Katharine Birbalsingh, the headmistress of one of Britain’s best state schools, has written an excoriating letter to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson after a disappointing meeting where Phillipson exposed her true colours. Published in full in the Spectator, the letter kicks off by noting Michaela’s extraordinary achievements under the freedoms permitted to it as an academy (52% grade 9s across all GCSEs, compared to £60,000-a-year Eton’s 53%) before launching into a devastating rundown of Phillipson’s hypocrisies, Leftist animus towards educational freedom and basic lack of understanding of her own bill. Here’s an excerpt.
You have said that you want to address recruitment. But you are making it harder for schools to hire new staff. There will be fewer maths teachers in our classrooms because of your butchery of the Advanced Maths Support Programme. You are removing schools’ ability to hire teachers without the mountains of bureaucracy that your state-sanctioned, centralised stamping requires.
You are passing a law that we must all follow a brand-new curriculum, before you have even told us what it is. Every teacher knows what this means: more money spent on new resources – such as textbooks – and thousands of man-hours ploughed into a fresh curriculum that hasn’t been finalised and might be changed. Time away from children means time away from raising standards. We tried to explain this, but to no avail.
I believe your lack of clarity and interest unfortunately stems from a deeper problem. It became apparent to me when we met that you do not appear to know your own bill.
When we asked you to explain how the recruitment of new teachers would function, you said that this detail was covered in the bill. When we read to you the relevant extracts from the bill, you said that it would be clarified elsewhere. But when we looked elsewhere, we didn’t find any answers to our questions.
When we asked you to explain how the changes to published admissions numbers would function, again you did not appear to understand. This rule change means that local councils can deliberately reduce the capacity at popular, good schools in order to force families towards less good schools which are undersubscribed. When we asked what you would say to a mother desperate for a place for her child in a successful school, who misses out because the capacity at these institutions has been deliberately reduced, you were unable to answer.
Your party has had 14 years in opposition to prepare for this. You were the Shadow Education Secretary for three years ahead of the election. It should not be left to school leaders to point out the holes in this bill.
So why do all this? Why claim to love academies when you are in fact turning all academies into the equivalent of local authority schools? The reality is that your record in Parliament reveals what you really think of academies, which is that you hate them. You repeatedly voted against academy reforms from 2010 to 2016. You claim to be a great believer in the high standards which academies have brought, but we saw you twist your face with disgust every time you said the word in our meeting, repeating that the worst schools “are, in fact, academies“.
You are pretending to like academies now that you are Education Secretary, because it is hard to openly oppose them in the way that you have done throughout your Parliamentary career, in the face of such obvious success. You don’t want school leaders to have the freedom to innovate and do what is right for their children. You want the state to have control, which is not much of a surprise; I’ve repeatedly pointed out your Marxist leanings. You should stick to your convictions and admit that you do not believe academy freedoms are a good thing and that you believe central Government is the answer. At least that would be honest.
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This is a never ending spiral of evil
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Either way, there is no justification in jabbing children!
As far as I’m aware they have several (at least three) inactivated virus types (‘New Crown’, ‘BBIBP-CorV’, CoronaVac), one protein-based vaccine ZF2001, and one adenovirus viral vector Ad5-nCoV. Others are in trials stages.
any idea of the efficacy of the first 3
Worldwide madness.
A worldwide, evil, plan!
Shhhh… nobody knows – as Hitler mused, ”luckily they’re too stupid”
“The decision has been made in light of China’s zero-tolerance policy towards any further outbreaks”
Sorry, needs fixing
The decision has been made in light of China’s zero-tolerance policy towards anyone remaining unvaxxed, to prevent further outbreaks of anyone believing covid isn’t a deadly pandemic that requires everyone to be vaxxed continuously, forever”
Presumably these poisons are made in China, like face nappies and bogus testing kits?
Or, The decision has been made in light of China’s previous failed attempts to limit the number of children a couple could have.
For those familiar with the Fermi Paradox, the Plandemic is starting to feel more and more to me like The Great Filter. I’m blaming Franklin, Crick and Watson – as soon as we discovered DNA, I think we were doomed as a species.
Or is it the moment that we as a species, billions of individuals, transition into being just one immense global organism made up of billions of cells under the control of a central nervous system etc, an entity that is capable of leaving this planet, ( in some form, like the adult insect is able to fly away from the remains of the food source it consumed as a larva ), and of perceiving other equally vast organisms that we could not see before, as the larval stage of the insect probably cannot imagine let alone actually see the winged adult insects in flight overhead?
