The bigotry of low expectations. There should be one standard for all.
‘Too often schools make excuses for students.’ NO, ‘Too often parents raise a ruckus when students are expected to do anything.’ Oh, and this school has strict discipline which they can ENFORCE? I bet they can kick students out if they want.
And that, my friends, is the difference.
Interesting. It appears to be the British equivalent of a charter school. Plenty of experiments in the U.S. - private, charters, and regular public schools - have shown that “underprivileged” students can get excellent results in schools with strict standards and traditional instruction.
Why this would be shocking, I do not know. Adults all over the world know that they learned to read, write, compute, and act like civilized people in schools with strict behavior standards and traditional instruction!