Bethlehem College
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Go to SchoolParrot for Schools- Student1.013 October 2025
Do not come to this school
The school says it’s excellent through Christ but it is absolutely not we only do it Christian studies like once every week. Ur not allowed to wear some pants and the teachers do jack about bully’s if u don’t wear ur hat in a gray sky u get detention. I had a broken leg and they forced me to do cross country. The education is really bad for the money you pay. Do not come to this school it is a dissapointment waste of money.
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- Student1.06 September 2024
Very bad school
Very very bad school do me a favour and dont let your kid go to this school. The teachers are just very rude and all the students are stupid. Once on bus a 8 year old boy vaped. Imagine your kid vaping because someone told them to. ? Over all very very bad school the teachers a stupid and touch girls. Highly dont recommend.
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- Other5.026 March 2024
Love this school!
Kids love the school! Teachers are great, love the feeling around the campus. No complaints ?
- Former Student5.031 August 2023
Former Student & Parent
Excellent School. The teachers go above and beyond to encourage and allow students learn and grow as individuals. I really appreciated having the ability to explore and ask questions about Christianity while at BC. My kids love school which can't be said for all children! Highly recommend.
- Student5.029 June 2023
Good school
Good school that allowed me to learn without needing to worry about other pressures that exist much more prevalently at other schools in Tauranga.
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- Former Student2.01 June 2023
Students are great but too much bias/racism
First with the good things. The students were generally very nice and welcoming, and making friends were quite easy and I enjoyed hanging out with them and taking classes with them. However, with that being said, the teachers were very lacklustre in terms of their quality of teaching. Some teachers also seemed very biased and hypocritical. Also sometimes they put their beliefs/religion first over the learning that students get. For example, in biology when we are learning about evolution, teachers tend to try and avoid the topic or sometimes make the class awkward in way by saying "well thats what some people believe in but actually God created us" Overall, my experience at this school was quite mediocre and definitely failed my expectation going into my senior years
- Student3.014 March 2023
It’s not hell
As a semi private religious school it has its benefits and downsides as do all.
- Student2.04 March 2023
My experience with Bethlehem college
I’ve experienced racism a lot throughout my years of attending Bethlehem College it is not a school for cultured kids, I’ve gotten talked down upon by teachers, students and even parents of students that attend BC the community is divided and now since they have removed the normal kgroup a that consisted of yr 10-13 you do not get to experience friendships with other kids in the different year levels
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- Student1.02 March 2023
Bc is bad
The school it horrible. The don't care about the students.
- Student1.02 December 2022
Do NOT send your kids here
Not good. Very slow to enact any change, forces its beliefs down everyone's throats, and as if that weren't bad enough the bullying is insane. They will not do jackshit about bullies and will specifically request for students not to tell their families about it, while continuing to do nothing. If you want a sexist, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic, bible-thumping science-denying school then this is the place for you. There was a teacher who was caught red-handed refusing to teach the curriculum because he didn't believe the earth was more than 6,000 years old, and believed that dinosaura lived with humans and in fact still lived to this day in Africa, and he got to keep his job. I, a student, had a debate with him and got him to proudly admit none of his sources were peer-reviewed. If you value education, look elsewhere.