To not understand why Katharine Birbalsingh is so controversial

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Just that. Am I being unreasonable in thinking the results she achieves at her school and start in life her students get which they likely otherwise wouldn't - is something to be celebrated and perhaps we should look to what's going wrong in schools which face the the same socioeconomic challenges but get far poorer results. Surely I'm not being unreasonable to wonder this.

No, the FOI request didn’t specify excellent SATs result.

More than half the intake have expected or below expected SATs results.

@noblegiraffe eh?

"We have got KS2 results for 118/130 pupils in this year’s year 7 cohort.
Of those results, 14% (17) are under 100 in English (Reading) and 7% (8)
are under 100 in maths."

cooljerk

You are mistaken in your claims about the SATS results for Michaela entrants. The quote you gave was a response from the West London Free School, not from Michaela. See below.

www.whatdotheyknow.com/search/We%20have%20got%20KS2%20results%20for%20118/130%20pupils%20in%20this%20year%E2%80%99s%20year%207%20cohort.%20Of%20those%20results,%2014%25%20(17)%20are%20under%20100%20in%20English%20(Reading)%20and%207%25%20(8)%20are%20under%20100%20in%20maths./all

Yes, I also see what you mean. How would they get progress 8 scores if the children only take 7. Is it possible that the person compiling the results only took double science to be one?

But the GCSE results based on prior attainment does show:
9 low, 49 middle and 45 high prior attainment. Surely that is quite high for a comprehensive. Would the average not be around around 25, 50, 25%? I have checked a school that is in a genuinely deprived inner city area (SE1) and the numbers are 47, 87, 12 for a cohort of 155.

Universities now look at your top eight subjects
^Given 82% of Michaela kids go to Oxbridge/Russell Group then this is not correct information.

Though the 6th form sounds almost like a separate school with 40 places reserved for external applicants.

It depends on the area though. Here's another non-selective school in the same area (I know nothing about London, it just came up next on the list) https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/138457/wembley-high-technology-college/secondary/results-by-pupil-characteristics?accordionstate=1

It seems to be similarly skewed towards the higher end. Michaela can only accept pupils that apply to it though - their admissions policy certainly isn't selective from their end.

I have 43 years of experience of education.

I did not use the word nobody at all, I used the word notably. This hasn’t stopped you answering something I only said in your imagination so well done have a cookie 🍪

Apologies. I misread.
Everything I said is true though.

She asserts that brown people can’t be English

Where did she say this?

Twitter, of course.

Here

I can see that deskilling of teachers is an unwanted consequence of the Michaela approach.

She sounds very confused about what 'British' and 'English' mean!

It looks like she is saying that English people are white English but people who have perhaps been here for decades/centuries but are not white English could be considered "British".
So my friend who was born in England to Irish parents and has children who were born here, that these children are British but not English.

That tweet deserves a thread of its own.