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What Katharine Birbalsingh gets wrong about secularism

22 January 2024

6:03 PM

22 January 2024

6:03 PM

Katharine Birbalsingh is back in the papers again. The head teacher at Michaela, a free school whose outstanding academic record and ultra-strict behaviour policy have made it a culture-wars lightning rod, tells the Sunday Times that she and her staff have been getting death threats ever since her board of governors imposed a policy banning any form of prayer on school grounds.

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