Pukekohe High School

Terrible, and very inconsistent management, whether that be of teachers, or of the staff. Teachers are a hit or miss, and generally do not fulfill any personal requests of yours, especially if relevant to mental health, or actually help contribute to academic success. Instead, they usually focus on the good students, and ignore the ones they cannot control. Staff-wise, there are news about it - staff member disclosing sensitive information, not raising the pride flag... even when celebrating student academic success, there will still be mistakes resulting in messy, unorganised prizegivings with some students who either aren't supposed to be there, or student names not being enlisted thus consequently missing out on the recognition.
School spirit is practically non-existent (it has severely declined over the last few years), despite recent efforts to reignite them. Even students who first come to this school are immediately made aware of the poor environment, and are conditioned with attitudes not befitting a good education. Plenty of students bunk. Uniform regulations are lax. Homeroom teachers are useless. Bathroom and classroom environment are not good.
However the school's sports, music and art faculties are good, and all do considerably well.
Some students are actually rather good, but a shame they are attending here and are much, much better off pursuing a school that academically succeeds and recognises those talents. Do not attend this school if you don't want your potential to be wasted.

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Honestly would not recommend sending your child there. My friend is currently going there and they had nearly gone to jail because of that school. The teacher's there are rubbish, the counselors suck as well ok so obviously not all teachers and counselors suck there but most do. The friend of mine was influenced to do stuff such as Vaping smoking and snorting marijuana they were also influenced to steal stuff. Yes they may be hanging out with the wrong people but teachers and other staff don't do much about the vaping and marijuana problems. The bullying problems are threw the roof there the amount of kids that have gained mental health problems they might of had or not have had and those mental health problems may have worsen over the years they spend there. Oh I'm sure the police are sick of the amount of times they've been called to the school because of fights that the teachers can't handle themselves. Not every fight needs police involved I just think the teachers are either to lazy or scared to deal with the fights themselves. The uniform problems: Teachers (Male and female) want the young girls wearing skirts they think are appropriate and comfortable, when in reality the girls don't think there comfortable and they aren't comfortable wearing them. The uniform is way overpriced.

The teachers are lazy and do the bare minimum of their job. They either have no backbone or are constantly screaming at the kids, some don't even know what they are doing. Bullying is a huge thing here and it is happening constantly, the only good thing about the school is that it is very LGBTQIA+ inclusive

Some teachers aren’t the best, with once my class having to resit a test as we had all worse results than from last year. There are a few amazing teachers there and if you are lucky enough to get them as your teacher you will have a great time in that class. They have a bully problem. They have an okay canteen but the prices have been rising quite a lot. They do lie a bit about what they do, they say the students are getting extension but that occurs so little that it is confusing why they even mention it. Many classes are run down with one not provided with wheel chair access.

The staff aren’t great, I’ve been there for 4 years and in that amount of time there’s like 4 or 5 teachers out of the majority that I really do love as they are so kind. The priorities aren’t right, they stress about uniform when they should be stressing over how poor the teaching skills are. I went to a dean three times in year 9 about getting bullied and asked her to contact my mum so they could sort something out and she never did and never questioned me or asked if it had resolved, she just left it and acted like it didn’t exist. There was one counsellor I adored because she was amazing but she left recently, but the first counsellor I saw in year 9 dumped her personal life issues on me instead of helping me, the next one I saw in year 11 I think it was, she’d rush me to leave and ask me to leave early as she had ‘more important people to see’ so that was cool. The new principle seems really cool though :)