St Bede's College,

156 Bignell Road, Bentleigh East VIC 3165

"The students there are plain horrible. In sports all they do is play dirty. In one sport occasion, I experienced an accident where a Saint bedes student knocked out another student in Whiteftiars college and they were out cold for 40 minutes. The saint bedes student didn't even apologize, but laugh. In hockey, saint bedes injured, hurt, and swore at us. The teachers teach them wrong, and I wouldn't suggest putting your child into this horrible school."

"I attended here (St James College at the time) back between years 1997 and 2000. I had a terrible experience at this school that failed me with my past experiences and left me with mental scars for life. I was physically and verbally bullied nearly everyday and on a few occasions became very angry and violent because the school would not help me with me being bullied, so the only way for me to feel better about what to do was at that time my father taught me to hit back only at school because back in year 1962 my father was bullied at his school as a child and he broke another students nose as payback because the teachers would not sort out the problems. My father did not get into any trouble for being provoked. Year 8 and Year 10 were my worst years at this school, I never received any support from any of my teachers for my suffering. Very disappointed with my childhood experience."

"Horrible school, rude students, rude teachers, lots of abuse towards students with disabilities. Threatening teachers. Illegal activities. Absolutely horrible toxic environment. Toilets are absolutely discusting. Everyone treats you like rubbish. Never felt so useless in my life. Teachers didn't care about what students do in the grounds. Students are scared for life is there are around the wrong group. Taught false information. Made students cry. Should be investigated and should be bulldozed down to make was for something more useful such as tip."

"School is school, but before this was merged with St Bede's I went to school here. It's difficult to recommend as this school only goes up to Year 10. Although the transition to the Mentone campus may be easy, it's not easy especially for locals in the area. I won't ponder on about that, though. Let me just write down my own experience. I'm neurodivergent, and this school wasn't the place for me. I often saw bullying happening and nothing happening, and being complacent in bullying carries on in life as I've seen, so why is this taking place in a place where people are in that time of their life most important for development? This needs to be drilled into people's minds and dealt with promptly. We don't want a following from what we've heard from other private schools in Melbourne... I also saw a fellow friend trying to receive the support he needed since he had autism and learning difficulties, and didn't receive ample support. He left I think at the end of Y8. I also needed support but it was really difficult as the higher level support person was, ill-tempered at best, but also was lazy. Always on their iPad doing something and not really paying attention. I wish I got paid to stand around and browse social media. It was good coming later to the year, classes and people were known well enough to have quite balanced classes. It's good to keep and remove a lot of teachers, and I especially miss all of the arts / music / drama teachers, they were always absolutely lovely to just have a chat with - along with other teachers, although it's also been quite a few years! Overall, there was good and bad parts of attending school here. It wasn't good for me, even after having access to the psychologist and a little bit of study support. I would most likely recommend the surrounding public schools if you need more help in that regard. I also hope they've actually moved from using iPads and tablets all together..."

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