Britain’s strictest headmistress

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Just watched it after recommended by my HOD. What were your thoughts on this show?

I just watched it today.

Have been a big fan of Katharine Birbalsingh in the past and have her book. Agree with a lot of her principals in theory. It's basically a tough love approach.

Watched with dd1 (13). We loved the fact that the students seemed focussed and engaged in the classroom.

We didn't like the way they had to walk the corridors in silence and the appreciation clapping was too much imho. She hated the bit where the teachers sit with the students to eat at lunch time!

What did you think OP?

I absolutely loved it. It’s exactly how schooling was for me and exactly how I think school should be. I fully agree the clapping was too much also the parenting classes.

Birbalsingh was great too. She definitely shows that making a fuss over the small things stops the bigger things from happening.

We have a ht who babies the students and this leads to kids telling us to eff off etc as they know they’ll get away with it again. I really think tough love makes things better.

I can see some benefit in the parenting talk. Ime, half the battle is getting the parents on board!

I just worry that the children are being a bit too repressed with no room for freedom of expression at Michaela. But I also agree that children's rights have gone too far the other way now, adult authority, in particular teachers', has been pretty much eroded over time. The nurturing approach that I constantly get told we should be using is not really working inho!