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City Academy Birmingham
Secondary · Academy · Birmingham
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Really posh
Poshest school in Birmingham.
Don't send your child here
It's not good the pupils get bullied and nothing gets sorted the teachers are crap and don't do nothing the school hate it no don't send your child here if you don't want there mental health to drop
Worst school in Birmingham
I would give 0 if I could. Worst school In Birmingham this school ruined my son’s life he is only just recovering now and he is now 18. He went to the school academically bright, teachers never stay at the school, the good ones always leave. The is no consistency to the teaching. Pupils are bullied by students and teachers, the pupils in turn then become bullies or act out of character to fit into this hell hole. They changed there name several times over the years hence why there is not an up to date ofsted report. You have been warned. They didn’t have much in the way of extra curricular activities. No weficient outdoor space. It is not a school it is a holding cell for the unfortunate kids that live in the inner city areas. It is a disgrace.
Evil people
one of the worst school I ever see or heard. Children are moved from class to class to avoid teachers to deal with issues the children experience.
Children are constantly bullied or racially abuse or called racism. Racist names are often used tower black people, ginger people. Every day students have a new teacher, and missing out many lessons due to lack of teachers. Children are denied school meal due no help is given to parents to fill any form and are told they not entitled to school meal. Kids have to steel others kids to eat. There's constantly fight and parents are called to go get their kids because a group of students will try to attack your child. Bad stuffs about teachers and students are posted online and school does not take any action. Even teachers saying they would never put their child in that school. Teachers are called names.
If you parents try to speak out, all the school team bully you. Emails and phone calls are never answered or transmit to the right person. The only things you get is someone will call you back and you are cut off. If you call the reception they never know where to transfer you. If you try to take you child from the school they block you and make lies about you to others schools. School vouchers are used not for the right kids. If you try to complaint about the school you will be turn around and never get to the right department. Reception making laugh of parents on the phone and head teacher tell parents that is their community issue no school issue, if your child have problem with a child with same background than you. Some of staff go tell others children personal problems you facing or your child facing , so kids can find more raison to bully your child. Evil people who should not be with children wor in that school.
Children are constantly bullied or racially abuse or called racism. Racist names are often used tower black people, ginger people. Every day students have a new teacher, and missing out many lessons due to lack of teachers. Children are denied school meal due no help is given to parents to fill any form and are told they not entitled to school meal. Kids have to steel others kids to eat. There's constantly fight and parents are called to go get their kids because a group of students will try to attack your child. Bad stuffs about teachers and students are posted online and school does not take any action. Even teachers saying they would never put their child in that school. Teachers are called names.
If you parents try to speak out, all the school team bully you. Emails and phone calls are never answered or transmit to the right person. The only things you get is someone will call you back and you are cut off. If you call the reception they never know where to transfer you. If you try to take you child from the school they block you and make lies about you to others schools. School vouchers are used not for the right kids. If you try to complaint about the school you will be turn around and never get to the right department. Reception making laugh of parents on the phone and head teacher tell parents that is their community issue no school issue, if your child have problem with a child with same background than you. Some of staff go tell others children personal problems you facing or your child facing , so kids can find more raison to bully your child. Evil people who should not be with children wor in that school.
This centre should not be entitled as a school.
To be honest I have never seen such kinds of boring and horrific school in the world.
This school behaviour breakdown reporting system is ridiculously poor, you can't imagine this school is in the land of England, shame.
If I had known the school's damn history, I would have never let my child to learn in this hell.
This school behaviour breakdown reporting system is ridiculously poor, you can't imagine this school is in the land of England, shame.
If I had known the school's damn history, I would have never let my child to learn in this hell.
Don’t send ur child there
Not even one star this school is shot u take your child there they will be bullied teachers do not care at all about the students future there always acting fake when parents come to the school is like one of the worst schools is ghetto some student are something else i literally feel like I wasted my time trying to learn in the school the school never had a non school uniform because the headteacher things is not fair Tf I was formleader i tried to change some of the school rule but they don’t care like only a few teacher who do care always get sent away and the school doesn’t have proper teachers for the subject like a drama teacher is teaching me maths then turns the lesson into drama no culture days or anything nice no nice activities and there is no door on the bathroom like people can walk pass and see u washing ur hands
City academy crisis
Where do I begin with this school, I am a student there still currently and oh boy the amount of unprofessionalism and neglect this school has is shocking, how has the school board allowed this school to go on?
Kids behaviour is appalling, and the kids that do their best don’t get recognised with the credit they deserve.
The safeguarding, there’s a lot to talk about there. They overall do not know how to understand kids emotions, or how to deal with them, they’ll just give you a booklet and that’s it, no one there on that team is specially trained to help these kids, and not to mention a tyrant that is on that team, also known as miss Lewis, she’ll pick favourites and not to mention she’ll pick on staff, (I personally know that most staff in that building fear her, and wouldn’t personally direct her)
To continue, the students. On a search day one brought a knife into the building then decides to throw it on the stairwell, how do you let that happen? Knowing that the whole year groups being searched they couldn’t a staff member on the floor stairwell where the searches taking place
And the fact they’re oblivious to smell of weed and vapes. The schools bathrooms are like a smokers corner, not to mention kids giving out weed cup cakes and the teachers not noticing.
