Hyde Park High School

THIS SCHOOL..THE LEARNERS,IT ALL CHANGES YOU

I and many upon arrival at Hyde park in grade 8 were innocent children who enjoyed life as normal kids and enjoyed school and fun activities…

But you don’t stay like that for long,oftently most learners start changing around grade 9 -10 that good,kind innocent boy/girl who was first excited to come to the school falls into a dark pit that’s hard to crawl out.

I definitely know what I’m talking about because I too have been a victim of peer pressure.it starts with the first pull in the toilets which you don’t like at first until you try it again and by the third time it’s already a habit(vaping)the biggest problem in the school students casually vape in class while the teacher is distracted it’s become a casual thing it feels normal at this point

Vaping devices are being passed to each other on corridors,in classes (oftenly when a learner says that they want to take something from their friend in a class and the teacher allows them it’s 10/10 a vape that they are either asking for or returning.90% of learners vape in the school it’s a sad reality

Weed is also another big problem..there’s a place outside the school with a bustop called 9th rd it’s notorious for weed smokers after school

I remember the first day I walked in there and was welcomed and got high for the first time,I greatly regret that day as it has left me with an addiction that I’m tackling alone

You can still take your child to this school but monitor them and arrange transport this thing of walking home is how most of us fell into drugs

This is a horrible school. If you care and love your children, do not send them here. This school is full of smokers and rude teachers. If you a school/ teacher’s favourite you get away with anything. If not the teachers single you out and pick on you. I hate this school and honestly wish I never came here, I highly do not recommend this school to anyone!!

Firstly i would like to address the fact that most of the teachers dont care about teaching the slower learners it is more about helping smarter students when asking teachers for help most of the replies would be to learn more at home and they would refuse to help me . The school also has a massive drug problem with most culprits still in school.
I do not at all recomend anybody to attend this school unless you want to develop mental health issues and anxiety.Kids who report issues regarding teachers will get ostrisized and treated badly by the teachers.The sports facilitys are good thats why i gave it a 2 star.

I am a parent to a learner who has schooled in Hyde Park Highschool. I would start of by saying it has the potential to be a good school but unfortunately Hyde Park Highschool does not take such interest. Starting off with education, the education system isn't really top-tier as the school claims so, instead the curriculum is good but the teachers don't provide quality education to the learners. The teachers are lazy and constantly sitting on their phones instead of teaching. My son would come home every week with huge work loads which most of he didn't understand because the teachers don't teach. I would feel sorry for him, i contacted the school several times to check on my son's progress, until the school kept blocking my calls and emails. The teachers make learners write 3 tests almost everyday. The teachers care more about the learner's appearance than academic performance. I understand it's been a really difficult year but instead of punishing young girls for wearing leggings where else you could punish the boys for sexual assault on school grounds! There is an embarrassing amount of thieves, drinkers and drug dealers. I remember coming in for a meeting, i smelt weed coming from the matric corridor. Learners physically fight everyday, teachers do nothing. The office administrator is racist especially to POC. Hyde Park High claims to help learners develop and "prepares them for the world" unfortunately those claims are purely false, the school teaches our children to smoke, drink, and do drugs. The school bathrooms are neat and clean. Teachers sometimes miss lessons to sit in the teacher's lounge drinking coffee. There are teachers who swear at learners for the littlest thing such as forgetting their books. The school doesn't provide a balance of fun and work, for learners and instead keeps learners working everyday even on the weekends. The school has a handful of racist and homophobic teachers. This school does not care about treating learners as individuals.It is racist, sexist and treats their students unfairly. Only students who are teachers favourties get treated nicely. If you aren’t a teachers favourite they will go out of their way just to make your school years a living hell, not to mention their rules are outdated and most of them are purely ridiculous. Some students can’t even go to the bathroom without one of the security guards following them into the bathroom thinking they going to do stuff, talk about no privacy at all. In the school magazine and on all social media’s they make it seem like they are the best school with fair discipline and a perfect school in general, they THINK they the best school in South Africa but in reality, they catfish all the parents. They give unnecessary punishments for stuff that isn’t even relevant, the teachers will give Detentions for useless stuff e.g if your jacket/Blazer isn’t on during a hot day you get detention. I could go on and on, with sporting it is compulsory for Gr8s to swim even if they don’t know how to, they are forced to swim in a race, that is not the way schools should promote sports. The school doesn't care about the learner's mental health,the school criticizes learners for being homosexual, depressed and a POC.

Ummm so when I first got there, the teachers were really helpful but during my second year the higher students in class got more attention by teachers more than struggling students and the teachers barely teach the whole class but rather higher students I felt useless.

The teachers help a lot, some are rude like ** ******and another teacher.
The learners are shit😂😂😂
They flirt with our girlz then leave us in the dark.
They don't back you up
Mara the school is mooi overall but sometimes there's unecessary drama.

I regret going to this school. I wont recommend anyone to take their children there

This isn't by far one of the best schools but has the potential to be. The school lacks in respect towards teachers and students. Full of smokers and people who drink. Students have lack of respect to one another and teachers have no respect to students. Some teachers are amazing but they is a handful of them. School doesn't do anything to people who smoke or disobey the rules because most of them are still in the school and not expelled.

Honestly Hyde park is the worst. I honestly can’t stand it anymore. People in that school including the teachers are so harsh and they tent to bully or even harass you. It is stereotypical and rude and they never treat people as an individual it’s always a group. We as children were supposed to grow as a person not as a group we were supposed to be learning right from wrong not being force fed information and throwing it all up on a piece of paper. The school also says that they don’t have money and so on but the school itself is horrid. But the teachers lounge is top of their priorities. I can never stay. I’m glad I’m leaving hyde park high school and moving next year

First off the school forgets to mention a lot of key factors like the fact there are thieves, way too many smokers and a fair share of drinkers in the student body, if you're like me that bit was fun but if you're not it'll annoy you to no end that constant drug tests are done but most of the culprits are still in the school and also the fact there sometimes seems to be a lack of consideration for students from the teachers. Certain teachers honestly lack the skills academically and skills to teach teenagers that need a balance of fun and work. I would've given it a 3 star evens but truth be told i hated going to HPHS and those will always be some if the worst years of my life.