The Cumberland School

If I could give them one star, I would. Almost six years since leaving this shithole and me and my peers still have unresolved trauma from attending here. No child should have to go through the mental abuse and torment kids at this school experienced, especially after it became an academy in 2018 and hired all these good-for-nothing low-lives who get a kick out of screaming at children because, in reality, these social rejects (“teachers”) have no power or authority anywhere else in their lives. It’s disgusting.

We were told things like “you will not amount to anything” for something as trivial as refusing to fold our arms during LINEUP like we were in the military, or “get out of MY school” - as if they’d ever be able to own anything more valuable than a broken pen (that too from the school’s poor funding LOL) with the way they carried themselves. Some even made straight-up threatening comments like “I’m gonna kill somebody today” - I’m looking at you Omar Halitosis Hanif.

Students noticed the staff-based bullying constantly - the geography department in particular was notorious for it. Six years on, my friends and I still deal with the effects: feeling vulnerable, believing we won’t amount to anything, struggling with self-esteem, not speaking up because we feel we won’t be heard. We were well-behaved kids who were screamed at, belittled, and ridiculed by the very people who were supposed to support us.

Now my brother’s in Year 11 and this Samina Yasmin low-life is almost a close contender to Omar Halitosis Hanif I hear. She regularly tells children to “GET OUT OF MY SCHOOL” - I’m sorry, YOUR school? Lady, your dad doesn’t even own a village in Bangladesh talking about some YOUR school girl please 😭😭. I have heard reports of her calling students idiots too - is this how you train your teachers now? I doubt that’s very responsible. Funniest part is, in public she’s very docile. All of a sudden, the second they step foot in a school environment, they get the confidence to abuse and belittle MINORS because they can’t argue with people their own age. Pathetic.

Awful treatment of students, treated like cattle. A soulless passionless place where grades are the only focus.

Teachers are so dumb these days at cumberland the teachers are just a piece of shit

Poor leadership, have no control over the students. Parent and students have no respect for the residents that live in the road. Rubbish constantly thrown on to the property’s and the language from these students and staff is shocking

Extremely bad school, does NOT care about safeguarding children and safety outside of school. They take students phones for a whole week till parents collect their phone.

They don’t care if parents are on their deathbed. Would still rather not give the phone back till parents collect it.

Teachers are also bully’s and think they are a god and think they can overpower students as they are all young.

Awful school, all the teachers are rude it is so strict for example we have to cross our arms in a certain position for the whole lesson (1-2 hours), if we doing anything wrong which could even be a minor thing we also get 1 hour detention after school