Katharine Birbalsingh on her critics...guess who they might be?

Katharine Birbalsingh's To Miss With Love has arrived and I've started reading it. It read immediately less vividly than her blog, which had the directness of something that happened yesterday, as most of it in fact had. It seems from her account, here, that the problem is that the truth is likely to be actionable, and Penguin, no doubt sensibly, were afraid of being sued. The book is still interesting, still true at heart, but the immediate, pin sharp focus has been dulled by these effects of political correctness. And of course her critics are now saying that she's written a work of fiction because she's disguised children's identities - one of them is even citing an ofsted report on a school she taught in as evidence that it was a good school. A pity that Ofsted reports since 2005, or at least between 2005 and 2010, were based on so little evidence that they were mostly written before the inspectors arrived in school.