Roosevelt High School

Good day 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.

Administration is the worst, I applied for admission in August 2022 and was told that I should get feedback by Dec which obviously did not happen. Each time I call to follow up on my application around Dec I was told to call the following week which I did and each week would be call the following week uo until the schools closed. Today is the 6th of January 2023 and schools are opening in 4 days time for the new academic year: I still do not have a response on whether my child was accepted or not. Do they not think about the parents and kids and that we can not be informed 2 days before schools open of the outcome? So disappointed

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

It's just a bad school lol

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.

This school is so boring. And some of the teacher have attitudes for no reason and call kids “problematic” - then have the audacity to blame the kids for talking whilst to to them then goes on their phone.

in terms of academics and sports the school is great, but when it comes to the code of conduct its just no.Their rules are ridiculous and it doesn't allow us to express ourselves. The girls aren't allowed to wear pants in summer, all the grade 8-10s have to use this ugly bag that looks like a cooler box and it's so big so imagine. The boys aren't allowed to wear ties in summer and yet it looks so neat and the summer uniform looks untidy. The girls aren't allowed to leave their hair loose which I think is also pointless. ALSO the one thing I think everyone agrees is the worst one of all is that we're not allowed to bring our phones to school so what if we having transport issues after school?? and also the teacher aren't allowed to phone our parents either so if we have transport issues we'll be stuck at school until who knows when

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.

This school is good in terms of education, but they tend to do unnecessary things that have nothing to do with learning such as making the learners wear the same bag(which I think is unethical because the bags can get mixed up or lost... they are also not good quality bags). The school also has very strict uniform rules that dont allow girls to wear pants in the summer, even when it's really cold. All in all though its not a bad school, it just doesn't give the learners a chance to think for themselves and prove their capabilities.