Bedford Free School

This school will break you if you have mental obstacles that make learning challenging. Students are shamed for struggling with their studies, and oftentimes feel humiliated by their own teachers for needing extra help. This of course leads to students avoiding help, which then leads to low scores, which THEN leads to detention. Forcing kids to stay afterhours and do nothing productive is not going to guide them to success. As a teacher, your job is to provide a safe space for your students to ask for support without being judged or made to feel guilty. That includes scheduling extra time to assist students outside of school hours, rather than punishing them with detention.

Another huge issue is the bullying, and the way the staff handles it. More accurately, the way they DON'T handle it. My youngest sibling attends this school and has been treated inhumanely by classmates and staff alike. They have lost all that was left of their self confidence and motivation, developing suicidal ideations. Kids in their class constantly bully and harass them about their looks among other childish things, and teachers watch this happen with nothing to offer but a demand for silence. Outside of the classroom door, they couldn't care less about the horrendous things those kids put my sibling through. They've watched them cry and made them feel ashamed for it. If my sibling is punished by their teachers for needing a little extra guidance with schoolwork, why don't the students making their life a living hell get the same treatment? Preferably, WORSE treatment.

If no changes are made, and one day I receive a call that my sibling has succumbed to suicide, I promise you won't hear the end of it from me.
DO BETTER.

This school is terrible there’s so much wrong with all the teachers and how they treat students and how students treat there peers as well many teachers are racist and horrible. The treatment of people is disgusting and this school is a prison and hell on earth. This school destroys students mental health and the teachers bully the students and even though the headteacher and other staff are aware they still do nothing and do not help at all. I strongly advise to not send your kids to this school as it is terrible and you will regret it deeply.

Really bad you can’t talk in the corridor an you get detention easily

the school is racist atheist excluded a student for wearing her hijab i and classified it for being “unprofessional” and also expelled a young black man for having his hair “too short”

Almost everyone who has left this school suffers from severe mental health and struggle in social settings, comparing to other people their age. Little priority is placed on communication and social development, such as no talking when passing to your next class and keeping silent even when you are in class, otherwise you will receive a detention.

The teachers can be incredibly nasty and know they will get away with it due to the ‘staff are always right’ rule. If they don’t like your child, believe me they will let it be known and get other teachers involved in making your child feel miserable about themselves.

To make matters worse, teachers are very harsh on students over silly things, such as getting punished for asking someone for a tissue because of the no talking rule. I remember someone even getting a detention for saying bless you when someone sneezed once because of this terrible rule.

This school only provides opportunities to people whose parents are in close contact with the higher up staff but everyone else is ignored. Everything is a front at this school, one image towards visitors and prospective student but another one to the actual pupils and their parents.