Fairfax

Better than my primary… a four for now…

My daughter left Fairfax about a year ago, I’d sent her there as I’d seen good reviews online, and we live not far away. I’d hoped that it’d be a fresh start as we had to move houses due to a rough neighbourhood. I thought maybe the children and teachers would be better, but I was wrong. The teachers barely do anything except consequence, but there are some nice ones she said. From my daughter’s experience, the students are appalling. The bullying is DISGUSTING. No tolerance, they say, yet they let them get away with it EVERY SINGLE TIME!! So much to the point that my daughter began to harm herself because she couldn’t do anything about it. I rang up, emailed, went down to the school and somehow they’d always find a way to say it’s her fault. Nothing done. Honestly, DO NOT send your child here, unless you want them to end up locking themselves away forever and gaining mental health problems from the vile bullying. It’s disgusting. This school claims to care about the welfare of their students but not once have they ever been there for my child, if anything they blamed her for what was happening. The teachers stick up for the bullies because they’d rather let the children suffer than deal with the hassle of angry and distraught parents, they would always find an ‘excuse’ for why the bullies are doing what they are doing, but there were no excuses. Please, from a parent who had a child that was constantly struggling with being at Fairfax, DO NOT send them. THEY WILL DO NOTHING TO HELP THEM, THEY DO NOT CARE.

I started fairfax in year 8 and I was there for 6 weeks before deciding I couldn’t handle it anymore, the students are extremely rude and violent, and the staff treat you terribly. I got a detention on my first day because I didn’t complete the English work but I wasn’t there when they discussed the topic so I didn’t know where to start. And the staff are terrible at sorting out issues involving bullying, I was threatened online and in school and no one did anything to help and I felt alone. Please don’t send your child here because it could ruin their mental health

I was there from 2014-2019, there are two people who wrote a good review about this place and they are LYING, they were in the same year as me, and they looked pleased as punch along with me to get out of that place once and for all. The subjects i was educated with, most of them i wouldn't even dream of having a career in, the career i am having now wasn't even mentioned on Careers day, the students behaved so poorly socially wise by outcasting anyone they didn't see fit. It's always stick to your year unless you have a family in the other year, the social groups typically in America is not far off from the ones we had. They gave out Isolations, Detentions and Suspensions out like candy, the weekly Assemblies were useless and barely were even reasonable. They are lying when they say Parents BEG for their children to come to their sixth form, every person i know who went to that school regret going to that school. The teachers were swapped at a crucial moment half way through year 8 making us miss out on so many things at that stage. There were a few good teachers i will admit that but those were replaced by stubborn teachers. One final thing, if WE the students have a problem with someone else LEAVE US to sort it out, don't give out detentions, isolations suspensions for arguments we can sort out by ourselves, we GROW from these mistakes, DON'T correct our mistakes for us, LEAVE us to sort it out ourselves.