Gene Louw Primary School

Gene Louw Primary caters to all parents and all children. This double medium primary school in Durbanville practises Christian principles.

Isn't it lovely that they named an Afrikaans school after South Africa's first coloured provincial administrator.

I think it's lovely that the school was named after Durbanville's first coloured mayor.

This school is run by certain parents and their kids get preference more than others, your child's welfare is not a commitment to the school my kids where here after 3 years i had enough every teacher just wants kids on medication and don't discipline those with parent preference, bullying is a huge factor as well as lack of good sport education, very dissapointed with this terrible school

Please don't let this school fool you. It's been seven years since I've been out of this school, I'm turning twenty this year and still, after all these years, I think back to my time here with a terrifying shudder that snakes up my spine. The teachers appear to come off as wonderfully supportive and positive yet that was never carried over in the classroom. My Grade 3 teacher would bully me to no end, constantly screaming my ear off for being a creative soul and who couldn't do math. My Grade 5 teachers, both register and math, would also bully me in class by making fun of me for (once again) not being able to do math. That same year I was diagnosed with the learning disability dyscalculia, which overtook my life like you wouldn't believe. Even with that knowledge publicly declared to both the vice principal and my educators I was still made fun of, recieving detention after detention. I eventually had to learn how to lie which ended up turning me into the bad guy. Because of these teachers bullying me the students went along with it, turning into physical, mental and emotional abuse. The amount of times I'd come forward telling my teacher about the boys who'd beat me up which ended up being turned away with a simple "they'd never do that" was totally staggering to me, both as a child and now as an adult. My Grade 7 teacher would rip my drawings out from underneath my desk and shred them up, throwing them into the bin or forcing me to shamefully throw them away myself while I sobbed. I'd get thrown out the class, made fun of by her behind my back to my classmates (which I had to learn through my best friend who was also in the class). There was a bullying situation that happened in Grade 7 with me and two other girls in my class which ended up with us getting falsely accused for something someone else did. The teachers refused to believe us when we said it wasn't us and had a vote amongst the classes on who they thought it would more than likely be. As well as this, my Grade 7 teacher withheld my end of year report. We were away at the time, sent our address and even still she never sent it. Eventually we had to fetch it ourselves. It was a wonder how I got into high school. Please reconsider sending your child here. Also, they favor their Afrikaans students over the English ones and it's very obvious. TL;DR: This school sucks and the teachers are abusive.

Have been walking road with school going for 4 years now.... The support, personal attention and feedback helping through difficult times... My girl is not just a number... Taking are to match kids to teachers for next grade to prevent those inevitable personality clashes as they grow older and find their own voice!! Thank you Gene Louw team for all the care and nurture!!