Robbie Groves

Review of Outwood Academy Ripon

A few good teachers but some others remind me of t...

A few good teachers but some others remind me of the schustzstaffel. its almost like they want to punish you and waste your time as if they get enjoyment from it. the school is comparable to prison, you are locked in behind spiked fences and forced to attend, lining us up after lunch to tell us when we can leave to lesson and extremely strict teachers akin to prison wardens. the school poses as outstanding and great but that was 2016 and a lot has changed. the consequence system seems old and outdated and doesn't seem to be working well. detentions can almost always contain 20+ students a day. There is a sort of student council that involves elections in which nobody truly wins. one student was removed from his campaign for acting in self defence despite having the best policies and easily the most fit person for the job and instead another student won and as far as i can tell has done nothing positive for the school so far. i have spent over 3 years at the school and it has definitely gotten worse over time. i do not recommend the school but it is unlikely any other will be better.

Edit: I made this review a bit ago when i was slightly more mad at the school. My comments were over the top especially comparing the SLT to the SS, as the SS at least had a cool uniform and actually did some stuff that made a difference to the world. I do however stand by the other comments i made on the consequences system (although the 30 min detentions are welcome), the ofsted results and the student voice elections. Despite the latter being a stupid ploy to make students feel they are making a difference.
Overall maybe it was an overreaction but to be young i guess.

Death To The Communists
Sincerely,
Roberto