Harlaw Academy

This school is an awful place to be.
There is multiple teachers with inappropriate jobs. Such as a porn star. It is disgusting.

Homophobia and racism are all around the school. Students bullying disabled people and nothing done about it.

There is no support here do not come here

This school is a total disaster! It needs a lot of improvement, and why are teachers thinking of renovating the school when the 5-6 students will be gone, like why can't we have a better school and enjoy our school while were in it, why do they have to do these new things only for the S1-S4 to enjoy, It surely isn't fair for the others is it, we are gonna leave after being in a bad school while the young ones get to enjoy the beautiful new renovations and not us. Teachers only care about having our jackets on in class and our phones, but not much about vaping or bullying and other things that might be happening outside of the school, they help us a lot i can admit, some of them at least, some care, some don't, some of them care WAY TOO MUCH, if u see someone on their phone why bother in telling them to put iot away, just let them be, if they dont want to learn then that it's their problem, they will face the consequences, it has nothing to do with you. Please do something about this school people, make us proud to be here.

My son's math teacher took my son back to his house and said "get on the table you dirty boy and give daddy all your c*m"

I wish it was me 😔

raw chicken breasts and people have feet out

This school sucks and most of the teachers don’t give a dam about you they only care about trying to make the school seem better, the food is too pricey the bathrooms are constantly locked the teachers think they’re all that and that the students opinions and feelings don’t matter cuz they’re in charge again MOST of the teachers there is a few that are good but all in all don’t come here we’re over capacity anyways

Would give 0 stars if i could. when become S3+ you have double periods with teachers that cant teach whatsoever. toilets are dirty and if you decide to them, teachers kick you out and send letters home despite knowing someones home situation and how their parents may react to it.
The school only cares about their reputation to the outside world, racism is a huge issue that is never taught in classrooms, you can hear slurs being shouted throughout corridors and if you tell a member of staff, they dismiss you and gaslight you, making you believe it is your fault.
The former headteacher with an egg head called me to his office saying my leggings were see through, and he allows teachers who do adult videos.

Lovely staff and good mrmories.

I have now left the school I went here for five years It was an amazing school before the new headteacher(Ross McLaren) He only cares about his reputation and money. He’s a horrible horrible person He says to kids, how they’re going to get nowhere in life And he always brag about his children being better. I was bullied for years and no one did nothing about it until one day, I stuck up for myself, even though they hit first, I got excluded. The toilets are horrendous Those only six working toilets when they’re open they locked the girls toilets and not the boys, which I think is unacceptable because girls have more rights The headteacher goes into the girls toilets when there’s people in there. As I said, it was an amazing school until he came. I am only writing this because I don’t want other kids feel how I did
Thanks : Anonymous

This school is absolutely horrendous. My daughter has went here for two years. She has came home multiple times crying. She has been locked up in a room for six hours multiple times. She has been laughed at for being dyslexic. There is absolutely no support here for kids with additional needs. The headteacher locks, the girls toilets, but not the boys he comes into the girls toilets as a male I did not think this is very acceptable!! if your kid has additional needs, please don’t come to this school!!

my daughter has been going to this school for 2 years this school is absolutely horrendous my child has been laughed at for being dyslexic . my child has been locked up in a room for 6 hours . she has come home multiple times crying her heart out. the head teacher has screamed at her for using the toilets at lunch . If your kid has additional needs please don't send them to this school.the girls are always locked up and when they are unlocked there is only 2/3 toilet there's always locked and when they are unlocked there's only cubicles that you can use. The head teacher comes in as a male i think this is don't acceptable!

The teachers are horrible they don't care about you wouldn't put your
all they care about as long as they're getting paid they won't care about your kid
when you have a meeting in the head teacher says he was there but he wasn't

I wouldn't put your kids here

Extremely bad. Head teacher is bald like a little baby as he is childish and unfit to run a school. And this new teacher miss k is even worse she cannot control her class and will send pupils out for no reason they should bring back miss Murray (she’s just better) and most teachers are actually so horrible I can’t even explain it

It’s honestly just bad, they do not care or do anything about bullying or racism apart from telling them to stop, they just tell you not to retaliate and to tell a teacher but if you do tell a teacher you are a snitch, bad education because of disruptive students who cause trouble for no reason just to get a laugh of people and make it hard to focus, wouldn’t recommend sending your child here unless they’re a roadman or chav, bad education system and don’t do much to help kids understand what there doing, quite a few teachers are rude, and the head teacher acts like he’s running a primary school, this school is ridiculous, and could do with an upgrade, s1 playground wall was literally crumbling and they had to corner off the wall so it didn’t hit someone, and the amount of fights That happen here are way to many, not to mention the people who get jumped outside of school and on literal buses where you should feel safe, and it is over the most ridiculous reasons and lies. From someone who’s experienced it all firsthand Don’t send ur kid here as will either get bullied or will change into one of the disruptive pupils who are just rude.

The food is not nice at all I think they should get better people to cook the food and that they should clean up more because the school is disgusting and they need to put more bins around

i attended harlaw academy for 6 years and sadly my last day was ruined by one teacher excluding me and 5 of my friends eventhough the reason why we got left out every other person in our year was taking part in cheers to miss esslemont for making her first year of leavers a bad one

Horrible schools they’d o nothing about pupils mental health issues and a lot of jokes from teachers and head teacher that are just so sad like the things my son gets told by the teachers is actually a real shame they joke about kids not getting anywhere in life and just such cruel stuff not being supported and telling them they can’t achieve anything in life is just so heart breaking to hear from people that should be encouraging and setting an example and also joking about mental health as well and also teachers being very rude and a lot of favouritism’s a lot teachers will be nice to some students and horrible to others a lot is sexism happens in that school is ridiculous and other thing is that they don’t give second chances when they make a mistake then they don’t give u a second chance which is not right in the school your supposed learn and learn from your mistakes and should definitely be given chances to proof yourself and also another thing is, is that students don’t get to say there opinions and get ignored when they go through things struggle in class or don’t want to be in class for personal reason and being told to just go to class and stop complaining which is just horrible to say when someone could be going through something could be from other people in class or other reason but they don’t care, they do not care about the students at all they only care about there reputation as a school

Worst school of all time .The teachers are useless the place is falling apart , the help for special needs is shocking they don’t care about the students . The teacher talk to the students how they like ( being rude and nasty)

First of all, they lock the toilets. They also have told students they cant not use the bathroom and must wait untill bell. Most of them are locked time to time, and for people who get periods, they need to say if they are on it to get allowed out. The excuse the Headteacher says 'its caused by vandilism', which can be a good reason, but that shouldnt stop people from going to the bathroom. It's a basic human need. They say they are against hate crime and bullying but they're not. For example, someone can say the T slur and get away with it, even if the teacher hears it, but as soon as the person who is getting hate crimed on says something, they get into trouble and not the person doing the hate crime. Also the school will also try and out you to your guardian, even if you say you're scared of the outcome and say its not safe. Take Hazlehead Academy, they dont out the students to their guardians!
They also let someone get away with sexual touching people without their consent. This is a female pupil, if you're wondering. The school did nothing and went on about consent in 'sex ed', which wasnt as good as I hoped it was supposed to be in 2022! Harlaw better fix all of their problems, this school is bad enough already.
This is by two year 3 students.

HAZELHEAD IS BETTER BOZOS