Katharine Birbalsingh’s rule about punctuality managed to make Nick Ferrari look like the voice of reason
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I manage employees.
If a single one of mine wasted my time by rocking up early, I would be having long chats with them.
You're responsible for managing your own time – and that means not fucking wasting it. She really hasn't got a clue…why do people praise her?
— Mizuxel (@mizuxel) March 16, 2025
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Much wrong with this person's view of resilience. A child waiting outside in freezing cold weather before the gates open, trying to avoid hypothermia so that they can deal with multiple job rejections ten years later is not resilience. It's a job for school inspectors and police.
— Amjad Khan (@SmartCircleComm) March 16, 2025
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Good lord. Children should arrive so early they have to wait outside the gates until they open, with no parents or member of staff present? Has she never heard of safeguarding? https://t.co/7EaXoDTQfy
— Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola (@Frances_Coppola) March 16, 2025
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She’s a total narcissist.
— Ronan McGreevy (@RMcGreevy1301) March 16, 2025
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Yes personal responsibility is important.
But so too is risk management. And pragmatism. And composure when things go wrong.
You don’t want a generation of neurotic individuals who arrive 2 hours early because of unlikely events.
This is not a rounded approach. https://t.co/lpPlnbI2FK
— Andrew (@Jonesy_Bones) March 16, 2025
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In years to come, adults will access therapy to unpick the harm Birbalsingh has caused to the pupils at her school. She is the epitome of the nasty & feared Head Teacher/Principal. Really nasty person. https://t.co/JPq9Bv7gF7
— YOLO (@nina_mrs_mummy) March 16, 2025
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Life doesn’t work like that. Flexibility will get you a long way
— Sian Harries – @sianharries.bsky.social (@sianharries_) March 15, 2025
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the state of this nutter managing to make Nick Ferrari sound reasonably sane https://t.co/hoNqZA3HPk pic.twitter.com/jINnzXB97X
— Vinnie Jackson (@Faudaville) March 16, 2025
We can’t imagine Nick Ferrari going for this.
Are there no other headteachers available to interview, you know like the normal , hardworking ones that actually like children ? https://t.co/oqhmF0uEuO
— Tanita Tikaram (@tanita_tikaram) March 16, 2025
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