Stradbroke High School

My son was continuously picked on , bullied, thrown around like a rag doll , picked up by other students , touched by a student that made him feel uncomfortable . We got to the point where it was pointless complaining as nothing was done . It was a group of boys that stuck together and just lied and stuck to the same story ! Teachers just believed them leaving my son dealing with detention for making things up . The final straw was my husband heard the abuse of these boys through my sons bedroom door on a loudspeaker phone , it was horrendous . We removed him immediately from the school , we had no choice . My son was terrified to go back as he explained every time we complain it makes it worse for him at school

Stradbroke has become a mess over the years that I’ve been there. Some of the teachers are half-decent but the others are downright atrocious at their jobs. The science department lacks specifically, the teachers can’t even teach their own subjects. The English department has never taught anyone anything and their method of teaching is awful, same goes for the maths department. The school is too focused on its sports department and it needs to calm down, they care so much less for any form of performing arts. They treat their students like robots and expect them to write a 20 mark exam question in 5 minutes, it’s simply not possible. The whole rule with the toilets and being disallowed to go during lessons are awful, many female students complain about not being able to change their sanitary products during lesson because they’re either leaking or they couldn’t do it during break and lunch. The hallways are always a mess, the buses are a tip but the school does nothing. And the most recent thing is the year 11 interventions, revision is important and the whole year knows that, but they only get 2/5 lunches free nowadays, Tuesday it’s maths, Wednesday it’s English and Thursdays it’s science, it’s important but why are they compulsory? They should be optional, year 11 is stressful and students should be allowed to take a break, many of them complain about sore arms and cramping hands by the end of lunch. Interventions should be optional for every student, their grades depend on their will of learning and if they don’t want to attend these revision sessions then fine, it’s not the students fault that their teachers failed to teach them what they’re supposed to know. Interventions were optional the past few years, so why is it compulsory now? And they don’t care about students mental health as much as they say they do, they overwork students until they’re at a breaking point and all they do when a student is upset is just tell them to calm down. They don’t offer assistance to anyone who isn’t ‘special’ despite many students needing it. Don’t overwork your students.

Stradbroke isn’t the school it used to be. Be better.

A good school but honestly sometimes the teachers at the head of the school are a bit power crazy haha. We’re just a small school though so it’s really cool that all the teachers know every single student and I think this really adds to the quality of our education :) If you come here watch out for MADE- the school loves it’s acronyms.

The teachers don’t do anything about the major racism, homophobia, transphobia or anything, they just don’t bother. People on buses are nightmares but the school won’t do a single thing about them. Their support for students with mental health is telling them to just calm down, hold them uncomfortably and put them into a louder room than before. Some of the teachers can’t even do their jobs right. They can’t teach.