Kingussie High School

Safe to say, as a former student, the only thing I got out of this school was complete distrust in adult figures outside of my family.

Most Notably, a *** *********** in learning support, who had threatened me with sending me to the Head Master (Mr O. Bray at the time) over wanting to prioritise my exam revision over an outing with other students, and trying to make me feel bad for not wanting to go on another trip which she had arranged to go to the One Stop Shop in Inverness, even though a trip was already arranged with The Shirlie Project.

She even had the nerve to tell me to “stop complaining to my doctor” up at the Phoenix Centre in Inverness because I talked to her regarding me being thrown out of the learning base, and to get put back in to learning support.

Not to mention how she essentially said “people die, get over it” following the death of a special needs student, when I was struggling to handle the weight of such a sudden passing.

Along side this issue, I’ve had constant bullying problems which the staff did little to nothing about, which lead to me being suicidal and having issues with self harm, which lead to my referral to the Phoenix centre.

There was even an assault where the perpetrator pushed me into a radiator and my back was in a great deal of pain for several days, and they’d denied having done it, and it was treated like I’d slipped, which lead me to distrust most of the staff from then on.

As for classes, most were decent. The only things I remotely enjoyed were Music and both Metalwork/Woodwork classes, though I wasn’t the best with them.

PE was the only subject I loathed due to a *** ******** seemingly having something against me, shouting at me for having a hood on when it was raining when other students had theirs on, and even having a “Poor Effort” board, which felt more humiliating than motivating. It especially didn’t help that he looked like my father, which made things much worse than it should have been.

It took me snapping and getting physically aggressive at a student, and brought myself down to the Deputy Head’s office (Mr. I. Adamson at the time) before I was even listened to, and something was done. Which helped with the *** ********* issue, and got me moved to another support teacher.

It also didn’t help that in S6, a school trip to the Inverness College was techically forced upon the students, and those who didn’t attend would get attention. It lead to me having a severe panic attack and potentially considering the idea of walking out of the college and heading back on foot. I was left unsupervised and was in an unfamiliar place where I did not want to be.
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Some teachers are brill but when it comes to bullying they are useless