Bullshit.the school locks the toilets almost all day. we can’t use toilets at break or lunch 😂 laughable. Won’t open the toilets for anyone even if ur due to change a pad or a tampon. teachers have full access to staff toilet but lock ours due to ‘vaping’ when the toilets are open (occasionally) we get checked to see if we have anything that we shouldn’t have or tell us to leave our phones and coats with them. Uniform isn’t thick enough and won’t let us wear our hoodies because it’s not school uniform but teachers wear 10 layers and say they’re warm so we should be too?! We get treated the ‘same’ but they don’t shout at their favorite students but if others done something like that we get put in isolation. we can hardly eat st breaks and lunch because they put all year groups together and some people don’t have enough to get good never mind eat it.if we’re late to lesson bc we haven’t finished our lunch we get detention. Unfair! Pontypridd High School should be shut down asap!!!
Always great to see a school that cares about the pupils mental wellbeing but, this isn't one of those.
Through my experiences of this school I have struggled with anxiety and depression. I thought the best way to deal with this was to try and get a time out card, which I successfully got. I was only able to use it properly for about a week until I started to get restrictions on it.
A couple people who also had cards started to experience that when they tried to leave the classroom and go to the attendance room (which we were advised to go to when we had to leave the classroom) they had an experience of having a time limit on the time we were able to be there. My friend had just experienced a panic attack and needed to leave the room, so they head up to the room and they were told that a teacher, a deputy head had told the attendance room, a place where you're meant to stay safe, that they were only allowed to stay there for 5 minutes. Keep in mind that the teacher wasn't there at the time and had passed on that message to keep that student for the shortest amount possible. They purposefully picked them out and took away the support system that should've been in place for them. I don't know if you've ever had a panic attack but, it doesn't take 5 minutes to calm down. It takes hours, sometimes days to fully recover. Yet these teachers were aware of our problems they willingly ignore them for the sake of what? Because you "over use" or "abuse" a card that is supposed to help you?
These students try their best to be in lesson but the school overlooks that and decides that they know better. Another experience I was made aware of was that one person was having a severe panic attack that left them unable to talk for a while. Their panic attacks are recently caused by loud noise. So, their head was lowered and about 3 teachers aggressively shouted at them to lift their head up when they were clearly shaking.
If you don't care about your child's mental health then Pontypridd High School is the place for you!
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