Panorama - Britain's Strictest Schools - 8pm Monday 3/8/26 - BBC1

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Thought this might be of interest

I will watch this, sounds interesting! Intrigued to see if they are private schools or not.

Oooh I shall watch. Thank you OP.

It says

Britain’s Strictest Schools
Panorama

When running a big school, how much discipline is too much? Richard Bilton reports from an academy trust whose stakeholders say its strict policies on behaviour have gone too far.

I wonder if it's the same school in London there was a thread about, with parents saying it was too strict. Trying to remember the name.

This one
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyvlj1zel0o

I assume Katherine Burbalsingh will be featured. I remember one parent took her to court because she disagreed with one aspect of the school, whilst simultaneously applying for a place for another of her children

I believe it features a school in Launceston Cornwall

Must be hard finding the balance. If a school isn't strict enough, some kids will take full advantage and bully and be disruptive, which is harmful too.

It could be the Launceston one. The Trust is now possibly being dissolved

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgje8d1p419o I suspect it is launceston. There's being strict and then theres just being controlling. Even the teachers said it was oppressing.

Watching it now.

I found this so sad. You could tell that some of the children will have done well at the exams but hated it. There’s discipline and then this type of thing.

I can see it as a hard balance with teachers leaving the profession due to bad behaviour in schools, but quite a few of the teachers had left. There’s discipline music class was the strangest to me, silence?

Looked like a lovely place. Seems like they did go too far with the regimented discipline. I think my kids' school got it right. It was a Comp that let anyone in. They did have detentions/isolation/suspension etc, but not all the stuff about fixed eyes and not moving a pencil etc, so most could avoid sanctions for years on end as long as they did homework and weren't disruptive.

Yes, the fact that the teachers were finding it too oppressive said it all really.