"This is a civilisational failure!" – Britain's Strictest Headmistress Katharine Birbalsingh [ARC26] Alliance for Responsible Citizenship and Strictly Education with Katharine Birbalsingh .....////// Okay this lady is head of a large secondary school, not far from from me, in Wembley, North London. The school, interestingly is called Michaela. So I often pass it, but don't know much about it. My neighbour's daughter works there, and we sometimes chat about the school, I am interested... the head does not allow prayers rooms for any religion. In a heavily populated area where religions are people's identity, she maintains strict policy to not let that (religion) affect, intimidate or engineer ideology that takes away from someone's education or chances in life. A very strict school, which would probably be considered the norm, back in the day, And it is heavily subscribed with long waiting lists, from London populations, which are, lets face it are top heavy with muslim family candidates...but the fact is, the school is a major Non Faith-school success story for the normal London kid.... Me, I went to a catholic faith school, which, back in the day, was considered strict and which immigrants wanted their children to attend, because THESE schools were VERY different the English secondary schools of the day ( Faith schools then would be equivalent to the normal grammar schools non-faith schools of the day- )...so bit by bit, there was fusion and immigrant parents (many non-catholic) but either of a Christian style faith, or just of a tiger parenting style (e.g. China, Nigeria) were happy to achieve attendance at these faith schools for their child....Certain social engineering and lifestyle nuances, for various reasons, believed in the strictness of a school set within the chaos of a multicultural London, or the diverse social spider web that London has landed itself in. I am posting this speech because I was amazed at the almost brutal honesty that we see here, in direct contrast and opposition to the social engineering of 'Wokeness' from top-down ideology, that is infiltrating our school systems and that is blinkering our students from challenging their own thought processes and producing the 'educated' children and students that will be citizens of the future....The oldies but goldies of now, are few. Most of our old ones have been carted off in 'dementia' mobiles to care homes, to be cared for and removed from the carefully curated, socially acceptable areas where NO one is old enough to remember the times before "wokeness"...Michaela.