Bloemhof Hoërskool

Im a gr.9 student and i can say with great pride that this a school where any girl can flourish. i firstly want to adress the rumours; there are scarce conservative and old teachers,Bloemhof truly has the best of the best teachers who are as kind as can be. They can openly joke around with you and be there for you,whilst being strict enough that you will still respect them. Secondly Bloemhof is not as hellish as it is out to be; part of every highschool there will be someone who will be mean to you or bully you,but there are psychologists,teachers and koshuismoeders who WILL be there for you. What is true is the perfect bloemhof box;good grades,a-team is only good enough all that,but it makes me driven,i went from e-team to c and my grades went up. I have made so much memories wiith all the susterskap,geea en liefde in die skool.

Conservative, racist, ableist, queerphobic, sexist, extremist, elitist. Will never send my children to this awful, awful place.

I don't know how long I will be able to stay in this school after writing this review. I know for a fact that I am not happy and I never was. They show their lack of support for marginalized communities by the fact that there are no wheelchair accessible entrances for disabled people to use, AT ALL. This has been a massive problem for years, despite the fact that there have been wheelchair users who went to this school in the past. All of your school fees will go towards making the building comfortable for the teachers or personnel (I'm talking specifically about the room where students aren't allowed to enter). And what I find extremely ironic is the toilet for wheelchair users, of which all the entrances or paths to it are completely inaccessible by wheelchair. There are no ramps or ways to get near it. So I'm sorry Bloemhof if you wanted to brag or seem caring through the one inaccessible wheelchair toilet in the building, but that's certainly not the way to be inclusive. If you aren't Christian, straight, cisgender, neurotypical, abled, or simply don't follow or live the typical white Afrikaans Christian ways of living, then you most likely will never be happy in this place. This school really showed me the horrible, cult-like side of Christianity, and it stripped me of my humanity and dreams. And it's not the amount of work that's the problem. It's the toxic environment. I feel like because of the lack of support I have received throughout my whole high school life, I have missed out on many years that were supposed to be filled with joy. A classmate of mine was recently forced to drop out of this place due to the lack of support there was for them as an autistic person. If you do not fit any of the descriptions I have mentioned before, you will not be happy in this place.

This school broke me as a person and personally felt like a 24/7 hellish institution I was forced into for 5 years. It’s run by old, conservative, white entitled (mostly) woman. Could write an essay on this but in short, if you don’t fit in this category I wouldn’t recommend it.

I completed my highschool edication here, from grade 8-12. This school is PERFECT for white, afrikaans, conservative Christian ladies. It helps to be either very smart, very good at sports or very good at debate. If you are not excellent or fit into any of these groups, welcome to hell. This school will be hell for you for 5 years if you do not conform to these specifications. This school sees any mental health issues as problematic and they just kick you out. If you do not excel, you are useless. Think twice before you let the amazing academics and sports programs fool you.

i can write a book about how toxic, insecure breeding and awful bloemhof is. this school takes away who you are, completely. the teachers are awful, they are all old and conservative with no sense modern thinking. every morning i went to school it felt like i was going to prison, no joke. i used to cry about going to school at night. there is no room for being yourself, no room for giving your opinion, no room to go through a rough time, and most of all, no room to grow. since grade 8 the school pushed me into a bloemhof perfect afrikaans girl box. it got to a point that people looking to send their girls to bloemhof would ask me about the school and what i love about it or whats good about it that i couldn’t name a single thing. not the vibe, not the sport, not the kids, not the teachers, not the building, not breaktime, not art periods, not 4m, not the tuckshop, not off periods, not a favorite teacher because there were none. i hated this school. it wrecked me from happiness for years until i could no longer take it and i left. if you’re considering going to bloemhof, do yourself a favor and don’t <3