And several girls and boys from every year group caught being high of cannabis yet only temporarily excluding them and not always bringing the police in
Furthermore, the school funds are mostly wasted on things we don’t need for example the astroturf, it was supposedly a reward however no one voted for this? It more of the boys said they wanted it, the boys got it, but what about the girls? They never had a say. And along w that the school lacks the funds for a proper indoor space and when receiving a classroom that is accompanied by a teacher or several teachers it’ll get shut down. Leaving the non socialable students forced to go out of their comfortable zone into a more so stressful anxiety ridden place.
It doesn’t help that the fact there is fights almost weekly, a kid getting bashed onto the floor? A kids wig getting pulled out their scalp? A students lip busted, not to mention several others who also experienced some sort of abuse within the school grounds it makes you question is this really a safe school if they cannot spot the sparks of conflict before it gets out of hand?
Furthermore, the verbal abuse the staff thinks they can hand out is ghastly. Teachers yelling in students faces, gaslighting, gossiping, and overall making the students feel as if they’re worthless or insignificant in the matter.
The school also lacks members of required staff, and can’t seem to keep the staff they currently have. The head teacher is clearly not qualified to run this school as she walks around parading the corridors as if she’s the queen, she picks favourites from skin tone. Also is known ti be racist and choose favourites she’ll punish some kids harshly and some lightly regarding who it is
We lack a proper maths department with only a singular decent teacher who’s always busy with meeting or a singular year 11 class as the year 10s seem to be driven down a path way to failure. The teachers we do have in the department fail to keep the class in control let alone teach.
Now time for the mentioning of the bullying and the “safeguarding” they provide. The school lacks to teach the kids about basic slang that must not be said regarding homophobia, racism, sexism and much more. The kids at this school do not feel safe as clearly the kids who bully are favourable by teachers and however some teachers do try to put an end it carries on and on. Most student don’t mention how hard it is to get in and face the fact of “I’m going to get verbally abused by another student” overall this school lacks the help to motivate and keep these kids going
Most kids here struggle through this school.
There’s so much more to say however this schools lists of problems would be written into a book if people had a chance to state it’s problems.
Kids behaviour is appalling, and the kids that do their best don’t get recognised with the credit they deserve.
The safeguarding, there’s a lot to talk about there. They overall do not know how to understand kids emotions, or how to deal with them, they’ll just give you a booklet and that’s it, no one there on that team is specially trained to help these kids, and not to mention a tyrant that is on that team, also known as miss Lewis, she’ll pick favourites and not to mention she’ll pick on staff, (I personally know that most staff in that building fear her, and wouldn’t personally direct her)
To continue, the students. On a search day one brought a knife into the building then decides to throw it on the stairwell, how do you let that happen? Knowing that the whole year groups being searched they couldn’t a staff member on the floor stairwell where the searches taking place
And the fact they’re oblivious to smell of weed and vapes. The schools bathrooms are like a smokers corner, not to mention kids giving out weed cup cakes and the teachers not noticing.
And several girls and boys from every year group caught being high of cannabis yet only temporarily excluding them and not always bringing the police in
Furthermore, the school funds are mostly wasted on things we don’t need for example the astroturf, it was supposedly a reward however no one voted for this? It more of the boys said they wanted it, the boys got it, but what about the girls? They never had a say. And along w that the school lacks the funds for a proper indoor space and when receiving a classroom that is accompanied by a teacher or several teachers it’ll get shut down. Leaving the non socialable students forced to go out of their comfortable zone into a more so stressful anxiety ridden place.
It doesn’t help that the fact there is fights almost weekly, a kid getting bashed onto the floor? A kids wig getting pulled out their scalp? A students lip busted, not to mention several others who also experienced some sort of abuse within the school grounds it makes you question is this really a safe school if they cannot spot the sparks of conflict before it gets out of hand?
Furthermore, the verbal abuse the staff thinks they can hand out is ghastly. Teachers yelling in students faces, gaslighting, gossiping, and overall making the students feel as if they’re worthless or insignificant in the matter.
The school also lacks members of required staff, and can’t seem to keep the staff they currently have. The head teacher is clearly not qualified to run this school as she walks around parading the corridors as if she’s the queen, she picks favourites from skin tone. Also is known ti be racist and choose favourites she’ll punish some kids harshly and some lightly regarding who it is
We lack a proper maths department with only a singular decent teacher who’s always busy with meeting or a singular year 11 class as the year 10s seem to be driven down a path way to failure. The teachers we do have in the department fail to keep the class in control let alone teach.
Now time for the mentioning of the bullying and the “safeguarding” they provide. The school lacks to teach the kids about basic slang that must not be said regarding homophobia, racism, sexism and much more. The kids at this school do not feel safe as clearly the kids who bully are favourable by teachers and however some teachers do try to put an end it carries on and on. Most student don’t mention how hard it is to get in and face the fact of “I’m going to get verbally abused by another student” overall this school lacks the help to motivate and keep these kids going
Most kids here struggle through this school.
There’s so much more to say however this schools lists of problems would be written into a book if people had a chance to state it’s problems.
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