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Brackenfell Hoërskool
High School · Public · Cape Town
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A school with a range of different activities and opportunities for each learner.
Best chance in life
This school always strives to give its learners the best chance in life. They are always open to trying new things, as long as it is in the best interest of the learner. Kudos to you BHS.
Thank you
Love the school. Life is hard. Choose your hard. If it is hard to do the right thing, you will find things hard. But if you work hard, the hard evidence will be visible and you will bare the fruit.
Thank you Brackenfell High School, for creating a safe haven for our children.
Thank you Brackenfell High School, for creating a safe haven for our children.
The school is down bad.
It's the racism between learner's, educators and staff for me chile. They teach us, English learners in Afrikaans, all announcements are always in Afrikaans, when the market the school, it looks as if it there are no people of colour but just white people(I say this in the most non disrespecting way). I'd you don't do hockey or rugby, you're not noticed or acknowledged. The principal really does not listen to any of the learner's concerns about what's going on in school. It's just not a happy or healthy environment. That place is just emotionally draining.
Transgender medical suport needs help
Transgender awareness!!!!!
This school is so strict like i can't
They dont even have a transgender medical suport system
They dont even have a transgender medical suport system
Altio Spero❤
There are some ups and some downs in this school. Racism is an issue amongst ALL of the students. whites, blacks and coloreds, Brackenfell does try to be a good school and prevent racism but not always. For every amazing teacher theres an equally awful teacher, the teachers will help you if they see you need help but if you dont ask you wont get. The coaches are always looking for new players in ALL the sports. Brackenfell is a school you should go to if you want to have fum while learning where you want your life to go. I cant say ive had the best experience in the school but thats not the schools fault. In all honesty I'm happy that I chose Brackenfell and not another school. Even though the teachers always take my entjies they still care about us and will try to help but again, everything depends on the reputation you make for yourself.
Once a brakkie, always a brakkie.
I matriculated in 2019 and can honestly say that I loved my 5 year experience in BHS. The teachers were amazing, they pushed us to reach new heights academically and in any sport we wanted to pursue. The school treats everyone equal and sets a loving enviroment for everyone. If you want your child to enjoy his/ her last 5 years in school, BHS is the way to go. English or Afrikaans, they cover it all.
Thoughts of the school after 2 years.
This school mostly focuses on people who are the best in academics and sports. And yet when It comes to sports the school mostly supports Rugby and hockey. Which I find unfair cause we a have lots of other sports as well that they don't pay attention to. I've seen how white kids get away with racist comments and teachers walk past them after hearing it. And they choose to ignore it... Not all teachers are helpful and most of them are just completely rude. Intact I remember that one of the teacher's gave their class the wrong things to learn for the exams and their way of apologize for them failing is by giving each of them a small piece of chocolate.
Do not send your child here
This is a racist School. And no one should send their child here .This school allows believe behaviour. because the school I've become the most depressed I've ever been. don't send your child here. Just don't I wouldn't wish it on anyone not even my worst enemy.
Brackenfell high
I am a learner of this school and I enjoy every moment at Brackenfell High but in class from 10-12 grades. All the classes that are subjects are mixed English and Afrikaans and they treat the English learners like they aren't in the class and its gets harder to do well if you don't understand what they are teaching you.
Racist school
Straight up racist school staff!
Tries their best
The school is strict on neatness which a lot of my peers hated(mainly students that were lazy and had no manners) but I thought it was good. I do however I think a lot of attention is shown towards the high achievers. You could be the most caring and 'go the extra mile' student but still won't be recognized. I never had any bad experiences only being that they would rank student from high to low achieving according to classes i.e: e1 (high achieving) to e4(low achieving).. I was in an e4 class. Other than that I had school counseling when I was going through a rough time which was very helpful. If you aren't disruptive and respect your teachers you shouldn't have a problem with any of them.
Proud to be a Brakkie !
I'm a learner at this school and wouldn't go to any other. They do not discrimanate, teach in both languages and are strict on discipline. You can be yourself and reach your best in sports and academics. Teachers are always helpful. This is definately the school in the community for the community. Will always be a proud Brakkie !
School is horrible to their learners
If you want your child to have a mental illness send your child here. The school CARES only about money And it appearance to the public. Learners and learners issues are pointless coz they don't care and never will. Honestly the worst school
Send your child here at own risk.
This is a good school... if you are a white afrikaans person. The school cares way too much about neatness. Teachers will teach in Afrikaans for 95% of a period. Only very few of the teachers are ACTUALLY english, so the quality of the english is poor. Management puts alot of unnecessary pressure on the teachers which clearly shows and which makes the teachers seem unfair.
The school barely listens to the opinions of the students, and there are only 1 or 2 non-white teachers. Students get in trouble for unnecessary things. The school kicks students out after school because "we dont care about you guys, we only care about the principle not getting in trouble" - A direct quote from someone working at the school.
The school barely listens to the opinions of the students, and there are only 1 or 2 non-white teachers. Students get in trouble for unnecessary things. The school kicks students out after school because "we dont care about you guys, we only care about the principle not getting in trouble" - A direct quote from someone working at the school.