The title of this piece should be:
China’s state propaganda machine tells Westerners that they’re now jabbing 3 year old children..
This tells us nothing about who they’re actually vaccinating and in what numbers.
I’ve long suspected that the CCP just makes stuff up completely. I don’t know why anyone believes a word of it. They “claimed” that the Wuhan outbreak was contained despite four million people leaving the province…
Yup – just like those alleged Chinese CCTV videos of people collapsing in public ‘with covid’. Must have been circus performers because they collapsed very convincingly – well enough to panic gullible western politicians.
This ^^^^
Very astute comment!
It only ends when we so no more!
I’ve been saying no more since March 2020
The only reason China is promoting a Vax for 3 year olds is so that the rest of the world will follow its example. However, where the Chinese Sino Vax is traditionally made and contains the dead or inactive virus or portions thereof, it is not an Adeno or Mrna Vax. So while China administers its likely ineffective Vax, it is not potentially exposing its whole population to what may be the disastrous long term consequences of the Adeno or Mrna Vaxes.
The Chinese play Go while the rest of the world play Checkers.
“the Chinese Sino Vax is traditionally made and contains the dead or inactive virus”
A very clever trick for a virus that doesn’t actually exist.
Are they to be vaccinated with the vaccine that is not a vaccine?
Is it true that the injection they’re using over there is more like a traditional vaccine? Not available here? So we have to have a different one?
We can’t let them have a nuclear/mine shaft/jab gap! Quick, rollout to the babies!
Dr Strangelove seemed sane compared to this mess.
https://youtu.be/H3zN4-n8ZWg?t=450
China has employed lockdowns, quarantines and compulsory testing for the virus throughout the pandemic and has largely stamped out cases of local infection
That people still spout this gibberish nearly two years on is staggering.
What is also staggering is that Western liberals suddenly believe everything the Chinese tell them.
You have to have a grudging respect for the Chinese – they have truly fucked the West.
…without firing a shot.
Maybe they have been reading The Art of War.
Look around your home and see how many items you have bought with Made in China stamped on them, or with Made in China labels.
Now think – who has ‘fucked the West’? “But it was cheap!”
Not pointing the finger at you personally, but the shops are filled with plastic crap from China – even the ‘J-cloths’ in our local shop are Made in China – they are crap, which is why I won’t buy them, but many do (and are disappointed).
Even more of the same to come, all linked to the 4th Industrial Revolution:
https://blog.sinorbis.com/made-in-china-2025
Well, yes, indeed. One has to recognise they have played a blinder. As totalitarians go, they are sadly better at it than some of their recent contemporaries like the Soviet Union and the various European fascist/Nazi states. They realise the need for bread and circuses and they deliver it. They will outlast all of us here on this forum I fear.
Can we stop pretending this has anything to do with a virus? They’re injecting children because they want to inject children, and they won’t stop at 3 yr olds either. New-borns are next target.
That epidural they are offering you might contain more than just a nerve block.
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Excellent as usual.
“China has a history of female infanticide spanning 2,000 years”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_infanticide_in_China
‘Vaccinating’ them makes a change from just killing them.
If true hopefully this will lead to the eradication, or at least severe reduction of the chinese population.
Nah: it’s the politicians who need to be terminated (as is true almost everywhere else)!
I think the Chinese are actively trying to increase their population at present. I think I remember reading that, unlike the old days where they limited families to one, then two, they are encouraging parents to have three children.
That was the first thought that crossed my mind when i read the headline.
The Chinese ‘vaccines’ can’t be too bad. They’re going to need those 3 year old’s to be soldiers of the future, to achieve world domination by force or other means.
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Excellent UK Column news today if anyone hasn’t seen it yet https://www.ukcolumn.org/
China can say they are vaccinating which can be true or false, but because China are now saying they are vaccinating infants all the useful idiots elsewhere will demand their own infants are vaccinated. All through this China has driven the response simply by showing dramatic imagery of lockdowns and people falling down ‘dead’ and then saying ‘success’. Last year a Chinese doctor shared a conference with Dr ‘Gain of Function’ Fauci, in China and warned countries not to open up until everyone has been vaccinated, which may take until 2023. This doctor went on to say natural immunity won’t work because it is unscientific and inhuman. For context, China is the country where the Tiananmen Square massacre took place, where the Uyghurs are being persecuted.
So – sacrifice the children for the sake of the world’s perception of the Olympics. Sick. Though I daresay this might just be what they’re SAYING and not DOING – why would they waste money on peasants, after all?