The Labour government’s education reform proposals are disastrous for children, warns headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh.

She’s known as Britain’s toughest headteacher. But her tough stance is having results: The school she leads, Michaela Community School, is one of the most successful schools in England.

Document has written about the strict headteacher before, when she was sued by a Muslim pupil for banning prayer at the state school in Wembley, London. It turned out that the Muslim girl who sued her had been suspended from the school for five days for threatening to attack another pupil with a knife.

Pupil suing headteacher over prayer ban threatened to stab a girl

Now headteacher Birbalsingh is attacking education minister Bridget Phillipson for being “blinded by a Marxist ideology”, saying her planned school reforms risk devastating poor children, writes The Times.

She believes the reforms will restrict schools’ freedom over pay, uniforms, teacher recruitment and curriculum.

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which is making its way through parliament, would introduce the same level of pay in all state schools, ensure that everyone follows the national curriculum, mandate that schools only employ qualified teachers or teachers working towards becoming qualified, and limit the number of uniforms to three brands.

In The Spectator, the stern headteacher writes an open letter to the education minister.

I am worried that your time as minister will undo the huge progress made over the last decade and a half to help disadvantaged children across England.

I don’t know whether you are ideologically blind and therefore ignoring the obvious negative consequences of your decisions – or whether you just don’t understand the damage your changes will cause.

Birbalsingh can’t understand why a Labour government would make it harder for students from poor backgrounds to compete with rich students attending private schools like Eton. Nor does she understand what problems the school reform will solve in practice.

Labour wants control over what pupils learn in all schools. This opens up terrible opportunities for state-controlled indoctrination, something Norwegian schools are already plagued by.

Document wrote about the plans just before the New Year.

The Department for Education (DfE) bluntly states that the aim is a curriculum that reflects “the diversity of our society” and helps to create young people who “value the diversity” of the UK.

This includes decolonising various subjects that are considered to be monocultural. One example is literature, which according to the Labour government has been overly focused on British literature. Shakespeare? Too British, lets drop him.

There will also be a focus on race, in something suspiciously reminiscent of critical race theory. The heroic principal says thanks, but no thanks.

It’s clear that there needs to be a broad academic core for all children. But a rigid national curriculum that dictates adherence to a robotic, repetitive and monotonous learning programme that prevents headteachers from providing their children with a bespoke offer tailored to their pupils’ needs is simply appalling.

Any teacher who has an entrepreneurial spirit, who likes to think creatively about how best to meet the needs of their students, will be driven out of the profession. Not to mention how standards will plummet! High standards are partly dependent on teacher dynamism. Why do you want to kill our creativity?

In Norway, the Education Act states that students have all the rights, but no obligations. Good luck in your working life with such attitudes, is my immediate thought when I hear something so brainless.

Several people who work for the public school system have expressed to me personally that they share my attitude, but of course they have to shut up or risk losing their jobs.</p

Violence against teachers and other employees has reached a terrifyingly high level, and one can only imagine what is happening to students during recess. It is no longer the state, but the mob that has a monopoly on violence.

Even in peaceful Hinna in Stavanger, the richest part of Norway, parents had to guard the school road for several months when some youngsters had a hobby of beating up 6-7-year-old pupils on the school road. Some pupils were beaten up on their way to and on the way back from school on the same day.

Everyone knew who these scumbags were. But the police did nothing, the violent bullies were neither arrested nor put in prison. A little mini version of the grooming scandal in England.

A strict headmaster is exactly what both Norwegian and British schools need. But this doesn’t fit into the programme for either Labour or Labour, who would rather create losers that they can then demand we all feel sorry for.

Of course, we can feel sorry for the losers. But we know who has ruined their lives. Many of us have little sympathy for those behind the disaster. In any case, they won’t get my vote in the Norwegian election in September.