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Glen Waverley Secondary College
Secondary · Government · Glen Waverley
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Horrible school.
This school is horrible. The teachers are so bad and incredibly rude, many of the male teachers act incredibly inappropriately towards female students and there is so much bias against male students. The coordinators focus on stupid things students are doing which impact their image instead of caring for their whole school, many kids struggle with bullying, racism and so much more, the school tries to be prestigious and pretend they’re a private school by giving you lunchtime detention if your uniform is incorrect, they even take it so far where they check the colour of your socks, and if you’re wearing an additional layer underneath they make you remove it. They confiscate airpods and phones like it’s illegal and make your parents come and pick it up. This school is so horrible, all they care about is their image and do not care about students at all. So many people do many illegal things. Every time i used to walk in bathrooms it smelled like cigarettes, and i can only imagine what else people were doing in the school. Overall, this school is good if you want your child to be neglected, bullied, and if they’re a female possibly harassed by many male teachers, have their entire clothes and body inspected for a minor infraction and get yelled at by many many teachers. I am not going to say who, but many will know a teacher who is very obviously taking it too far by behaving incredibly inappropriately towards female students.
Don’t go here
Very very bad school. Andrew bottomer is a p3do and eleni stavrou is very rude!
Need to fix their teachers
As a student who attended this school from grade 7 all the way to grade 12. The school has a problem, and it's the massive prejudice towards boys and often multicultured individuals. The worst staff member that they somehow have managed to keep promoting to senior due seniority is H*len A*w*y. A genuinely awful teacher who mutters under her breath, shouts at students' parents and even called a student a "sociopath" AND numerous other horrible things I cant recall. I am completely surprised she hasn't been fired. Along with her there are multiple other staff leaders that are absolutely horrible in the way they speak to/treat their students. They look all friendly on the website and in person, but I guarantee you they aren't. In all honesty some teacher's are quite a blessing, but it does not equate to the amount of bigotry up at the management level.
PATHETIC SCHOOL
DO NOT COME HERE — YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!
This school is an absolute nightmare. The teachers couldn’t care less about students or their learning — they only show up for the paycheck. Favoritism is everywhere, especially toward girls, while boys get ignored and treated unfairly. The facilities are pathetic — old, filthy, and completely neglected. Instead of fixing what actually matters, the school wastes money on pointless junk like “peace poles” no one cares about and blasting classical music in the disgusting bathrooms as if that’s going to stop fights.
And now, to make things even worse, the school is ruining the only oval we have by covering it with these hideous cardboard-box-looking buildings. It’s made everything more crowded and inconvenient for students, and literally everyone hates it. Yet the school parades it around like some big achievement, while in reality, other schools are laughing at how ridiculous it looks.
This place is a complete joke. If you actually want to learn, be treated fairly, and enjoy going to school, go anywhere else. Coming here is one of the worst choices you could make.
This school is an absolute nightmare. The teachers couldn’t care less about students or their learning — they only show up for the paycheck. Favoritism is everywhere, especially toward girls, while boys get ignored and treated unfairly. The facilities are pathetic — old, filthy, and completely neglected. Instead of fixing what actually matters, the school wastes money on pointless junk like “peace poles” no one cares about and blasting classical music in the disgusting bathrooms as if that’s going to stop fights.
And now, to make things even worse, the school is ruining the only oval we have by covering it with these hideous cardboard-box-looking buildings. It’s made everything more crowded and inconvenient for students, and literally everyone hates it. Yet the school parades it around like some big achievement, while in reality, other schools are laughing at how ridiculous it looks.
This place is a complete joke. If you actually want to learn, be treated fairly, and enjoy going to school, go anywhere else. Coming here is one of the worst choices you could make.
My honest review
I was going to rate the school an “average” but honestly I just can’t. The facilities itself are decent and clean (most of the time) but the students can be really evil. And it’s not like “oh ha ha” kind of mean, it’s like borderline evil. There are so many so called policies that the school has that are NEVER enforced. I can’t say what grade I’m in, because then it’ll be a bit easier to track me down someway if anyone ever cared, but I’ll just say that this school is depressing. I’ve been here from the very start, from the first day of grade seven and even before that, if you count orientation, and in these past few years, I’ll just say, I’ve lost more friends than I’ve made. I’m not saying I’m not grateful for my friends, because I am, but the whole mentality of the school is messing with everyone. And I mean everyone. Some teachers are genuinely really caring and really want the best for you. I’m lucky because I’ve had teachers like that. Some teachers couldn’t care less if you passed or failed, and will never take excused, no matter how reasonable the excuse is. In terms of public schools, I’d say this is a decent public school, but I’ve seen such disgusting things here, and experienced such nasty bullying from such bitchy people. If you got the money, choose private. No one cares about the education. Everyone cares about random shit like gossip and stuff.
This school is only good for robots
Moved to Australia, and started year 8 here. I’ve had the worst experience, there is zero support for new students, like nothing at all, no teacher support or resources to understand the system. I was a straight A student before coming here and got my first D only because I didn’t know when the test was and didn’t have a tutor. Another thing I hated, since this school is filled with Asians, we all relu on tutors instead of the teacher. Which then disadvantages students like me who need the teacher to explain stuff. And anther thing, if you think there’ll be no/ less racism as an Asian just cuz there’s all Asians here then you’re so wrong. In fact, I’ve heard people from a diff country call someone else a slur or exclude on the basis of ethnicity. Moreover there’s a huge bullying issue here, it’s not evident since it’s internal bullying such as exclusion or calling names out of class where the teachers won’t notice. As if the teachers would do anything, I remember experiencing this and never getting any support. I was just told to “focus on my studies” and was given a counsellor who did nothing really but I don’t blame them. The school doesn’t believe in mental health, never supported the wellbeing centre we have, doesn’t really do anything to support students.
However, I’ve met some of the best people here, now my closest friends, it took me a while (3 years) to find my way here and blend in. The school promotes studying nothing else, not even sport or performing arts. It’s just for science, maths, or tech. Senior school teachers I’ve had are the best at giving support and resources and I think it’s important for a teacher to support their students and even the school to provide mental support. Instead they’re producing mindless workers with burnout and severe depression. I could never be proud of this school, sorry..
However, I’ve met some of the best people here, now my closest friends, it took me a while (3 years) to find my way here and blend in. The school promotes studying nothing else, not even sport or performing arts. It’s just for science, maths, or tech. Senior school teachers I’ve had are the best at giving support and resources and I think it’s important for a teacher to support their students and even the school to provide mental support. Instead they’re producing mindless workers with burnout and severe depression. I could never be proud of this school, sorry..
13-21 O'Sullivan Road, 3150, Glen Waverley
Joanne Wastle
03 8805 6700
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