Centre for Academic and Personal Excellence - Medicine Hat, Alberta

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This is honestly the worst school ever. You're being robbed of your money.

This school barely gets funded by the government, which means that you are paying the school a ridiculous amount of money for the worst education.

Multiple teachers have sworn at students, are incredibly inappropriate and immature, they don't care about students and their well beings at all, they encourage rumours and drama, and more. There is clear favouritism from the staff towards students, and their own children and family. Yes, they put students of staff into classrooms with their parents. The gym teachers are also quite creepy towards the students, specifically the female students.

I have watched multiple students be yelled at over not understanding assignments, or even asking to go to the bathroom.

They give out term exams every November, March, and June. That don't do anything besides stress out your child to the extreme.

Not to mention the A and B classes which is the dumbest thing ever. They separate your children based on their ability to answer questions. They say it is based on the way you think, but everyone knows thats a lie. It is completely based off of how smart or dumb you are.

If you do anything wrong just a little bit, you get sent to the Vice Principal's office with a yellow slip.

They also give students uniforms. Which is the ugliest shade of green you can think off. With black pants, socks, and shoes. What is up with that? You're removing any of the students ability to express themselves through fashion.

The lack of unprofessional behaviour from the staff, lack of proper education, and lack of being able to express yourself is ridiculous. Please send your kid to any school but here. You are making a huge mistake.

Michael A.

One of the, if not, the worst school that I have ever sent my son to. The building looks like an old church. The gym is around 13 meters by 7 meters; its walls are bricks with forgotten rusty nails in them. My son fell into the unpadded brick wall head first and suffered from a concussion. This gym looks that it hasn't been renovated since the 1990’s. The basketball rims are broken and put upside down. Im only mentioning this to share the lack of professionalism and organization this school has. Cape school is the only school in Medicine Hat with a uniform policy. I heard the principle demand for the OLD UNIFORMS from the former students. She then attempted to sell them to the new students through Facebook (check the posts, seriously). Not only is she a COMPLETE CHEAPSKATE, but she is completely biased as well. My son got punched by her nephew in the face and wasn't punished at all. Instead my son got criticized for “Angering the student, who he should have known better because he is very emotional". The school struggles with disciplining the pupils. The education is poor. The classes are split into two, the A class and the B class. The A class consisted of students from grades 6,7, 8 and 9 while the B class consists of 8 and 9s. The B class takes THE GRADE 7 curriculum while the A class takes the grade 9 curriculum.When I was asked why that is so, I was told “Its just based of IQ and learning abilities and your son does not meet those standards; therefore he could not be in the A class”. My son was not even offered an IQ test when he first went to the school. Obviously her nephew and her son are in the A class even though I heard from a lot of pupils that they were not “the brightest people” in the world. Oh and did I mention that the principle and the superintendent taught the grade 9 class last year? The vice-principal is teaching the grade nines this year. Doesn’t it seem that nobody wants to work there? The school is obviously low on budget. For example, they have a team with no jerseys (they used pennies and scotch taped numbers on the back). On top of that, the only field trips they go to are to loins park and the esplanade (they had to walk cause they couldn't afford buses). The lack of organization and planning this school has amazes me. It blows my mind that a school with poor education, lack of organization, rude behaviour, bullying, and complete bias is still running. What fascinates me more is that parents are ACTUALLY sending their children there and paying extra fees for it. My son suffered from a few mental problems when he was sent to it. After he left, his illness started getting better. My question to the parents that are sending their child to ‘Centre of Academic and Personal Excellence’ is “What are you doing to your kids childhood? Do you want him/her to become an unsuccessful, uneducated human with lack of manners?” You are being robbed of your money. I would go to as far as saying that CAPE school is the equivalent of residential schools but in the 21 century.

Dylan

the school didnt have enough room for people when i started going here so our classroom was the basement of a nearby church, which had around 60 students from 2 grades in it. after a bunch of kids left i was still forced to stay in a class with 2 grades mixed into one class. i also leaked the wifi password to my friends and they took my laptop and threatened to call the cops. they sent me here because they pay counsellors to refer gifted kids here, when in reality it is no better than public school with about a quarter of the socialization and double the idiot savants. instilled a deep seated hatred for authority in me, as they hand out "yellow slips" almost as much as homework.
at least they gave me an ipad to look at furry pr0nz on though lol.
(they told me they monitored ipad activity, which was a lie as the school is run by inept BBWs)

Utyane

awful. ruining my mental health. the teachers are so dramatic and disrespectful to students. got me in trouble because i sneezed. the students here are awful too. they are so inappropriate and sick. we cant have any freedom here. if it gets to the point where me and other students are frightened and scared to even enter the school, its a problem. please do not take your kids here. i am special needs and they dont give me any extra help. oh, i cant understand math due to my dyslexia and adhd? pay more attention. thats all they say. the teachers are awful. the new school is a great building but thats besides the point. dont enroll your kids to this school. if you want your kids to hurt themselves and have bad self esteem while also having bad grades, take them here. otherwise, save your kids.

Ty H.

As a former member of cape I can tell u that they do nothing about bulling. I was bullies for 3 years by the same person and nothing happened about it. The gym is so small, and everything is dirty. Nearly every gym class I had to go was my eye out because I got dust in it. And the teachers were mean. My gym class was made up off 4/5/6s so it got so cramped. From what I heard the basketball coach has no clue of what to do in 2018. Bet everyone misses last years coach. This year they had to duct tape numbers onto the jerseys, scroll down in these reviews and you will see a picture of it. It is recommend not to send your kid here.

Cynthia M.

We are truly happy with this school. My daughters academic special needs are being met and she is doing fantastic. Caring teachers and staff. Small community feel. I will be happy to continue bringing both of my children up in this school.

deleted U.

I’ve had like five friends who’ve gone here and they all hate it so much. You have to wear these disgusting uniforms which don’t give children freedom to express themselves and the teachers are rude from what I’ve heard. I have a best friend, brand new to the school from September for grade Seven, he went to my elementary school last’s year and I honestly miss him. To be fair, every school Medicine Hat is pretty awful. At Alexandra you can get your parents called for sneezing but other then that it’s pretty chill. This school is just disgusting to me and I feel bad for anyone who has to go there.

ravenclaw Q.

We switched to a different school this year and the positive change in my child since leaving CAPE is incredible. I feel like there were a lot of false promises. We are told things as parents that are untrue. Such as CAPE being the only school in town with every day gym class , untrue. Also that they can provide " the same if not more" supports and services for special needs children, again I found this to be untrue. In conflict resolution I was told a lot of yes's with no follow through. All in all I found a lot of talk with very little of it coming into true form. I joined CAPE as a parent with enthusiasm, joining parent councel and even sitting on the board of directors as vice chair. I was excited for this school which promised greatness and left greatly disappointed. At CAPE you pay extra for less. Less field trips than public school, no music and less supports and services. Also when we left, CAPE lost or withheld my child's personal, private documentation. Which I view as a serious privacy issue. When trying to discuss the issue with the school, I was first told that it was in my child's school file. When I personally went through the file and it still wasn't there, they then told me that they couldn't recall if they had ever received it. The situation was handled badly and unprofessionally and I was treated as though losing my child's private, personal information, was no big deal.