Robert Clack School

this school is WAY to strict and they care abt the length of the skirts rather than education. One time I only forgot my frickin book and they gave me an hour detention which is the most stupid punishment for JUST forgetting ur book. The fights r fun to watch tho

I had a fight with a white person I got IEU 2 Days and the white person went unpunished. RACIST TEACHERS.I had another fight and the guy told me to say"SORRY DADDY KING........."held me on my jumper and teachers came, I had lunch Detention but the guy did not get a lunch Detention.The RACIST teacher , I put my hand up to go to the toilet and the teacher said NO......

School teachers incorporate their anti-Palestinian bias on students who use their right to freedom of expression:

The school has so far failed to discipline the Deputy Headteacher who wrongly interrogated a student based on his pro-Palestine stance, without an adult for him present, in a way which the student and his team see an Islamophobic approach.
Another staff member threatened the student be deprived of his right of his education, by forcing him to take off his Palestine badges else he cannot go to lessons, despite him using his right to freedom of expression within school policy and government guidance.

This skl is so bad the teachers are too strict of little irrelevant things however completely ignore the important stuff they worry more abt ppl Lenth of skirts than education.

It’s rlly bad because the teachers are rubbish we don’t learn anything and we just get yelled at for the most dumbest things

i came here thinking it was the best school in the area. boy was i wrong. from under-experienced irresponsible teachers, to almost authoritarian rules that we were expected to abide by, i hated my time here. in year 11, we were forced to line up every single day in form order, in silence, to which we were normally screamed at by our head of year for around 10 minutes. sometimes the colourful nature of her language was kinda shocking to be used against a group of 15-16 year olds. honestly, i felt like i was stepping into north korea 5 times a week.

the food used to be quite palatable around 2016-early 2017, until of course, the old head teacher resigned and was replaced by our current one. then that too started to fall in standards. now our lunchtimes consist mostly of packaged high calorie snacks, god awful chicken wraps which have been pink inside many an occasion, greasy hot food from the freezer and sandwiches that contain almost half a daily allowance of sodium (i'm not joking). however these sandwiches are probably the most acceptable thing offered to us, most likely because they source them from someone that probably actually cares about feeding students, which is why about 15 go on sale every day... to feed almost 420 year 11 students. the amount of money fed into constructing pointless buildings and extensions, while some parts of the school suffer with such extreme dilapidation, it's a surprise some parts haven't already collapsed. all the money pumped into these "sucking up to ofsted" projects rather than making the school better for the students really says volumes about their ethics and priorities.

onto their response to covid-19, which of course, was abhorrent too. in march 2020, they began on a good foot and created google classrooms for each subject to act almost like a hub for students to reach their teachers for help, and a place that made doing homework much less stressful. this was until the following months when teachers continued to assign homework as regularly or even sometimes more frequently than they would in person. i personally had NO zoom online classes, but i was being assigned work as if i was. doing that for 9+ subjects threw me into a depression spiral that i was extremely lucky to crawl out from, but in true Robert Clack fashion, they didn't care. after a few months of telling them about how this lockdown was affecting me, they put me in learning mentors and assumed that was that. until they then decided to move me down a set in maths almost randomly, choosing to pull me out of my art class to pass the message to me, and then never giving any follow up. i had to personally pry to get any sort of explanation as to why i was moved down, the first reason of course being "lack of space in the classroom" and after a few weeks i finally was told that "my grades hadn't progressed as much as they should have", almost completely going against everything i had previously told them about my situation. the classroom i moved to was not good. a teacher that treated us simultaneously like babies and full grown adults, rowdy students, classwork that was insultingly easy for me further signifying that i shouldn't have been moved here and much more. in terms of our gcses, we were told 3 weeks in advance that we would be doing 5 weeks of exams. giving me almost no time per subject to deeply study before doing gcse papers i've had absolutely no prior experience with (as my year group didn't end up doing our year 10 mocks). this led to about 100x more stress than i personally needed that year and it's nothing short of a miracle i made it to the other side considering the lack of support and empathy from most teachers.

even on the basis of basic health and safety when returning to school, the response was abysmal. no emphasis of wearing masks until much later in the school year, minimal social distancing despite the hundreds of giant sickly neon yellow signs that stood ironically in some of the most crowded hallways i've had the displeasure of seeing (and experiencing), students being allowed to wear their masks (if they had them on at all) completely incorrectly as we sit shoulder to shoulder in unventilated classrooms. i also happened to notice that the lunch tables in the canteen are cleaned so irregularly that it's almost scary. as an experiment, my friend decided to leave a fairly big pile of crumbs on one section of the table, coming back after a few days and the crumbs kept in the same exact position. gross.

i can't even say their sixth form is any better. i for one haven't even gone back to school yet, and the amount of summer work i've been given for each subject is almost criminal. disguised as "bridging work" designed to "bridge the gap between our year 11 knowledge and the a-level curriculum." which i wouldn't have as big of a gripe with if it wasn't being shoved into my face in MY summer break, the few moments i have to destress from the hell of year 11, being once again ruined by Robert Clack and their desire to be so much more than they will ever be.

i could ramble on for much longer about the microaggressive staff that seem to feel the need to reprimand us for even the tiniest of things, or the lack of basic school supplies that teachers have to buy out of their own pockets, but i fear i would never be able to stop.
in short, this school has taught me nothing except that educators have to do so much better. i'm sure that the issues i've discussed aren't exclusive to my school, which makes everything so much more concerning. the normalisation of schools completely crushing the creative spirits of children, only to pump out burnt out, uninspired 18 year olds who have no clue what to do with their life... it's scary.

just don't come here please. don't raise their ego any more than it is.