Karratha Senior High School

As a student, there’s a lot of flaws in this school. First off, the jumper rule—you have to strictly wear the schools jumper if you want to wear a jumper. It’s bulky, and I’m not spending 30$ on something that I’m only using for less than a year since I’m a senior. Even then, apparently you can trade something off for a jumper, in most cases—your own cellular device. How ridiculous is that? They’d rather you freeze to death than wear something that the school makes you pay $30 for. Warmth is a privilege in winter. During summer, I think the uniforms don’t do much and even make things worse. Black uniforms suck, they absorb the heat and you can clearly tell they didn’t think things through before designing it. Teachers are okay, but they can be hypocritical. I’ve only known 1 teacher that is actually helpful. You guys praise mental health, doing mental health campaigns but the truth is—you don’t really care. I think it’s stupid that when a student reports another student for having suicidal thoughts, tendencies, or ideations, you decide to phone home. It’s not well thought of, and sometimes people feel that way because of their homes. The students aren’t any good either. Most of them bully you for being different even in the slightest way. If you aren’t afraid to be yourself, they’ll target you. It’s miserable. I had someone be racist to me over something small, and was very passive aggressive towards me. They had a small little group that just kept giggling at every racist remark he said. Overall, this school sucks. The environment, the teachers, the students—it all sucks. It’s only bearable if you have friends.

As a student, its not all that bad at KSHS, but I do have some issues with the system: 1. Allowing rude things to be said and telling victims/witnesses to 'be nice' Eg. A classmate was being transphobic, my friend provided them simple logic on how its normal, and the teacher just said to stand down and be nice 2. Teachers who abuse their authority. Almost nothing is done and some of these teachers are still here. One of which gets mad when someone calls her out on her behaviour, she had that student moved. Another teacher would also scream at students in the face for not being perfect. 3. Mental health awareness. I want to see more focus being drawn to that because I know so many students who have mental issues, including me, that want others to learn to stop being insensitive and actually know its not something to joke about. Also bullying and harassment need to actually have consequences instead of defending THE BULLY. Those are my main concerns, overall its a pretty fun school and most people here are great

As a student, its a pretty good school but I wish they'd take some things more seriously. Things like mental health, more education of diversity (because so many carry misinformation that can involve say the LGBTQIA+ Community). I would also want them to handle authority figures who abuse their power and actually do something about those kinds of teachers and staff. Lastly, to actually do something about harassment and bullying more than worrying about their grades or what small argument happened in a friend group. Thats all I have to say, the rest is quite fun

Teachers can’t teach, the school is unsafe, the school doesn’t have a canteen open, ridiculous expectations , teachers are dump, people hate going there, it’s falling apart, under construction, way too hot, needs better aircon, better activities, better accessibility to resources, more group support, needs to look after environment