According to the Government’s Social Mobility Chief, children must continue receiving formal lessons from their parents after they return home from school. This is because it’s impossible to assume that they’re being taught well.

Katharine Birbalsingh, 49, who is head of the school dubbed ‘the strictest in Britain’ and was made chairwoman of the Government’s Social Mobility Commission in October, told parents on Twitter they’re ‘getting lucky’ if their children are receiving an adequate education in UK schools.

According to the controversial head, parents should teach their children after school every day throughout school. They just aren’t telling you.’

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Katharine Birbalsingh, who founded the Michaela Community School in Wembley in 2014, which Ofsted has rated 'Outstanding', is known for her tough stance on discipline. This week, she told her followers on Twitter that parents should teach their children lessons 'daily' and 'always' at home after the school day ends

Katharine Birbalsingh founded Michaela Community School, Wembley in 2014. Ofsted rated it ‘Outstanding.’ She is also known for her hardline approach to discipline. She told Twitter followers this week that she believes parents must teach their children lessons both ‘daily and ‘always,’ after school ends.

Michaela Community School, Wembley’s headteacher, said to her 91,500 fans: “Parents!” There has never been a more perfect time to help your children at home. 

‘Don’t assume they are being taught well at school. You might get lucky. Great! But don’t assume it.’ 

Continued she: “Teach them after they go to school.” Daily. Always. Parents do. They just aren’t telling you.’ 

Many agreed with the comments of Ms Birbalsingh, but others wondered if children “can be children” if they are expected to keep studying at home. 

Teacher @jennie_priest responded, saying: ‘What?! They don’t. My children are not taught at home by me, as I’m a teacher. There is no time. We have lessons in piano, rugby training and other activities. Talking together is fun. We watch TV and eat together ….. But I do not formally instruct them.

Many were concerned by Ms Birbalsingh’s low view of the UK education system. @Alienwife99 wrote: “You might get lucky”. That’s your take on the teaching profession. That children are “lucky” if they get a good teacher. Who are they going to help?

But many parents confessed that they had taught their children once they returned from school so they could continue to learn.   

The Government's Social Mobility chief, dubbed a 'tiger head' for her strict approach, wrote that many parents are already teaching their children at home but said 'they just aren’t telling you'

The Government’s Social Mobility chief, dubbed a ‘tiger head’ for her strict approach, wrote that many parents are already teaching their children at home but said ‘they just aren’t telling you’

@AlexShrop wrote: ‘Couldn’t agree more. Because my wife and I raised our children by reflecting back on our childhoods, learning from mistakes made and learning as they go along, my kids are never bored. 

The trick is to teach clear values, structure, and boundaries.  

@MrsHRCrowther another teacher said her daughter, who is just a year old, would feel ‘lost without a work schedule at home. 

Her letter stated that she was a teacher with a schedule of homework for her Y3 daughter. She needs to consolidate maths and reading. Our Brownies include swimming, ballet, and telly. She would be even more confused if she didn’t have to do everything I do. Consider it a debt to her.  

Ms. Birbalsingh is well-known for her strict approach to disciplining the Wembley School she founded nearly eight years ago. 

The Children’s Museum Students at Michaela Community School, Brent in North London are taught how to properly sit on a stool.

Birbalsingh established the school in 2014. The students learn how to get to the lessons in a single file, how to focus on the teacher, and how to behave in the classroom.

‘Follow instructions and listen in silence’: Tough rules that have seen the Michaela School win OFSTED  ‘outstanding’

  • Follow the directions exactly as they were given.
  • Wear the right uniform, dress smartly and leave electronics, food and gum at home. 
  • Use the appropriate volume
  • You can sit silently and still in the appropriate place, except if you have been given permission to do so.
  • Shoes for school should be flat, black and free of logos. Shoes with logos or boots, trainers, and suede are prohibited at school. Shoes that look trainer-like are also not permitted. The same applies to brand shoes.
  • The hair will remain in the traditional style. Styles that are longer than normal and do not touch the collar must be professional.
  • Students who have a pattern cut into their eyebrows will be expelled from school. Or the school will demand that the whole eyebrow be shaved.
  • No make-up is allowed for pupils in Years 7-11
  • It is also against the law to use nail varnishes of any kind, nail extensions or henna decorations.
  • There is no jewelry except for plain, functional watches
  • Michaela doesn’t have a private prayer room

 

Ms Birbalsingh has been praised by Minister for Women & Equalities Liz Truss for maintaining ‘high standards’. 

When the head was made chairwoman of the Government’s Social Mobility Commission, she said she would use her new position to develop a society that ‘provides an equal chance for all’. 

At the October appointment, she told GB News: ‘The Chair of the Social Mobility Commission was meant to assist the Government in enabling it to so that everybody has the opportunity to make their own decisions.

‘I’m particularly interested in family, school and roots into the workplace, although obviously I’ll be interested in building a body of evidence and listening to other people’s ideas in terms of what we ought to concentrate on.

‘But those three for me – family, school and roots into the workplace – I think are key when trying to enable social mobility

‘Doing that means making it so that the accident of your birth does not mean that you are unable to pursue whatever it is you want to do with your life.’

Ms Birbalsingh explained to Tory party delegates in 2010 that the educational standards were’so dumbed-down that even the teachers understand it’, and that there are too many requirements that restrict schools from being able to teach properly.

With her success, she credits her dad who had an ‘old-fashioned British education’ in British Guyana.

She has since protested against the teaching of ‘white privilege’ in schools, saying that it makes black British kids feel like society and the education system are against them.

In June she stated that teachers should not talk about students’ race and instead focus on teaching them English and maths.

Ms Birbalsingh explained that success in life for children of all colors is dependent on having a supportive family who will help them with their studies, do their homework, and force them to ‘get off their phones.

Ms Birbalsingh took aim at “woke culture” earlier this year for’mercilessly attacking black conservatives who dare to think for their own sake’.

Ms Birbalsingh took aim at Tony Sewell as chairman of the Abuse of Race Report. She accused “leftists” of creating their own culture of racism by trying to suppress opposing viewpoints.