The discipline debate is far from over but it is open in a way that it hasn’t been in years
discipline is changing in British schools, go to Michaela Community School in north London. Among the first things you see are vast bright billboards. Whereas other schools coax pupils, cosset them with congratulations and avoid marking in red pen lest they sear young souls, Michaela has no truck with such softness. “I am the MASTERBe KIND”, reads another. “Especially”, barks a third, “when it is DIFFICULT”.
Katharine Birbalsingh, are at the centre of an argument over how strict discipline should be in British classrooms. The debate is bitter, has deep roots and is itself strikingly undisciplined: Ms Birbalsingh, an outspoken figure who stepped down as chair of the government’s social-mobility commission this month, has received death threats.
Left-wing sociologists rejoiced at this turn . Traditionalists went into a moral panic. But the old methods weren’t rejected by private schools. Pay enough money and you could continue to have your child caned until 1999. Private schools were seen to stand for odd uniforms, antiquated methods and excellent results; state schools conjured up an image of progressive methods and poor results. The fact that this was a gross over-simplification was irrelevant.
Critics of neo-strictness argue that it leads to the exclusion of children who can’t cope: the exclusion rate for Michaela is comparable to the national average. But, says Ian Patterson, a former head teacher who now advises London academies, chaotic classrooms are “certainly not egalitarian”: kids with settled home lives manage disruption better and disadvantaged ones flounder.
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