Everything wrong about Brackenfell HS.
The school is a decent one in terms of the facilities, the education system itself is as good as its allowed to be.
But there has always been subtle discrimination against certain individuals (mainly pocs) as well as profiling. There is also classism in the school, for example the A1,2,&3 and E1 classes will be treated with special treatment as though they are a superior option.
The school also has rules about neatness that make no sense at all, they make it as though a child's dress code or hairstyle will stop them from learning.
The sports (especially rugby) will often be over sponsored, while the creative departments struggle to get updated textbooks, or even textbooks at all.
It is said that the governing body controls everything about the school, therefore learners cannot freely express their grievances without looking like mere children.
But there has always been subtle discrimination against certain individuals (mainly pocs) as well as profiling. There is also classism in the school, for example the A1,2,&3 and E1 classes will be treated with special treatment as though they are a superior option.
The school also has rules about neatness that make no sense at all, they make it as though a child's dress code or hairstyle will stop them from learning.
The sports (especially rugby) will often be over sponsored, while the creative departments struggle to get updated textbooks, or even textbooks at all.
It is said that the governing body controls everything about the school, therefore learners cannot freely express their grievances without looking like mere children.
Brackenfell high school
Hair rules are way too strict, most teachers are kind and reasonable yet they will only teach in one language and tell the learners to ask them to translate which they sometimes even complain when you do ask, the school puts a lot of pressure on the teachers and it's noticeable, outside environment is reasonable, indoor environment is also reasonable, some staff seem overworked, punishment for minor things rather than more offensive things.
Brackenfell High, might be the school for you.
I have a love/hate relationship with this school. This school discriminates against POC, mainly black. We aren’t allowed to wear our Afros, or have dreads. We aren’t allowed to have certain braids or wear clips in our hair. There are white students with purple and red hair that don’t get harassed or get told that they cannot attend certain activities because of their hair. This school handles bullying and racism in unserious ways. This school doesn’t really care about the minority UNLESS you play sports. If you want to go to this school, make sure you’re rich, white and do sports. Academics is good. The teachers aren’t too bad either.
Altyd n Brakkie
I came into the school not knowing anyone but very quickly felt comfortable and welcome. Throughout my five years there I had a handful of incredible teachers that had such a great impact on my life and career choice. Great sports programs and great outreach programs. The school made it enjoyable with events like 40 days , inter house and cool assemblies with special guests. I am not a science graduate and I can definitely say that my high school helped me get there academically and with emotional support from my teachers. The school has a great spirit of pride and to this day I still wear my blazer with pride when going to the rugby games.
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A list of things over the years that has been swept under the rug:
The amounts of sexual assault allegations against students, sexual harassment will be reported to the school but nothing will would be done students that are accused wouldn't even get expelled. In my personal experience a group of students reported this one guy that played rugby for the school his punishment was he couldn't play matches for the school he could still practice rugby and still was praised he didn't even got detention. And when one learner reported him the school told them they have to have witnesses to the sexual harassment telling them if they don't have other people witnessing this behavior they wouldn't believe them. There is other allegations of students from the first team rugby sexually harassing youngest students from other schools laughing has been looked into or anything done about it. I'm sure if you ask any girl in brackenfell high School they can tell you a sexual harassment story from other students in the school.
Racism is so normalized amongst the students in the school. Everyone is racist to each other. It might have gotten a bit better over the years but there's still a lot of racism in the school and not enough punishments or given for being racist.
Mental health is not valued at the school at all. This school will drain every ounce of happiness out of you. The workload is a lot for the students and can get stressful over time. Support services is understaffed and overworked there isn't a professional therapist to help students out this school has a lot of students that struggle with mental health I'm one of them. Support services can't keep up with the amount of kids that need help and often will forget about the students that are at risk. The school needs to provide more support for their students.
The shocking amount of CCTV cameras in this school is crazy. They spend so much money on all those cameras just for the real problem students to have no consequences. You always feel on edge with all the cameras on you , they told us it was for our safety but with all those cameras it makes me feel unsafe and uncomfortable to be watched like that.
Favoriteism is a real problem in our school. They always favorite the kids that always cause the most problems and ruin everything for everyone else example bullies and just some disrespectful kids with no manners. Those kids never have any consequences.
Hiring unprofessional people. The school hired a new LO teacher last year I was in his class he constantly promoted gambling and gave tips on how to win the gamble games which I thought was very unprofessional of him. He used to talk about very inappropriate personal experiences to his class while teaching. He marked our test incredibly wrong because he was hung over and the entire class basically failed because he didn't mark the test correctly. They at least fired him but I don't think he should have been hired in the first place.
Spending over half a million rand on flood lights that has been used only a handful of times. That money could have gone to a better support system for the school.
If you don't play rugby you are a nothing to the school. The school only prioritize rugby no cultural or creative activities. The only credit there rugby teams. They like to think we are the best rugby team ever but we are in fact quite a bad rugby team we lose almost every match and if we win it's against a weaker school than us.
There is so much more I could expose about this school this is just scratching the surface.
Thank you for reading my review
Don't send your kids here.