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Student
Sep 9, 2025

vce vm

QKThr - Aphex Twin

Sunbury Downs College might just be the saddest place you can send your child. This is proved by the poor infrastructural choices, menacing rules as well as despicable people who manifest the most undesirable culture. The form and source of this text is a formal essay written by a direct firsthand victim of this monstrosity, also written to all parents and students searching for asylum at an educational ground. The language used to depict these arguments will be sourced from a wide range of vocabulary given it remains respectful and true. The tone of this text will be rather unsettling and gormless, much like the individuals at SDC. The purpose of this essay is to influence the future considerations and choices of the audience and prevent the mental health of children from further deterioration.

Firstly, the poor infrastructural choices greatly impact the SDC experience negatively. The school is so poor that some coon has authorized for the portables to "upgrade" into stackables because stacking temporary rooms on top of each other is somehow more efficient than building real classrooms. With thousands of dollars granted a few years back, surely we can pay for sustainable classrooms, buy edible foods for the canteen or even hire competent teachers, maybe, perchance... but noooo, what better way to spend your money than to rip up a functional basketball court so it can be rebuilt in the iconic SDC colors. Diabolical. Another example of poor choices displayed by the SDC community is the uniform quality selection. It doesn't matter what combination of red, blue and white you pair together, it will be an absolute sweat box in the summer and contain 0% insulation in the winter. As for security, the school was broken into by minors twice in one week; and surprise, surprise, the SDC community is backed up by Melton Security. Yes, Melton... what can be safer than relying on security provided by the least safe suburb of Northwest Melbourne. At least the school values are displayed, very ambitious. On top of that, the bathrooms that were recently renovated, are constantly out of order... if you can get to them before your bladder combusts. That brings me to my next point.

Secondly, the rules and regulations expected by students strongly contribute to the unsettling culture of Sunbury Downs College. Following on from my previous argument, you're lucky to arrive to the bathrooms safely with your pants unstained as SDC has recently enforced a strict regime, because student's bathroom schedules are extremely important and must be regulated at every minute. Not to mention that in the midst of a crazy shortage of teachers, there are staff who are constantly monitoring bathrooms like a pack of almond moms shielding their children from a bunnings snag. On top of that, the attendance of all students is completely inaccurate; I personally missed at least 2 weeks of school, but attendance is still at 100% for 3 subjects... interesting. Many individuals suggest this is the result of the lack of students passing in the VCE and VCE-VM classes, causing the school to bump up the attendance of every student for no apparent reason. However, this theory is unconfirmed as there are many possibilities and many more questions unanswered. Another example of this is that most students don't receive the subjects required for future careers, resulting in large numbers of dropouts in year 11. Most of these numbers come from a VCE -VM blended class where SDC has decided to experiment on students who like money but aren't academically declined enough to qualify for a traditional VCE-VM class. While some rules are strict, other regulations involving the requirement to pass year 11 and 12 are explained but aren't fully transparent. For example, higher positions of staff have quoted, "you need to be here 90% of the time to pass," however students who do nearly no coursework and show up to school 2 days a week can bat their lashes and immediately pass for the year. All these references further prove that Sunbury Downs College is the saddest place you can send your child.

Lastly, the heinous individuals who continuously manifest an unfortunate racist, sexist and authoritative culture makes Sunbury Downs Collage the saddest place to send your child. Communication doesn't exist beyond sexual harassment and occasional detentions. Personal space? What's that? While analyzing the staff, there are very few competent teachers, I appreciate the selective few who do their job. Others either don't know the content they're teaching, how to teach at all or hate children. There are also some teachers who like children, specifically year 8 girls, a little too much, maybe, perchance. They're hiring anyone these days, as long as they have the confidence to achieve, I guess. Vaping around the school, students getting bashed nearly daily, being shoved into lockers and the use of the most diabolical racial slurs are okay, but wearing black socks is the biggest code red violation in all the history of Sunbury Downs College. The median IQ in all staff and students is beyond ghastly, and the emotional intelligence is utterly shocking. You could fit all our collective brain cells in a tablespoon at best. These credits all point to the many reasons why SDC is the saddest place to send your child.

In conclusion, Sunbury Downs College is by far the worst possible option amongst all places to send your child for reasons varying from infrastructure to regulations to the overall culture of the school. For the past number of years, I have searched with all my might yet failed to find more than five souls who possess a reasonable level of human decency. This school might just have every knob in Sunbury gathered in one place.
Former Student
Jun 18, 2024

no just no

i went to this school for a year and a term, but had to move schools because the teachers made you feel useless and stupid, they never listen to you if u need help with anything, dont go here unless wanna have depression
Student
Jun 9, 2023

Very acceptable

I'm seeing a few year 7's in here, and they are definitely missing the point. I'm not saying this school is perfect by any means, however it does what it needs to to produce successful people. If you can get along with these teachers, it becomes much more enjoyable and easier to have the right support for your schooling.
There are many facilities inclusive of everyone and their policies go along with them very well. It's an organised school with lots of opportunities for students to look towards the future.
Student
May 21, 2023

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Horrible horrible teachers I got sent out class because I called a girl she, under same girl she's Hit Me Kicked me Me punched me and she is not got sent out once what wrong with school they overreact about small issues but they don't care about the big issues they get upset if you call someone by the wrong pronoun , school could be fine but the teachers are mean nasty controlling and overreacting all the time I walked into class like normal and the teacher starts screaming at me to go throw out my food I didn't come into class with food get didn't even apologise for screaming and accusing me of something but didn't even happen got suspension warnings because I told a girl to stop barking at me.
The teacher's don't let you go to the bathroom unless you finished all your work and by the time you finish your work about 15 minutes left of class and they tell you to wait till lunch, the teacher don't put one bit of trust in student at all it's honestly annoying , the schools fine the teachers just ruin it, cateen is overpriced
Student
May 21, 2023

HORRIBLE 🤮

Absolutely horrible being at that school is horrible ,most of the teacher are mean,harsh,nasty to students ,teacher overreact over every little issue but when it comes to big issues they don't care at all,teacher are awful (most) they think yell at you for no reason ,canteen is rlly overpriced as well/bad school /horrible mean nasty controlling teachers
Student
May 16, 2023

Sunbury downs

The teachers expect so much of you and the obviously have favourites I am in year 7 and they gave me a packet of homework on the first day

But the people in the office are nice and very helpful and supportive
148 - 174 Mitchells Lane, 3429, Sunbury
Warwick Beynon
03 9744 0500

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