Manor Lakes P-12 College

I was at manor lakes for 13 years of my life, I watched it grow and fall, the first 7 years of my schooling was great, then mr.warner came and the downfall started there. now we are understaffed and all original staff have left because of the treatment of the school. I stayed in contact with a lot of teachers who left the school and I heard of workplace bullying and workplace sexual harassment, heard this straight from the teachers who attended this school and the full stories of what happend. In year 6 we had a student who would Harass all the girls in our class, constant emails and constant harassment to get romantically involved with him, when us sevreal girls told teachers nothing happend to help the situation. 4 years pass and the whole year 10 cohort gets a anonymous email of ‘*STUDENTS NAME is a rapist* (I have screenshots off this whole email). It was the student we reported 4 years ago, it had proof and went into exstensive detail of his harassment and suspected rape allegations in this email. We have no idea how the school handeled this situation but the student who was accused of this was allowed to keep attending all the way until graduation. But the point is what could of happened if they addressed the little things earlier when we reported it rather than waiting until it turns into RAPE allegations? tara haytt the VCE coridinator trauma dumps to her class, sharing personal and triggering stories to her class all the time, we heard about her daughter mental state and it was so triggering. she would talk about the students she hated behind their backs and tell us (her class) confidential and personal details of students. She PURPOSELY humiliates students she does not like INFRONT of the biggest group she can find. When I confronted her about telling the class confidential things she denied it, then changed her story and then to finish it said “well I’m sorry if that upset you” instead of a real apology or a behaviour change, this confrontation happend INFRONT of a assistant principal and many year levels coordinators, and instead of her getting in trouble they apologised to her on my behalf bc I confronted her of unprofessional and inappropriate behaviour. Tara is rude and students are either scared of her, or love her because of the ‘jokes’ she makes. At the 2020 graduation she said in the grad speech something along the lines of ‘I know students are scared of me’ but then when I was in a meeting with her, my mum and Tracy moore (the former careers leader) she said no students are scared of her and she’s very approachable, which if you ask most students at manorlakes, they will tell you the complete opposite. It is horrid that she is respected and holds such great responsibility amongst students when she dosent even care about kids. Let’s talk about how I was treated as a student with mental Illness and a disability. In year 9 I was going through it, i was very suicidal and went through with plans a great amount of times in 2019. I sat in the back of the classroom on the floor, long sleeves always, would go days without talking, I was constantly on drugs in class, I was self harming in the bathrooms and ‘no one noticed’. I had a teacher accidentally pull down my sleeve and when he saw my wrist he did nothing but walk away, I had a teacher say to me “you always wear long sleeves’ and hinting towards self harm but was always too scared to ask or even ask if I was okay. They are mandated reporters yet nothing happened. When i went to camp it was the most ‘help’ I got, I had an eating disorder at the time and I had a panic attack bc of it, they tried to help by sitting with me when eating but yet again they are teachers not therapist, it was the time in my life where I felt the most supported by teachers with mental illness. Although after camp this was never addressed, no one was told and it was never talked about again and I’m still struggling with my Ed, I always imagine what if they actually told someone and I got help lol. I was once sitting alone in sport and my teacher came up to me and told me to sit with someone and when I refused he broke down and started screaming at me saying “I did nothing to you why do you treat me like this” and kept going on and on, once he left he then stormed back and said “you know what! I don’t want to even see your face’ so he made me leave and didn’t tell me where to go. I went to smod (student management team) cus I thought it was the right thing to too, and as soon as I walk in miss lipreno (the acting assistant principal at the time) started blaming me for it and started bringing up other incidents that happened that went related. When I had a panic attack I said ‘you guys knew this was gonna happen’ and I got told ‘well it’s your fault because you don’t get help’, I said nothing because that hurt so bad, in that exact moment I was on a waiting list just waiting there was nothing I could do but wait. I had my textiles teacher, Larissa just come up to me and with no reasoning or context just asks ‘are you disabled or something”. the school dosent understand that just because your giving a student with a disability/ mental illness some extra help dosent been your making it ‘unfair’ to other students. This school sucks. I could write so much
More, I wrote a 4 page essay on this school and when I handed it in I got sent to the counsellors office because of “what I’ve been through”. The school I’m with rn knows everything that manor lakes collage has done and has supported me and validated me in knowing the way that I was treated and how other students were treated was not okay. anyway please don’t send your child here this school gave me hella trauma lol

Smells bad and is bad teachers also bad and canteen prices inflated asf

It is a shit school