Roosevelt High School

This school is the worst. The uniform regulations are absolute butthole. Like you get detention if your hair is above a certain height and if you don’t have a gradual fade, or if you don’t have something you’re supposed to have on like your name tag for example or even for the smallest thing wrong about your uniform like a boy not having a belt for example and the detention is on Fridays and you do a test that if you get less than 80%, you have repeat detention the next Friday. You also get detention for being late, the teachers are just mean, most of them are. There’s this one teacher whom I absolutely hate, he’s a bully and doesn’t consider our feelings as students, it’s not like we deserve respect anyways since we’re just a bunch of worthless teenagers. The rules have relaxed slightly ever since the previous principal left but one thing that hasn’t changed is the phone policy. We can’t bring our phones to school, and if we want to, we have to rent a cellphone locker. So this school is not only (probably) racist, unnecessarily strict and has teachers who crawled out from the deepest depths of hell, they’re also capitalist and don’t care about what happens to us after school, it ain’t their problem anymore, if you’re stuck at school without a phone, then damn, sucks for you. Girls’ hair has to be tied up as well, and as another reviewer said, very unnecessary, unless the hair reaches the butt, then it shouldn’t be a problem and there’ve also been some racist happenings which I won’t mention here and some homophobic ones too. So if you hate your child or if they’re misbehaving or something, this school is for you, but if you love them, consider schools like Greenside or Northcliff. The administration here just doesn’t understand teenage psychology and forgot they were once teenagers as well.

P.S. the tuck shop is overpriced as heck

There’s a few things I didn’t mention but the review is too long and there’s a lot I have to say so this is all you need to know I guess.

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I was called in to sign an acceptance letter for my daughter grade8 2025. On arrival to the school I was told a R4000 need to be paid like today if that not paid then I can't sign the letter why was this not told to me on the phone. So I have 2 daughters who I want to put in the school and the amount now becomes R8000. Who has that type of money in the middle of the month. And why is it I'm not even told I can pay it off. I'm a single father only trying to give the best to my 2 girls. The school was no help at all. I then also asked if I could apply for a subsidy they said forms only get issued February 2025. Why call me in and get my hopes up and then when getting there it's just money.

That school is full of racism , teachers always pick on black students

This school is just bad. Teachers are racist and rude for no reason. They care more about the uniform than they care about the education. We sit on the quad for not wearing our flag badge? So you are telling me a badge is more important then me gaining any knowledge? As a student I definitely recommend some other school. The amount of unnecessary actions this school takes is just ridiculous. We have to take the same bags and this then comes to us losing our bags because of mix ups. Although this school has decent facilities , i would not in a million years recommend this school

Anyone looking to come to Roosevelt. Don't. As a teenager and young adult you need to be able to grow and develop and figure life out while mainting good academics. Roosevelt maintains good academics but at the cost of a loss of self image and is an oppressed environment where students are bullied by the head staff. Students are treated as if they are students in the military.

The schools not all great, some teachers are racist and get angry at the smallest things. They never have any fun activities and I feel like the learners are over worked.