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City of London Academy Highbury Grove
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Dont go highbury grove guys
Highbury grove is officially the worst school ever. Even worse then highbury fields. Thats how bad it is. They don't care about their students whatsoever and is very dangerous. The teachers are extremely rude and unfair. I would recommend you don't send your child here because highbury grove is overall one of the worst schools i hav ever seen.
WHAT KIND OF SCHOOL IS THiS
I would rate the school 2 stars because I feel like some teachers can become a bit aggressive towards students when they get yelled at when it was actually someone else so I basically don’t think students can be heard properly because when a student’s trying to explain to the teacher,teachers either interrupt them or they give them a straight detention.
Secondly, at the begging of year 7, me and my group of friends were getting bullied everyday so we finally decided to go and tell one of the teachers that work for safe guarding and so when we explained what happened to them they said they would go talk to the person that was bullying us.A few days passed and the bullying still carried on and so I went to tell the teacher again and also ask them if they had spoken to the bully and they said no not yet and they would pull us all out of class to discuss everything in front of each other.well guess what THEY NEVER showed UP.so eventually we sorted out the situation but still WHAt WAS SOO MUCH WORSE THAN BULLYING?? That they couldn’t sort out the problem sooner.so what I’m basically saying is that they don’t sort out any of your problems until weeks later 😓
Lastly, I do think some teachers aren’t that bad and just want us to succeed in life,but other teachers like putting everyone’s day down and ruins everyone’s mood.
I feel like some teachers and staff need to understand that everyone has a different way of learning and not everyone is perfect.I also don’t think they should be using aggressive language towards us. Once in one lesson we were literally called morons to our faces.
In conclusion, I would recommend this school to you if you want to get yelled at every five seconds and have teachers put you down.
Secondly, at the begging of year 7, me and my group of friends were getting bullied everyday so we finally decided to go and tell one of the teachers that work for safe guarding and so when we explained what happened to them they said they would go talk to the person that was bullying us.A few days passed and the bullying still carried on and so I went to tell the teacher again and also ask them if they had spoken to the bully and they said no not yet and they would pull us all out of class to discuss everything in front of each other.well guess what THEY NEVER showed UP.so eventually we sorted out the situation but still WHAt WAS SOO MUCH WORSE THAN BULLYING?? That they couldn’t sort out the problem sooner.so what I’m basically saying is that they don’t sort out any of your problems until weeks later 😓
Lastly, I do think some teachers aren’t that bad and just want us to succeed in life,but other teachers like putting everyone’s day down and ruins everyone’s mood.
I feel like some teachers and staff need to understand that everyone has a different way of learning and not everyone is perfect.I also don’t think they should be using aggressive language towards us. Once in one lesson we were literally called morons to our faces.
In conclusion, I would recommend this school to you if you want to get yelled at every five seconds and have teachers put you down.
REASON WHY YOU SHOULD NOT JOIN THIS SCHOOL
As a year 7 student do not sign your kids up to this school,unless you want them to come home thinking that they are not good enough or need to do more too fit in with other kids or make the teachers happy.They pressure kids too much,expecting them to do more than they are supposed to do .The staff there are horrible,when it comes to meeting parents they switch their moods and attitudes and mix things up of why they act or behave like that(if they mentioned it).IF a child get PARKED(parked means getting kicked out of class) they will be in isolation for the full day (new rule).I don't know if that's a good thing but if it is then it should be a half day.Full day for getting kicked out from one class doing too much what a joke.So if you want your kids to be miserable for 5/4 yrs then this is the right school for them.
Horrible school not gonna lie.
Okay first of all the school doesn't do SHIT about the bullying.
Period.
Period.
How Bad Is Highbury Grove
Hello, I Do Not recommend you to come to this school because the teachers are very bad and there are fights every single day and let me tell you something that happened to me today so i was in music class then i did a little cough then i got a 1 hour detention.
Sexual assault + other sorts of abuse.
I suffered sexual assault when I was in year 7 from someone who was a couple years older. I am in year 11 now. But when I reported it in the library to a former teacher named ******** who was also a music teacher he said he didn’t work here and that he couldn’t do anything. He lied. He continued to work here for several years.
I was 11, new and destroyed. This teacher left 1-2 years ago and honestly I’m happy about it. I wish I could take my innocence back
I was also taken out of lesson in year 7 once where the SLT members (Not sure what they stood for but thats the name) forced me to take off my shirt in the changing rooms so they could examine the “bruises” on my body since apparently someone told them I was being “bullied”. I did have troubles in year 7 but I told them I wasn’t comfortable about taking off my shirt in front of them and they didn’t let me leave till I did.
I have many more stories but this should be enough to convince you to NOT send your child off to this school. I’m in my final year and I can’t wait to run away from here. Save your kids mental health and send them somewhere better.
Thank you for reading
I was 11, new and destroyed. This teacher left 1-2 years ago and honestly I’m happy about it. I wish I could take my innocence back
I was also taken out of lesson in year 7 once where the SLT members (Not sure what they stood for but thats the name) forced me to take off my shirt in the changing rooms so they could examine the “bruises” on my body since apparently someone told them I was being “bullied”. I did have troubles in year 7 but I told them I wasn’t comfortable about taking off my shirt in front of them and they didn’t let me leave till I did.
I have many more stories but this should be enough to convince you to NOT send your child off to this school. I’m in my final year and I can’t wait to run away from here. Save your kids mental health and send them somewhere better.
Thank you for reading
DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD TO THIS SCHOOL
Boys grabbed me and slapped my behind continuously even after I gave them a dirty look. Reported it, had to keep asking about the progress of it only to be told after about a week that they “can’t do anything without video evidence”. And this isn’t the only time they ignored my/anyone else's allegations. I called the school out on twitter later on after I left, and they blocked me because I was telling the truth. They lie and promise students and their parents a safe educational environment but yet for the longest time I was made to feel like what happened to me and my friends didn’t even matter. I would complain about them doing nothing about the issue then I would get shouted at and told “complaining about it isn’t going to make anything happen”. They were so quick to punish students with dyed hair or an untucked shirt with detention, isolation, exclusion; essentially missing out on what they love to say is ‘important education’, ‘your future’, over things that ACTUALLY don’t matter. But when their students feel unsafe because of their own classmates, they’re told the school can’t do anything because apparently we should’ve recorded it. And it wasn’t just students this would happen to! Several TEACHERS have reported sexual harassment, homophobia, sexism etc. but we all know where those reports they would make you fill in went. In the bin.
Shit school
Horrible school they don’t deal with anything that goes on if your getting bullied they don’t do anything no kid should have to deal with going to that school
a horrible school that needs to be closed.
- allowed sexual assault to take place - told victims “there is no video evidence” and ignored reports
- allowed bullying to take place - told students “what can we do?”
- allowed bullying to take place - told students “what can we do?”
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