Stockport School

Academics. Teachers provide little to no support for people with learning difficulties like autism and ADHD making it incredibly difficult for these people to learn. Teachers only care about uniform and GCSE grades. And oh do they care about GCSE grades...every lesson you'll hear "this will be in your GCSEs" "it's your GCSE grades not mine." Bullying Bullying is absolutely rampant. You will see it in the corridors, in class, playgrounds, fields Everywhere. Slurs are tossed around like a hot potato and unless your "normal" I guarantee your time there would be worse than hell.

The teachers care more about uniform and there reputation as a school more than students mental health. When u do something wrong they never ask why u did it they just punish u straight away. We understand they want the best for us and are trying to help but in the same way there destroying us as people and are making us feel unhappy all the time. When we try to talk to a teacher about how we feel to them we’re just “over reacting” or “that’s just being a teenager” when in reality it’s not. The teachers talk to kids as if there nothing, the students try there best and they don’t notice but we do the smallest thing wrong and u get a big punishment. No one should go to school thinking “same thing different day” or “here we go again” yet I know I speak for a lot of students saying this that’s how we feel waking up realising we have to go there. That’s the truth..

Terrible with handling mental health, I got told I was faking and teachers made me feel bad for it. Forced to leave in year 10 as I couldn't handle it and even my mum didn't want me going there from how bad it was effecting me. Got told by a deputy head that I'll never do triple science cos I'll never pass it when he new how passionate I was about science. I got no support from this school and continued to suffer from severe anxiety and depression.

As a teacher at Stockport school, I can say that the student's wellbeing and thoughts about school are completely disregarded and unlistened too. There is no platform for students to raise concerns about their learning and their own safety at school. The school is run like a dictatorship. A certain assistant headteacher bullies students who he deems as 'stupid' and has even publically humiliated them in front of an entire class, I have had students say to me that they are terrified of going to his lessons. However, not every teacher is like this. Our school also has some amazing teachers who really care about the student's wellbeing and not just their grades which is exactly what a good teacher should be. Another thing I've noticed is the lack of mask-wearing by the teachers, yet the students are expected to wear them. The teachers are putting vulnerable students at risk by not even wearing a simple mask. Half of them wear a plastic visor which offers little to no protection of corona. This shows what some teachers attitudes are like towards those who are at risk.

High percentage of teachers don't wear masks, including the headteachers wife. Yet students are expected to wear masks and are screamed at for not wearing one even with mask exemption. You can't have one policy for students and another for teachers. People call it a school but I call it a prison. Poor teaching in many subjects but some teachers are amazing. KS4 pastoral is awful and unsupportive towards many students compared to the KS3 pastoral team. Uniform is way to strict and unreasonable for many students, year 11's are forced to stand in the cold weather where as the other years get the privilege of the canteen. The one way system is ineffective and not covid safe especially with teachers not wearing masks or just wearing a plastic visor (which newsflash has minimal protection against covid).On the flipside there are some teachers who care about the students and don't take the easy way in teaching and always go the extra mile for them. But this isn't all teachers as some can't be bothered to even mark our online school work or help students when they ask for help (cough cough an assistant headteacher). The same assistant head has called multiple 'stupid' for failing a test which if anything shows his lack of good teaching. He's made fun of students with anxiety in front of the entire class, and if a student did this then it would be classes as bullying and would have faced sanctions. Yet he can abuse his power because he knows he will get away with it. The history department however is amazing especially with letting students out on time so they don't get referrals from their next lesson, also has always offered the students help when they don't understand.