Berwald Oxenstierna
1/5
The worst school I have ever attended to date. This is speaking from my experience as a child, in which not only the students, but the staff as well would single out myself and my brother with nothing but cruel and unusual intent. I attended this school for just under five years. And through those five years I was shown no kindness, I was treated as if I was nothing but dirt beneath their feet, and looked at as if I was less than. The teachers would embarrass me knowingly in front of my class, my peers, and my classmates would come together under the common interest of inflicting emotional harm and distress. Framing me as a liar, trash from the street, an illiterate and a thief; the teachers never tried to help me, be it academically or in situations that left me distressed and scared in their facility. My most innocent questions and attempts at making kindly with the teachers were thwarted, brushed off.
Keep in mind I was only seven years old in the beginning. It was never explained to me why I was singled out. It was never explained to me why the teachers called me and treated me as if I was incapable of the most basic of social interactions and work. This is back when Mrs. Lake, Mrs. Jenson, Mr. Coutou, Mr. Revee, Mrs. Meek, Mrs. Fogels, Mrs. Kingston, Mr. Alexander and Mr. Whirley were all staff. The former two, Mrs. Lake and Mrs. Jenson were atrocious. At the time I never understood that how they treated me was wrong, that how they segregated me from the other students and kept their contact with me at a minimal was, in fact, wrong. I just thought, maybe the other kids were somehow more deserving than I was, of being treated with basic human respect.
My brother, who is frightfully intelligent and introverted, they classified as autistic. Without any proper diagnosis or background check on their behalf, they concluded he had mental health problems based on how shy he was. So he was segregated as well. The teachers harassed him, showed him that he was worth less than the other students and weren't so shy as to simply do it behind his back. They never granted him, or myself this courtesy. As I said toward the beginning, they were happy to humiliate us in front of others, without telling us why, without helping us understand why they wanted to make us feel unsafe and uneasy in their school. They dubbed him as a vicious bully, incapable of comprehending the work they gave him, despite his completing and submitting the work, for the most part, on time. Teachers would watch as he was bullied, and watched him evolve into a much more aggressive child, who gave the students what they offered him as a manner of self defence for him and myself.
The principal offered no help to my brother or I, not even at the desperate request of my mother. No matter how fiercely she pursued help from the board, she too was rejected and treated as if she wasn't deserving of respect. All of this because she was a single parent. Just to clarify, she is the most hard-working parent who gave, and still gives my brother and I the most she can, which is a lot. She should have been shown more respect than being told to simply, "Accept it, because that's how children act." Never, did they ever regard their teachers, not even when I myself, as an eight year old, came crying for help due to the lack of fairness and proper treatment from anyone in this sub-par facility.
Don't enrol your children here, unless you wish to give them the most hellish educational experience you can offer them. They will come out emotionally scarred. There is no such thing as a safe day on the yard, no respect in their classrooms, and no protection or support to any hurting child, not unless their parents hold a social status above 'Single Parent.' You would regret it, just as I, my mother, and my brother do.
