Girls and Physics. It's too hard for them. ?

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^Far more important to know every child's strengths and weaknesses and work on those.^

And I gather on this score she is one of the Best and that the school of which she is headmistress is having astounding success in educating disadvantaged children.

She has good PR and Conservative Party supporters. It would be interesting to know by what criteria she's considered "one of the Best". The children her school admits (and keeps) aren't so disadvantaged as she claims.

Blimey!

*contextual

Thanks for the contextuakl additions as well, joseanne. Context always matters.

Far more important to know every child's strengths and weaknesses and work on those.

And I gather on this score she is one of the Best and that the school of which she is headmistress is having astounding success in educating disadvantaged children.

She's right. What's wrong with not doing the subject because they dislike it or find it hard? After GCSE pupils should choose the subjects they enjoy without feeling pressured.
I don't believe she doesn't know "how big a number 83 million is". She didn't say that. She was talking about the number of followers someone has on twitter and said, "I am not even sure what a number that big means…"in terms of whether the person is popular or not. The comment was made 2 days before the Physics/Maths one.
And just because she is a school Headmistress why would she know every subject inside out? Far more important to know every child's strengths and weaknesses and work on those.

This, of course, is tosh and should be dismissed as such. I say that as someone with a niece-in-law who is an astrophysicist, as is her husband.

However, there is a well-documented general tendency for women to choose more people-centred subjects of study.

That's about it really. I doubt Mrs Birbalsingh meant what she said literally. She is not a stupid woman. 83 million is actually quite hard to imagine. << for that bit I speak as someone who at one time loved transcendental numbers. Well, I still do but it'd take me longer nowadays to get my head round them as I haven't been practising the lingo for a while.