Bexhill College

I’ve been working for various schools and colleges in UK and abroad for over 15 years and I’ve never experienced such poor management as I did from the Director of Sport at Bexhill College. From day one, staff spoke behind my Director of Sport’s back about how unprofessional her management style was - but I remained undeterred. My mother worked at the college for 20 years, teaching childcare and also warned me about the way management there treats its staff, but I decided to go in with fresh eyes.

I was drawn into an unscheduled meeting and experienced several false accusations for minor issues – such as leaving a set of lights on. I denied them and no proof was ever given. However, on this basis, I was fired from my full-time job a week before my wife and I had our first child – without any formal warning.  I still don’t know what her true motive was.  For me personally, it was by far the worst working environment I’ve experienced over the last two decades. I would say, if you’re looking at an educational setting within East Sussex, you’ll be much better off at any other college or school in the area, one that shows professionalism, respect and care towards their staff. For me, the Director of Sport at Bexhill College showed the first clear example of how an educational environment shouldn’t be operated.

My daughter is being very poorly treated there. Over a week since a formal complaint now and still no resolution and in fact the department in question has ramped up sanctions against her. She is being excluded from lessons for no reason whatsoever, yet no excluded from college. She has to complete her work sitting on her own in isolation and despite doing a practical subject is currently not even allowed into the department that lessons take place. One tutor took offence to her and gradually one by one the whole department have been told that they cannot talk to her. She is very distressed by the whole situation, yet continues to go in as she feels it is important that others are not treated the same way. Unfortunately you are not allowed to criticise members of staff even if they do their job poorly and other people also have complaints against them.