So the Deputy Head who wowed the Conservative Party Conference has been suspended for 'telling it how it is'. Well, 'sent home' actually, which is some clever pseudo-legal way of avoiding immediate suspension while the (Executive) Head Teacher and Governing Body of the St Michael and All Angels Academy in Camberwell decide how to deal with having a Conservative-supporting deputy headteacher in their midst.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1318685/Deputy-head-dared-attack-State-school-sent-home.html#ixzz11jxDotMz
Katharine Birbalsingh has been running a blog for a long time which I have followed with interest. A more caring, compassionate teacher would appear to be hard to find.
Her speech is on the IPlayer 1:17 in
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00v7ss6/Conservative_Party_Conference_2010_05_10_2010/
She has now been forced to take down her blog.
Here's a link so you can see what you have missed :-
http://web.archive.org/web/20080525134912/tomisswithlove.blogspot.com/2008/05/leaders.html
(What a shame she does not work for KCC where all the schools are superb, the senior management excellent and all pupils above average. Just though I'd get that in. One can't be too careful nowadays!!)
