Hyde Park High School

This is a horrible school. If you care and love your children, do not send them here. This school is full of smokers and rude teachers. If you a school/ teacher’s favourite you get away with anything. If not the teachers single you out and pick on you. I hate this school and honestly wish I never came here, I highly do not recommend this school to anyone!!

There's alot of bullying happening in that school girl's body shaming each other boys comparing body's .I really don't enjoy going to that school

I am a parent to a learner who has schooled in Hyde Park Highschool. I would start of by saying it has the potential to be a good school but unfortunately Hyde Park Highschool does not take such interest. Starting off with education, the education system isn't really top-tier as the school claims so, instead the curriculum is good but the teachers don't provide quality education to the learners. The teachers are lazy and constantly sitting on their phones instead of teaching. My son would come home every week with huge work loads which most of he didn't understand because the teachers don't teach. I would feel sorry for him, i contacted the school several times to check on my son's progress, until the school kept blocking my calls and emails. The teachers make learners write 3 tests almost everyday. The teachers care more about the learner's appearance than academic performance. I understand it's been a really difficult year but instead of punishing young girls for wearing leggings where else you could punish the boys for sexual assault on school grounds! There is an embarrassing amount of thieves, drinkers and drug dealers. I remember coming in for a meeting, i smelt weed coming from the matric corridor. Learners physically fight everyday, teachers do nothing. The office administrator is racist especially to POC. Hyde Park High claims to help learners develop and "prepares them for the world" unfortunately those claims are purely false, the school teaches our children to smoke, drink, and do drugs. The school bathrooms are neat and clean. Teachers sometimes miss lessons to sit in the teacher's lounge drinking coffee. There are teachers who swear at learners for the littlest thing such as forgetting their books. The school doesn't provide a balance of fun and work, for learners and instead keeps learners working everyday even on the weekends. The school has a handful of racist and homophobic teachers. This school does not care about treating learners as individuals.It is racist, sexist and treats their students unfairly. Only students who are teachers favourties get treated nicely. If you aren’t a teachers favourite they will go out of their way just to make your school years a living hell, not to mention their rules are outdated and most of them are purely ridiculous. Some students can’t even go to the bathroom without one of the security guards following them into the bathroom thinking they going to do stuff, talk about no privacy at all. In the school magazine and on all social media’s they make it seem like they are the best school with fair discipline and a perfect school in general, they THINK they the best school in South Africa but in reality, they catfish all the parents. They give unnecessary punishments for stuff that isn’t even relevant, the teachers will give Detentions for useless stuff e.g if your jacket/Blazer isn’t on during a hot day you get detention. I could go on and on, with sporting it is compulsory for Gr8s to swim even if they don’t know how to, they are forced to swim in a race, that is not the way schools should promote sports. The school doesn't care about the learner's mental health,the school criticizes learners for being homosexual, depressed and a POC.

The teachers help a lot, some are rude like ** ******and another teacher.
The learners are shit😂😂😂
They flirt with our girlz then leave us in the dark.
They don't back you up
Mara the school is mooi overall but sometimes there's unecessary drama.

When I first came to Hyde Park high, I was told that the school is open minded, it is a place that I can grow as an individual, but that was unfortunately not the case, the teachers pick on certain students and they barely pay attention to the rest of us in the middle, alot of smokers & drinkers, teachers care more about how you look than your academic performance.

I regret going to this school. I wont recommend anyone to take their children there

hyde park is one wack school , these teachers are ew everything’s ew at this point , the teachers are so DISRESPECTFUL , we be so nice to them and they always choose violence , always ! they also don’t know how to solve issues they always quick to jump and never finish problems between student or teachers and it’s always ‘the students are wrong ‘bye .

Honestly Hyde park is the worst. I honestly can’t stand it anymore. People in that school including the teachers are so harsh and they tent to bully or even harass you. It is stereotypical and rude and they never treat people as an individual it’s always a group. We as children were supposed to grow as a person not as a group we were supposed to be learning right from wrong not being force fed information and throwing it all up on a piece of paper. The school also says that they don’t have money and so on but the school itself is horrid. But the teachers lounge is top of their priorities. I can never stay. I’m glad I’m leaving hyde park high school and moving next year

Really bad school. Bad teachers, school refuses to do anything about the bad teachers even when they are complained about, putting education in jeopardy. School does not do anything about theft and constant drug scandals.