Wood Green Academy

I attended this school for seven years, from year 7 up until year 13. One star is too generous.

I ended up confining to a teacher in distress about my parent abusing me in my first year. It was true. The school had a meeting with my parent, who said I was lying due to being grounded. The school dismissed the case. I was beat when I got home and trapped in an abusive household until I left when I turned 18.

My form tutor mistakenly marked me as late, warranting a 45 minute detention after school. The teacher and I went to inform the head of year, who claimed there was nothing that could be done, warranting another beating.

Another teacher asked me to come in at break for an unwarranted detention. I did so, and she wasn’t there. I sat in the corner of her classroom while some sixth form students worked on their project. The teacher never came and when break ended, I went to my next class. When I had this teacher again, she made me stand at the front of the class while she screamed at me claiming that her sixth form students said I wasn’t there and apparently I was just magically meant to know she was in the office.

A student injured her leg in PE, so I stopped doing the activity to help her. The PE teacher proceeded to make me do laps in front of everyone, as punishment for being a decent person. But the girl who threw a dodgeball at me so hard, 3 times until two of my fingers and my nose was broken, was applauded. Oh, and I was forced to sit there struggling to breathe, with broken bones, swelling and turning a dark purple “because they’re not broken, you’re just being dramatic.”

I found a girl cutting herself in the toilets and bought her to first receive medical attention, then to the head of year. I tried to seek help for her across 11 different teachers, all said she bought it upon herself.

I sat in the medical room for a few lunches and a girl with an eating disorder was being forced to eat in front of a teacher in the next room. Her sobs genuinely haunt my nightmares.

I was banned from a school trip due to being anxious.

Teachers have expressed that male victims of assault don’t exist. Building on from this point, another girl in sixth form, a whole adult, wanted to do a project on sexual assault. She was banned from it, rightfully expressed upset at this choice, and was threatened to be kicked out of sixth form for questioning it.

There are a lot of experiences and stories similar to these. But, the most horrifying, is that a girl in sixth form emailed highlighting homicidal thoughts (yes, as in wanting to kill another person) and she wasn’t safeguarded! This directly breaks the law (Tarasoff Rule)!

Maybe the school should focus less on promoting nothing but a left-wing agenda and creating a hostile environment for students (especially muslims and other religions) and instead, seek therapy for their employees who seem to get off on power and ruining children’s lives.

Racist- indoctrinating-hypocritical A School not fit for purpose

Atrocious messages given out to the future generation.

bad school to go to very racist

This school is the reason we have such devision in society. Students at this age are meant to be under the protection of the school which parents put their trust in. It's meant to be a safe environment for learning, not politics. Very disappointed.