show the time of the screenshot - which was shown to be a lie.

People who point out her errors get called racist.

Not exactly the conduct you expect from a Head Teacher.

Well no but she had a strop when it was pointed out that the Churchill quote painted on the school wall was wrong.

Her attention to detail is generally poor.

Of course I don’t. Why are you feeling so assured on what others know?

‘Good times’ is not in the op’s link.

So you’ve spent all this time on the thread and you don’t actually know what happened?

Maybe you should read the thread

It has updates during the day as KB was tweeting furiously yesterday - and backtracking as her "mistakes" were pointed out.

People clearly follow KB much more closely than I ever have

I’m going by what is on mn and this thread

She seems to get into people’s heads for various reasons but not everyone is that aware of Twitter personalities.

She is a prominent Head Teacher who was the Governments social mobility tsar- I am not sure what example she is setting her pupils by the mistakes she made in her open letter.

And accusing a prominent MP of racism in an open letter - and then calling people racist when they point out the inaccuracies in her letter is not a good look for a Head Teacher.

As I said there’s a link in the op.

I read it and quoted it. I don’t have to spend time on another platform even if it leaves out a few words

It’s not that riveting. I don’t know how people can get so involved in Twitter spats to the extent they do

You’re all here to fill those of us in who don’t bother with it anyway

This is her tweet. It’s been retweeted by Janey Godley as you will see.

JG has 300,000 followers but hasn’t been accused by KB of inciting racial hatred.

JP’s tweet was later. But she’s accused of causing the pile-on.

It’s all bollocks.

20 posts on something you’re not interested in?