Whangaparaoa College

Welp, it's-a me, Peppino Spaghetti. I came into this school and it is terrible. The teachers repeat the same thing every year, so you just learn (you barely learn anything important) the same thing every year. The device rules are so dumb, no phones in class, but you allow tablets and laptops? And don't even get me started on the bathrooms, there are CAMERAS in the bathrooms. CAMERAS. Even though there are cameras, there is still pee all over the floor. I hope you feel like smelling for the rest of the day and being called "smell-person". This also links to the amount of BULLYING in this school, I swear, this school is just full of bullies. The only good thing I can think of are some of the teachers, and most of them are just BAD. The only good teachers we have are the ACG ones, and we barely get to have ACG for more than 20 minutes because of the stupid assemblies. The school decides to have an assembly every Wednesday 3rd period (which is when we have a 1-hour long ACG period), and it hurts every bone in my body due to having to sit down in an uncomfortable position while being squished by all the people around you. And when we DO have ACG, the assembly is probably in the 30-minute mark of ACG. The uniform policy is so stupid too, any type of clothing without the school's logo on it, you're out. You literally can't wear anything non-WGP branded, or you get sent to the dean. If you want to feel like you're in a prison, come on down to WGP College.

2 stars for this school is being generous. If you really need to go to a school, look for any OTHER school first before deciding to come here.

I hate this school so so so so so so much.

This school is bad, aside from friends and supportive people, some of the teachers direct a group of people or someone that they are bothered mostly on. There are so many bullies, mean girls, disrespect and pathetic people. Honestly the teachers do nothing about it and just say ''sort it out'' only a few amount of teachers are good. Some of the teachers explain what to do but lots of them say ''just do that'' and do not actually explain it properly, you can't expect us students to just know. Also the toilets are disgusting and smell like piss, I would not want to go to some toilet with students just pissing on the floor like wth. Now lets get onto some of the students, disrespectful, mean, pure bullies. Other students can be angels and nice or decant.

this school is traumatizing

I know it's different now since covid 19 has affected learning but during my time at wgp college (2013-2019) I found that if I focused and listened then most of the time I'd be doing well except for a few bad relationships with teachers who seemed to have blatant favoritism with groups of students, being more relaxed and lenient with them while being strict and harsh with others.

Bullying isn't physically a huge issue, most arguments and disagreements do not end up physically but there was certainly a toxic environment.
During 2019, the head girl was put in charge of approving dresses for the school dance and she had uploaded confidental photos of a learner in a dress to her social media making fun of it.

Additionally, our school made the news when a video was spread of teenagers wearing the school uniform physically beating another girl

I have had many bullying experiences however they do nothing about it. I also have experienced bad teaching methods and teachers. There are also students smoking vaping and other things but they do nothing.