"my 6 years in henry park primary school were like riding a bike except the bike was on fire and everything was on fire because i was in hell. as part of the most recent batch of graduates, i think that my insight into this school’s situation would be valuable for any parents wanting to send their children here.
firstly, the teachers all either had anger issues or could not teach. in this case my science teacher was both because she would always spend half the class scolding us about our poor performance on the worksheet and then turn around and complain about how we had such little time left. maybe if you spent your valuable time actually educating us instead of chastising us our performance would have been better?? just a suggestion though 🤷‍♂️ the worst instance of this was when she got so angry that she stomped out of the class halfway through and sent some poor kid from the other class to inform us of her current whereabouts. (she expected us to go after her, mind you) of course no one wanted to go and chase after her because i think we would all be better off without somebody none of us could stand, but since the head prefect was in our class he made us go and chase after her. once we actually got to the lift lobby she got even angrier and told all of us except the assistant head prefect to go back to class since “he was the only one who had the dignity to apologize”?? you signed up for this idk why ur getting so angry. look i understand wanting the audience to give you your due respect when ur talking but you literally threw a whole adult tantrum over a bunch of 12 year old children.
my english teacher probably had a vendetta against me because of a certain incident i will not talk about, but since i was good at the subject she did not have a reason to pick on me. she was good at teaching us, but not a good teacher because she played favorites, which is not inherently bad but she also played least favourites. these unlucky students would always get picked on because of silly things like handwriting, but honestly i don’t think she really cared about handwriting, she just hated them for existing.
this is not the only instance of the school failing to take the proper steps for their students well-being, as in my class only, there was 1 kid who tried to jump off the 7th floor staircase and another who lied their way out of counselling which they definitely needed. after PSLE, the boys in my class would also congregate and watch literal pornography at one of their houses???
speaking of PSLE, this school is also really really competitive. i don’t know if this was because i was in a GEP class, but everyone around me was perpetually comparing themselves to everyone else. there was this time where one guy in my class broke down because he got an al2 instead of al1 for his prelim so that was kinda weird. it was literally so competitive in there so if your kid will thrive in there, great! if your kid does not do well in a competitive environment please do not send your child here. also the prefects in my school literally were so immature and did not do anything ever. now that i am in secondary school with a functioning student council i realise that the prefectorial board was lowkey full of bums, especially the head prefect who was way more interested in hating gay people than doing his job.
overall 5/10 school, the teachers probably hated all of us and never wanted to be here (case and point all the good teachers resigning this year) and the students are just really mentally unwell. would not recommend unless ur a really big fan of academic rival romance and hating yourself.
p.s someone peed in the 6th floor girls toilet.."
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