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Villa Maria College
High School · State · Christchurch
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EVERYTHING WRONG WITH VILLA MARIA
Very good school
Excellent school with good curriculum for kids wanting to play sports explore other activities.
Worst school ever
Absolutely terrible worst school in the world. Do not give a flying f about anyone’s mental health or feelings. Care more about makeup and jewellery than their own learning. Worst teachers ever pick on students my daughter would come home everyday crying for hours which then I made the decision to let her leave. Many other students leave the school which is no surprise considering how disrespectful they treat the girls there.
Villa Maria College.
Throughout my schooling life here, I have been faced with many different challenges and the school doesn’t do anything to help. They say they nurture the young women at the school but I beg to differ. When I was bullied, excluded, and facing many different teen battles, the teachers brush it under the carpet. When I was being picked on, I confided in my head of house. She told me that I don’t know what is going on in their life, and never followed it up. I was left to figure everything out myself and had no support which was hard and I often didn’t go to school because of this. Some teachers are lovely but I think the main problem is the school rules as-well as the head of the school (principal, deputy etc). I forgot to mention, no makeup, jewellery or tattoos are allowed. I understand this is school rules however they say that everyone is different so we should express this but if I’m being honest, they want us to all be the same. Feels like a literal prison/cult.
Villa maria
Bad teachers, absolutely awful girls, ** ******* is absolutely awful.
Extremely not it
They act like they care about students they really don’t they have strict rules making us all the same like a cult they don’t let us have individuality at all they seem like they care about different culture other than white but that’s not the case they try to include the Māori language but then ask a girl to take a ponamu off make that make sense also they butcher the language and don’t even try! Would not recommend this school to anyone
homophobic
the school is extremely homophobic. not only do some of the girls openly express that they think all gay people should die but the teachers do too. one teacher even pushed a girl over for being gay. i am not gay but when my gay friends complained they were told not to worry about it since the teacher was just “in a bad mood”
The real villa Maria
the school is bad with dealing with bullies, a girl brought an acid tab to school (a class A drug) and the school did nothing about it. The school isn’t right for most people’s learning style, as they push you do to subjects that you are not interested in. The teachers don’t actually care about the well-being of students, when they’re upset about grades, the teachers do not care. The schooling is absolutely appalling. We are not allowed any individuality, it is like they are making us all be the exact same.
21 Peer Street, 8041, Christchurch
Deborah Brosnahan
03 348 4165
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I am a student here... and I can say from PERSONAL experience that this school not only fails through academics, but also through hygiene.
the bathrooms are a DISASTER, their are feminine products ( provided FREE by the government ) being ABUSED, they are thrown around stuck to ceilings, and in the toilets. their are paper towels and toilet paper, EVERYWHERE.
In the bathrooms people, VAPE, CONGROGATE and BULLY others, to the point people are even SCARED of going to the bathroom... this is NOT CATHOLIC BEHAVIOUR.
their has been an INCIDENT, at this school VERY recently... the hygiene issue at villa, has gotten so HORRENDOUS, that sigh... people have been gluing toilet seats shut, breaking them entirely, and throwing toilet paper onto ceilings.
That's NOT even the worst of it.. the swimming changing rooms, are INFESTED with bugs and moths. and people URINATING in the changing rooms. this is UNACEPTABLE so many students already HATE having to swim and now we have to put up with urination in those CLASTROPHOBIC changing rooms.
It upsets me to say this but in TERM ONE of 2025, TERM ONE, their has been an incident so APPALING its DISGUSTS me to my very core.
SOMONE SMEARED FECES ALL OVER THE BATHROOMS.. and if that wasn't bad enough IT HAPPENED ON 3 SEPERATE OCCASIONS. WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
how they even did this is a mystery to me, was it was their own feces, or their friends.. did they even use gloves...
I am in shock, and feel nothing but remorse... for the poor cleaners who have to put up with these TOXIC conditions.
MOVING ON from the god awful condition of this school. theirs are so many others things wrong. since we're an all girls schools their is so much DRAMA.
peoples NUDES are spread around like WILD FIRE, its a TOXIC environment. with DRAMA after DRAMA. the juniors are the WORST, they are loud rude, dumb, and incompetent. all gossiping together and are so entitled, thinking they run the school. they leave mess everywhere, and are just the worst people to interact with.
NOONE takes the education seriously, test conditions are INSANE, with people blatantly chatting and cheating with classmates. All the work is FREAKING EDUCATION PERFECT... their is no creativity, or tasks to spark interested in learning.
Everyone uses CHATGPT and some teachers even encourage it. A SHOCKING majority of the students lack basic awareness of the world, and education. Students play ROBLOX games in class, and film themselves 24/7 on their computer while doing makeup. Even with the phone ban, no one cares, with students scrolling on TikTok, or snapchat, in the middle of class.
Their are good things about this school, I have found genuinely amazing funny people in this school. and not a day goes by where its boring or nothing happens. their is a lot of focus on academic work however it is not enforced and the quality is severally lacking from students, however if u truly try with the assignments their is a lot you can learn.
I HOPE you take this into consideration when deciding whether or not to send your child to villa.